Hot Takes: Dems Melt Down Over Kennedy Center Name

As we reported, the board of the Kennedy Center voted to add President Donald Trump’s title to the Center after the efforts he made to help restore the famend arts venue. 

Today, we proudly unveil the up to date exterior designation—honoring the management of President Donald J. Trump and the enduring legacy of John F. Kennedy. 🇺🇸

The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts pic.twitter.com/ALEE59pkZ9

— The Trump Kennedy Center (@kencen) December 19, 2025

🔥 🔥 Workers had been seen celebrating after putting in the title “TRUMP” on the Trump Kennedy Center building.

pic.twitter.com/pyIY6bKz5q

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 19, 2025

But it is a bit just like the craziness over the White House ballroom. Trump will get a ballroom for free that the nation can use eternally, and Democrats assault. Adding Trump’s title is their current excuse for melting down, and people on the suitable are having fun with tantrums. 

The sizzling takes on the left had been one thing to see, beginning with this man who said he was a resident of Washington, D.C., but thinks “democracy died today” because of this. 

Hysterical leftist melts down over President Trump’s title being hung on the Kennedy Center.

“I’m feeling like democracy died today. We should all be shocked that a convicted felon, and a thug, and a grifter stuck his name on top of a national monument!”pic.twitter.com/82ntSethh6

— Media Research Center (@theMRC) December 19, 2025

I did not know democracy died because Trump saved the Kennedy Center. And we’re not a pure democracy for a purpose; we’re a constitutional republic. 

Then there was Jim Acosta, the previous GWN character, shedding his thoughts. This is hilarious, as he stories from “the scene of the crime.” And he turned off his feedback on X, so he would not have to hear from the parents laughing at him. 

Reporting from the scene of the crime. Trump has slapped his title on the Kennedy Center. But we are going to never call it the Trump Kennedy Center: pic.twitter.com/DFlabMjZPJ

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) December 19, 2025

Who is he reporting for, anyway? Trump has damaged him. 

Kennedy Center head, Ric Grenell, had a little enjoyable with him. 

Welcome to the Trump Kennedy Center, Jim. https://t.co/8hGMbnAl1F

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 19, 2025

The White House Deputy Press Secretary, Abigail Jackson, famous that perhaps the media was attempting to deflect from some of the other visuals that had been dropping on Friday. 

Wow GWN & MSDNC are back to hyperventilating over the Trump-Kennedy Center. They *actually* don’t need to speak about this photograph of Bill Clinton. pic.twitter.com/jGONCnrW6S

— Abigail Jackson (@ATJackson47) December 19, 2025

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Then there have been the meltdowns for some of the Kennedy household, including Maria Shriver, saying it was named after her uncle. 

The Kennedy Center was named after my uncle, President John F Kennedy. It was named in his honor. He was a man who was in the humanities, in tradition, in schooling, language, historical past. He introduced the humanities into the White House, and he and my Aunt Jackie… pic.twitter.com/wcGjTp2uqa

— Maria Shriver (@mariashriver) December 18, 2025

But that’s when Grenell schooled her, saying the building had been falling aside and they did not help at all.

The place was actually falling aside and you didn’t help – at all.

Where you been, Maria? You had been fully silent while the building crumbled.

Donald Trump had to step in and put it aside because you didn’t help.

You ought to thank him. https://t.co/ngBPNkrf4w

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 18, 2025

Democrats need to speak, but it is Trump who is placing in the work to restore the building. If they cared so a lot, where have they been? 

We’ve written before about how Grenell found the horrible state the Center’s funds had been in as properly. 

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Kerry Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s sister, even threatened to take a “pickax” to the letters spelling out Trump’s title on the building at the end of Trump’s time period. And she, too, cut off feedback. 

Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!! pic.twitter.com/ZLPhd7fU31

— Kerry Kennedy (@KerryKennedyRFK) December 19, 2025

Except, of course, there’s a small downside with her assertion. She thinks she shall be ready to do that after Trump’s time period. But what’s she going to do if it is President JD Vance next? 

Again, Grenell did some education, saying she ought to be thanking them instead. 

You left the place in wreck over the years.

Financially and bodily.

You ought to thank President Trump for saving it. https://t.co/Q0ctZ7NF8X

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 19, 2025

The Center is a public establishment, not a family-owned entity. 

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