CNN Anchors Amused at Trump ‘Slip’ About Renaming Kennedy Center — After Himself

Tommy Christopher Dec 5th, 2025, 2:17 pm

CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown were visibly amused that President Donald Trump “slipped” and revealed a desire to rename the Kennedy Center after himself — to “The Trump Kennedy Center.”

During a signing ceremony for a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Trump punctuated one riff with an obviously feigned Freudian slip about The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, which Trump took over this year:

And you have a big event on Friday at the Trump Kennedy Center.

Oh, excuse me. At the Kennedy Center.

(LAUGHTER)

Pardon me. I made such a terrible mistake, Marco. Uh at the Kennedy Center.

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