Instead of Draining the Swamp, Trump Starts Renaming It After Himself |
On Wednesday Donald Trump unveiled his newest addition to the White House, a series of presidential plaques featuring Trump’s own highly ungrammatical (and wildly undignified) opinions on his predecessors, engraved for posterity’s sake and put on public display. I wrote about it on Thursday morning, thinking I’d said enough about Trump’s attention-seeking and glory-thirsting outbursts for one week.
Two hours after that piece was published, Trump announced he was renaming the Kennedy Center after himself. It felt like getting slapped with a backhand after having already taken the forehand.
To be technically accurate, it was the Trump-appointed board of the Kennedy Center Foundation that voted “unanimously” to rename what was once Washington’s fanciest concert venue, but something tells me they may have acted at their dear leader’s behest. Karoline Leavitt’s announcement reads as if it was written by Trump for her — and given how distinctive Trump’s writing style is, that’s not a bad bet:
I have just been informed that the highly respected Board of the Kennedy Center, some of the most successful people from all parts of the world, have just voted unanimously to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, because of the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building. Not only from the standpoint of its reconstruction, but also financially, and its reputation. Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump, and likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy, because this will be a truly great team long into the future! The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur.
Understand that the Kennedy Center was........