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JFK's family slams Trump over Kennedy Center: 'How small minded, how narcissistic'

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18.09.2026

JFK’s family slams Trump over Kennedy Center: ‘How small minded, how narcissistic’

The family of former President Kennedy slammed President Trump for his ongoing legal battle to put his name on the Kennedy Center and to close the building for planned renovations.

The Kennedy Center board, handpicked by Trump, voted Tuesday to close the main building, but Trump said the renovations will not happen as long as the ruling blocking his name from being added to the center stands.

“If the ruling is a negative one, which it should not be, and is not overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Reconstruction and the Renovation of The Kennedy Center will not take place,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Kennedy’s niece Maria Shriver, who was the former first lady of California, said Trump’s statement “blows my mind,” calling the president “small minded” and “narcissistic.”

“That a sitting president would not let any renovations to a public building go on unless he gets to first put........

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