Why would he stop whining after just two years? And what a shame – I was so looking forward to the luxurious comfort of the gold-plated steel armrests in the glorious new seats he had proposed!
Despite the whiny-baby tone of that post by Donald, it’s hard to believe he’d actually permit his name to be chiseled off its exterior. But, yes: people would want to be able to attend (and cheer).
The particular theme of his whine about ‘let Congress deal with it!’ leads me to wonder: has any other President been “responsible” for the Center? As in, making decisions about its running and maintenance and such? The Board of Trustees makes those decisions, but has any other President asserted sole power to hire and fire those Trustees?
Congress has a site that’s rather skeptical of Donny-Boy’s prerogatives:
So possibly Donny’s hissy-fit means that one or another committee of Congress will be able to fire the lackey-Trustees and get back the old ones…?
https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/HTML/IF12911.html
I believe the judge gave him two weeks (!) to physically get his name off of the building.
Too bad the sentence wasn’t that he had to do it himself. What an image!
Balancing on stilts.
I won’t say the entire debacle of the Trump Regime would be rendered “worth it” if Donald was forced to balance on stilts to get those letters off.
But I won’t say it wouldn’t be.
From that whining pathetic rant:
Yet, you need a massive industrial-strength bunker built in the center of it.
Looking at the judge’s official biography, I and across this:
“Working in Washington and London, Judge Cooper specialized in defending clients in white-collar criminal matters. . .”
No wonder Trump was so upset. Defending white collar crime is a cornerstone of his presidency!
Agreed.
It’s hard to see him not walking back that Truth Social post in the next few days.
Maybe he’s hoping that Republicans will beg him to reconsider and fight.
If he really lets his name be taken off the facade without appealing this ruling, that’s a tremendous sign of weakness. I might have to stop calling him a dictator.
The facade will still be enshittified, won’t it? We’ll still be able to see the outline of the removed letters, won’t we?
I don’t think the shit letters were up there long, you know, by letters-on-a-building standards. My money is on a nice pressure washer.
For a long time, I hope.
I have no great interest in punishment, but a continuing little humiliation like that would be instructive.
I do have an uncertainty here.
News stories both have Trump seemingly accepting that he has lost control of the Kennedy Center, and this:
I cannot figure out which came first – the Trump Truth Social cave-in, or the plan to appeal. Anyone know?
The initial story mentioned an appeal. I’d guess that’s automatic. And “plan” is unnecessarily generous to the administration.
Trump’s part is just the predictable childish sour grapes tantrum.
Answers my question. Thank you.
I agree it has a childish ring. I disagree about it being predictable.
When courts rule against him on tariffs, he writes on Truth Social that he’ll just have to do it another way. I do not recall him previously saying that Congress can take charge.
It also was extraordinary that he addressed the Republican Congress with the idea that it was sure to fail. He treated Congress as if already Democratic controlled.
He probably will walk back the nonsense idea of turning over the Kennedy Center to Congress. But it was extraordinary that he would be inclined to turn over power even for a bit. Makes me wonder if he will start threatening to quit. (Don’t get excited; they would be idle threats.)
He did, after all, promise so much whining. We would be tired of all the whining.
Worth remembering:
Can the claims hes making about rotting beams and parking areas ready to collapse be verified or disproven in any way?
It’s coming from Donald Trump, so it can almost certainly be discarded as false.
Well yeah, but a relexive dismissal is dangerous…
True or not we should verify one way or the other right?
I think I’d rather have an assessment from a qualified civil engineer, rather than a business school graduate. At least, with the former, we’ve got expertise in beams and parking areas. With the latter, we’ve got as much expertise in civil engineering as I do in nuclear physics. Which is none at all.