On Friday Dec. 19, 2025, the name of President Donald J. trump has been added to the facade of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.

The new signage was installed just a day after the Kennedy Center board, made up primarily of trump allies “voted unanimously” to rename the center.

The building will now be known as Donald J. trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.

The renaming of the building has sparked outrage as the legality remains in question. According to NBC News, “the law creating the center prohibited any of the facilities from being renamed, other than the Eisenhower Theater, after the president whose administration first authorized its construction in 1958. The project stalled and was revived under President John F. Kennedy, whose family led an effort to get the center built and named in his honor following his assassination. Two months later, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the legislation making it a living memorial to Kennedy. According to U.S. code, ‘After December 2, 1983, no additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.’”

The news also saw the Kennedy family slam the decision with Maria Shriver stating, “The Kennedy Center was named after my uncle, President John F Kennedy. It was named in his honor. He was a man who was interested in the arts, interested in culture, interested in education, language, history.”

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