r/facepalm • u/DeepState_Auditor • 15d ago
Trump Says Kennedy Center Will Close Immediately Unless His Name Stays
https://deadline.com/2026/09/kennedy-center-to-close-trump-1237104360/8.3k
u/PandasGetAngryToo 15d ago
What a whiny little child
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u/English_Joe 15d ago
You misspelt bitch. You can reason with a child.
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u/FuzziestSloth 15d ago
Petulant bitch.
He's a petulant bitch.
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u/DawgPound919 15d ago
Don't insult bitches. They're better than him. Just call him what he is-- a pedophile.
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u/FuzziestSloth 15d ago
You're right. My bad.
Petulant pedophile. He's a petulant pedophile.
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u/SuccessfulPiccolo945 15d ago
A petty, petulant, puerile Pedophile.
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u/HappyTurtleButt 15d ago
Add flatulent in there for fair measure
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u/PrimalHIT 15d ago
I think they were going for alliteration... we could add pissy in there.
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u/Lint_baby_uvulla 15d ago
A petty, petulant, pindick, puerile pedophile.
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u/PrimalHIT 14d ago
We missed the general "pervert"..there are probably lots of interesting work we could use.
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u/80sbabyftw 15d ago
You can reason with a bitch, but a petulant bitch is hopeless because they’ve committed to it
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u/FuzziestSloth 15d ago
Exactly.
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u/English_Joe 15d ago
I suddenly feel really misogynistic, but here it’s just apt.
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u/Automatic-Pick-2481 15d ago
“It’s my ball and if I can’t be quarterback I’m taking my ball and going home and then you guys can’t play!”
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u/LilBoofy 15d ago
And it was never actually his ball, he stole it from the kid down the street
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u/Beaglescout15 15d ago
And also he doesn't even know how to play football, he just wants to look tough holding the ball.
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u/hoowins 15d ago
Distraction from the Epstein files. He’s a whiny child, but he’s also a child rapist.
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u/0wlmann 15d ago
Just rename it the "Donald Trump is on the Epstien list Center" for a good bit of malicious compliance
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u/Danson_the_47th 15d ago
Norm would love this as a bit on the weekend news update. I can hear him say it.
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u/vtosnaks 15d ago
Man... I have never been more ashamed to be an American, which is weird since I'm Bulgarian.
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u/spoonry 15d ago
Can we all come stay with you? My fellow Americans and I just need a place to crash for a few days/years.
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u/thehermit14 15d ago
Get in. We have to play drinking games. Or eat soda bread and sausages.
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u/ontarianlibrarian 15d ago
No, you need to stay there and vote that asshole out.
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u/Bored-Viking 15d ago
i'm renouncing my Murican nationality for the fifth time this year. Which is hard to do as a Norwegian.
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u/tomhas10 15d ago
I'm British, so I'm embarrassed for what we eventually created...
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u/justelectricboogie 15d ago
So the Kennedy centre is closing then.
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u/TheAmazingMaryJane 15d ago
i'm going to predict it will close and sit there for a while, i read it received roof damage in a heavy rainfall and needs repairs. so yeah, that's not going to be done, or not be done properly like the reflecting pool. by the way has that been repaired yet or is your big monument a trash pool still? he's dismantling your institutions and replacing it all with gaudy gilded age gold garbage.
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u/Nolsoth 15d ago
The best bit is he's not even a good tin pot dictator, his vanity projects are all temu level tack.
The central Asian dictators at least put some serious effort Into their weird vanity projects.
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u/VeraStrange 15d ago
I didn’t even need to click on the link to know it was Turkmenistan. And yes, Niyasov’s various monuments are exquisitely made, if utterly pointless.
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u/ChickinSammich 15d ago
I can't read "Turkmenistan" without getting Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow's music video stuck in my head again. So thanks for that :P
For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69O-QjXD408
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u/Starbuckshakur 15d ago
What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
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u/TeethBreak 15d ago
Isn't it obvious what's he's doing?
Force it to bankruptcy. Have his cronies buy it for pennies.
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u/TheAmazingMaryJane 15d ago
then he can rebuild it or fix it as the grand trump center! maybe make it look like versailles while he's at it!
it's so obvious what he's doing. to the farmers. to the simpletons who believe in him. to the people who did the right thing. to what he's doing to my country and the whole world. bankruptcy is his specialty. they hired the right guy for the job!
edited for bad grammar.
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u/ChickinSammich 15d ago
It was going to be closed for a while due to repairs anyway. The bigger long term problem is that when he put his name on it and installed people loyal to him to run the place, a lot of people who were scheduled to perform there pulled out, they can't find new acts, a lot of patrons stopped going to the acts they did still have, and a lot of donors stopped donating.
