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Make Entertainment Great Again Act: Republican wants to rename Kennedy Center for Trump One historian recently described the Republican effort to name a bunch of stuff after the incumbent president as “pretty crazy.”

July 29, 2025, 12:20 PM EDT

By Steve Benen

In recent months, Republicans have prioritized naming a great many things in ways they find ideologically satisfying, targeting everything from the Gulf of Mexico to Navy ships , Veterans Day to the Persian Gulf , military bases to sports teams .

Evidently, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is now on the list, too.

Last week, Republican Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho tucked a provision into a spending bill that would name the Kennedy Center’s opera house after first lady Melania Trump

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