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Hot Takes: Dems Melt Down Over Kennedy
Center Name Change - Ric Grenell Levels
Them With Reality

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Posted By: JoElla Bee, 12/20/2025 11:32:24 AM

As we reported, the board of the Kennedy Center voted to add President Donald Trump's name to the Center after the efforts he made to help restore the renowned arts venue. [snip] But it's a bit like the craziness over the White House ballroom. Trump gets a ballroom for free that the nation can use forever, and Democrats attack. Adding Trump's name is their current excuse for melting down, and folks on the right are enjoying tantrums. The hot takes on the left were something to see, starting with this guy who said he was a resident of Washington, D.C., but thinks "democracy died today" because of this.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: crashnburn 12/20/2025 11:37:06 AM (No. 2043589)
The DemoRoids are reduced to crying over small beer, because that's all they have.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: earlybird 12/20/2025 11:53:12 AM (No. 2043591)
Some remember how the patriarch founded the family fortune. https://jackrighteous.com/en-us/blogs/jack-righteous-updates/joseph-kennedy-power-politics-jfk-legacy
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Reply 3 - Posted by: downnout 12/20/2025 11:55:42 AM (No. 2043594)
Normal people usually outgrow their childhood fantasies. The Kennedys never do - they still think they are American royalty.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 12/20/2025 12:24:30 PM (No. 2043606)
There's a giant Federal Building in San Francisco named after Nancy Pelosi. It was Democrat members of Congress who decided that they shouldn't have to wait until death to have a building or highway off-ramp named after them. They have to learn to play by their own rules.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: lakerman1 12/20/2025 12:30:19 PM (No. 2043607)
Does DJT really want his name next to that of a sex offender?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: volksford 12/20/2025 12:46:42 PM (No. 2043612)
Thats what happens when toppling statues and rewriting history becomes the norm DEMOCRATS ! So embrace the suck !
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Venturer 12/20/2025 4:42:46 PM (No. 2043651)
I did not like this, but if it makes the left cry , let er go.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Illinois Mom 12/20/2025 6:20:26 PM (No. 2043671)
The Kennedy heirs have a few bucks. Have they had anything to do the center since Jackie died? Where is their "foundation" to preserve and maintain the Kennedy Center? Eleanor Roosevelt had the idea that "cultural center" for the Arts was needed in Washington DC. President Eisenhower created a commission to create what was then known as the "National Cultural Center." Three years later, Congress passed an act to build the new venue. After President Kennedy was elected, he and Jackie embraced it whole heartedly and it became the place to be seen. Kennedy's pretty much introduced average Americans to the great composers and orchestras of the time I remember watching Leonard Berstein Young People's Concerts in school. Trump and his fundraising efforts have the building to restore the structure to its former glory. All American can once again be proud of a national landmark. Is there even ONE Democrat who would have (selflessly) stepped up done the same?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Strike3 12/21/2025 9:53:38 AM (No. 2043794)
Democracy died when Barack Obama was pushed into office. Your memories are short, democrats, but I wouldn't want to remember the Kenyan Communist Muslim mistake either.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: chance_232 12/21/2025 10:59:12 AM (No. 2043836)
Kennedy was a mediocre president at best. His only legacy was the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. His assassination elevated him from mediocre president to democrat sainthood. Every city in this country has something named after that skirt chaser. Had he not been assassinated, we would be asking "Kennedy who?" Sure Trump likes things named after him. But usually for buildings that he has built, refurbished or raised capital for.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Kafka2 12/21/2025 2:58:19 PM (No. 2043918)
Illinois Mom #8 said it beautifully. It is a shame that no Democrats are listening. They are too busy trying to out do one another casting aspersions and slander on anyone who doesn’t agree with them.
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