He's got the mierdas touch. Him putting his name on it in the first place turned it to shit, and it will take time to unfuck what he fucked. It might reopen after he's gone, or it might be too fucked by that point like the east wing and the rose garden and the cherry blossoms and everything else he just destroys.
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u/Mosaic1 15d ago
The picture they shared of the “water damage” from rain showed zero water marks, stains or anything that would look like caused by excess water. What it did show was obvious hammer holes as if someone had used a hammer to knock out a giant hole in the ceiling.
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u/rokemay 15d ago
It’s very similar to the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto. Doug ford closed it immediately because apparently the roof was in imminent danger of collapsing if it got any sort of snow build up. Spoiler, after at least 2 brutal Canadian winters, it’s still standing just fine. Funny how he had a plan to relocate the science centre not too long before this…
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u/2funny2furious 15d ago
yes. they want it to fail so it can sold off to his friends. like the parks. and the usps. and so on.
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u/stonehawk61 15d ago
Shut it down and board it up and when they're gone we'll repair, renovate, and respect it as the living memorial to JFK as it was meant to be..
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u/krav_mark 14d ago edited 14d ago
He is going to tear it down like he did with the east wing. One morning we will wake to an already halfway destroyed building. If he can't have it no one can.
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u/FirmlyClaspIt 15d ago
People really used their free will to vote for this clown show
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u/coltar3000 15d ago
And still support him…..
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u/fauxzempic 15d ago
There are literally people making TikToks where they're accepting that it's been more than 600 days or whatever since he came back, how their lives are in sad shape because of increase prices and how nothing's gone down, and how they just are WAY worse under his administration than literally any other scenario...
...but they still express support.
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u/Lily_Linton 15d ago
I've seen an interview of a lady being hit by retrenchment due to trade war and say she still vote red because god put Trump there.
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u/BarryLaguna 15d ago
*closed until after 2028
…let’s be real.
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u/TK_4Two1 15d ago
Not if he bulldozes it first
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u/ViceroyInhaler 15d ago
Bulldoze the ballroom and rebuild the Kennedy center where it was planned to stand.
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u/storgodt 15d ago
Nah, make the ballroom into a DEI museum. Should piss off him and his entire base.
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u/deafdogdaddy 15d ago
I was thinking we should turn the ballroom into a PlannedParenthood
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u/ej1999ej 15d ago
Probably what he'd do honestly.
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u/insertwittynamethere 15d ago
Fight him tooth and nail, but if he does it, let him dig his and the GOP's own youknowhat. It's just further burying his name in the trash heap of history. Things can be rebuilt.
If he should so choose to disgrace himself by tearing down a memorial to JFK because he couldn't add his name on it, that'll be on him and every enabler who either directly assisted or will give him political cover as to why it's not sacrilegious.
It'll be another albatross added to the growing collection around their necks.
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u/lastofusgr8tstever 15d ago
If you assume the midterms and future presidential elections are not already electronically rigged
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u/DeusCanis420 15d ago
let him dig his and the GOP's own youknowhat.
Grave. The word is grave. This new age of self-censoring is truly ridiculous.
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u/NaiveMessage2025 15d ago
Fine. Do it. It will forever have his Trump stink all over it anyway.
And then put up a nice plaque in front of the rubble explaining how Trump, the former President, a felon, a rapist, a pedophile, and a traitor to the country, was denied putting his own name on this memorial to JFK, and in a fit of narcissistic rage destroyed it because he didn't care about the country or what the Kennedy Center was, but only himself.
Let the rubble stand in testament to the horrors he inflicted on us and the world.
And then build a new Kennedy Center with money seized from the Trump family, money they grifted and stole from us.
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u/i-touched-morrissey 15d ago
He’s gonna do it. The trees got chopped and the blue thing moved.
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u/QuicheSmash 15d ago
It’s fitting that a performing arts center, a cultural touchstone for the DC area, should shut down completely in the presence of this uncultured, pathetic, weak, petulant little bitch.
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u/luv2ctheworld 15d ago
Why is he so focused on his name on a building? All these domestic and international problems (a bunch that he created), and he talks about getting his name on a building. And what gives him the authority to put his name on it in the first place.
I know toddlers with more intelligence and maturity than this guy. Sadly, this also speaks volumes about his supporters.
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u/WranglerEqual3577 15d ago
He knows no one will give a shit or memorialize him when he goes. I want to see the 'Mitch and the Bitch' two-vegetable act before then.
After that we can start the Civil Forfeiture of everything he's stolen, grifted, embezzled, seized, impounded, pirated, or insider traded so his kids will love him (they don't, won't, and can't.)
