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Instead of Draining the Swamp, Trump Starts Renaming It After Himself
The Corner
White House
Instead of Draining the Swamp, Trump Starts Renaming It After Himself
By Jeffrey Blehar
December 20, 2025 9:18 AM
Newly added lettering for U.S. President Donald Trump’s name on the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a day after its board announced it would rename the institution, in Washington, D.C.,, December 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
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.
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White House
Instead of Draining the Swamp, Trump Starts Renaming It After Himself
By Jeffrey Blehar
December 20, 2025 9:18 AM
Newly added lettering for U.S. President Donald Trump’s name on the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a day after its board announced it would rename the institution, in Washington, D.C.,, December 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
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.
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