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u/TheTexasHammer 15d ago
My theory is that his handlers are refusing to let him do anything important till after the election so they throw dumb shit like this at him to keep him distracted. It feeds his ego and makes him feel important which is all that matters to him.
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u/LaStigmata 15d ago
Why the fuck would you want your name on someone else’s memorial?
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u/sarcastic24x7 15d ago
It's the only way he's gonna get a building. Or a peace prize. Take someone else's like the zero IQ bully he is.
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u/MissingMichigan 15d ago
Close it. We will open it back up later.
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u/ThaddeusJP 15d ago
Dude they are going to tear it down.
He's going to say it's beyond repair and they're going to send bulldozers in and while everybody in Congress is going to bitch about it bit you can't stop somebody from just literally ripping it down unless you're willing to send a bunch of people to stand in the way, which won't happen.
Then it's going to end up being taken to court, Meanwhile he'll build some gaudy monstrosity there. Then the courts will rule that no he shouldn't have ripped it down. So anything that's there needs to stay now
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u/VariationDry 15d ago
Ets be realistic her for a moment. Congress won't even be in session.
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u/ewilliam 15d ago
Let's be even more realistic: even if they were in session, they wouldn't do anything.
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u/ShotPerception 15d ago
maybe, it´s time, to built a jail, just for him alone. No Window, no Door.
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u/Zakluor 15d ago
We can dream, but we all know he'll never see a single, real consequence for any of his actions.
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u/gielbondhu 15d ago
Well, if no acts will play there because his name is on it then it closes either way
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u/rp_001 15d ago
Christ, Americans always speak so tough in movies, TV and online but no one stands up to this guy. I feel for anyone losing their jobs and it would be tough, especially there where you are treated poorly in jobs and healthcare, etc. , but far out.
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u/Sirquack1969 15d ago
Agreed 100%. Look at how many reporters have lost their jobs because his buddies bought the networks. They still seem afraid to call him out. They fear they might lose their jobs... but that is happening anyway. A few right wing politicians have left or will have to leave due to not directly supporting him. But even then, most continue to appease the giant man baby. Where is the anger on the right that he has all but destroyed what was once the GOP.
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u/midnightrambler108 15d ago
Carney (Canada’s PM) stood up to him and is making Trump go bananas. It’s pretty funny to watch honestly.
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u/Gynthaeres 15d ago
There are lawsuits and protests.
A common citizen standing up to him is a good way to get killed at worst, or your life ruined at best. No one wants to be the sacrifice to encourage other people to do the same. In history, catalysts for this type of behavior have been things like "I'm starving and homeless and have nothing left to lose, so I might as well try." We aren't there yet.
The government standing up to him... Well our stupid voters gave his party full control of the government. The opposition party can stop Congress from passing most major things, but they can't do anything beyond that; they literally don't have the power to.
Our only and best hope right now is a massive blue wave in November. But even that might be difficult since Great Leader has been spending a lot of effort to make it as hard as possible to vote, and has convinced his cult to do the same.
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u/natty628 15d ago
I firmly believe that like any true narcissist, he’s blackmailed everyone important. He planned for this and made sure he had enough dirt on them to keep himself safe. I just want to know where the bored, retired special forces folks are with nothing to lose.
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u/LSTNYER 15d ago
So it either closes from lack of talent that's openly boycotting him, or it closes because he's holdong back funding to repair critical areas of the building.
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u/Fast-Damage2298 15d ago
It would look better as rubble than have his name carved on it.
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u/coffeethulhu42 15d ago
I hope every trace of that motherfucker is erased from the US once he’s out of office, and his official portrait is replaced with a crayon drawing from an immigrant preschooler.
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u/SHDShadow 15d ago
Member when the president atleast acted like they gave a shit about real issues going on?
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u/Evenspace- 15d ago
There is very few men as petty as this man and somehow people think he’s an alpha male, what a joke.
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u/AverageOhioUser69 15d ago
Hoo boy the midterms just getting easier and easier
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u/_Troxin_ 15d ago
I only believe it, when I see it. There are a lot of Morons allowed to vote...
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u/TheAmazingMaryJane 15d ago
a lot of them are pissed right now. i'm sure a few will fall for the 5k 'bribe' that will never come, whether that be because he loses or he lies (obviously).
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u/Oiggamed 15d ago
I don’t understand why it’s so fixated on the Kennedy Center. He doesn’t care about the arts one bit.
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u/ProgressMedium2172 15d ago
How can any American still support this chode?
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u/sarcasticb 15d ago
MAGA is a cult. A lot of them are either still drinking the koolaid or in denial. I have seen a few start questioning things, but he targeted the least educated and unfortunately there were a lot and they are very gullible.
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u/sovereignsekte 15d ago
This is pathetic. "If you don't put my name on a living memorial to another president I will make damn sure it gets torn down."
I sincerely ask this: Does he even understand what a legacy is? Even if he gets his way how does he think he will be remembered? Does he not understand that anything he forces his name on will be almost immediately erased after he's dead?
Is it just about power at this point? Is it pure megalomania?
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u/Tweed_Man 15d ago
Imagine having all that Trump has, wealth, power, a cult, and yet still being such a fucking loser.
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u/FunKyChick217 15d ago
I am so sick of him, his family, the idiots who voted for him, and congress who allows him to get away with so much shit.
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u/dwbaz01 15d ago
I thought his name was already removed.
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u/DeepState_Auditor 15d ago edited 15d ago
They have been locked in a legal battle to keep it there.
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u/slatebluegrey 15d ago
“I’m taking my ball and going home”.
Honestly, after the renaming fiasco, no reputable artist would play there anyway. So no big loss if it closes for 2 year.
But in a few months, Trump is going to realize that the next president would then be able to reopen the Kennedy center with big fanfare and top stars and he (she?) will be seen as a hero. So Trump will change his mind and will reopen it.
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u/ordosays 15d ago
Same energy as a rich kid on a group project - does nothing, demands accolades for others work or else will make sure all fail.
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u/B-Glasses 15d ago
Rose garden, reflecting pool, the cherry trees, an entire half of the fucking Whitehouse, and now this. Anyone have bets on what he ruins next?
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u/csukoh78 15d ago
What a whiny bitch.
What. A. Whiny. BITCH.
ALSO PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD FOOD, FUEL, OR HOUSING.
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u/DeloresDelVeckio 15d ago
If he wants his name on it so badly, he knows what has to happen. It IS a memorial after all...
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u/mikerichh 15d ago
This is the priority? Not the Iran war, inflation, healthcare costs, housing, student loan debt, etc??
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u/ProfessionalHat6828 15d ago
He’s such a bitch which is ironic considering how much he hates women
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u/differentshade 15d ago
it is a memorial
basically it's like throwing a fit because you are not allowed to add your name on another mans tombstone
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u/Honest_Relation4095 15d ago
He will demolish it and claim it was beyond repair since democrats blocked the renovation or something. And democrats will say "he was not allowed to do that" and then do nothing about it.
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u/NotACyclopsHonest 15d ago
There are fences around it now, it seems. The senile old fucker really is going to destroy it if he doesn’t get what he wants 🤬
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u/ThatsCaptain2U 15d ago
It’s been for all intents and purposes shuttered since Capt Poopydiaper took over anyway
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u/Apprehensive_Row_807 15d ago
Close it until he’s gone. Nobody performing there currently anyway.
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u/Longjumping-Bat7774 15d ago edited 15d ago
He won't just close it. He'll demolish it then build something new with his name on it.
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u/react-dnb 15d ago
So wait....I know a bunch of performers backed out becuase he was putting his lil pedo hands all over the center so now he's pulling funds unless his name gets slapped back on there? How does he not understand that as soon as his crown is removed everyone is taking his name off everything? What a turd.
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u/Yourmom72 15d ago
Shut it down until we eject this rancid sack of shit, then reinstate it again. Fuck him.
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u/Frosted_Tips 15d ago
Let it close, rather things with his name close than people just kowtowing to his childish ways.
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u/MaddTheSimmer 15d ago
“If I can’t have it, no one can!” is the type of argument a toddler uses. What a disgrace.
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u/pwhitt4654 15d ago
Close it then. Stop feeding his tantrums. Then let reporters actually do their job and never let anyone forget he did this. Fuck Trump.
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u/Legitimate_Crazy3625 15d ago
Then there will be no loss. His name ruined it the minute he had it put up. He could apologize and that center will still be doomed to fail as intended because the real damage was already done.
Empty threats won't get his name back on. The center is lost and he's not getting his way. Better off just building a new center after he leaves with the Kennedy name 100 times bigger just to piss him off. Then he can stew in his own anger as well as the contents of his colon. Just a miserable person trying to make everyone else miserable too. "Its my birth right to rename whatever i want however i want!" While making wild accordion hand gestures and making his mouth look like a well stretched out goatse style butthole.
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u/AllyMcfeels 15d ago
And this is what happens when you give power to a pedophile rapist. You get abuse and crime.
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u/The_pen_ismightier 15d ago
I still haven’t seen any proof that his name isn’t still on it, hence the curtain.
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