April 1, 2025
For Immediate Release:
The performing arts center's new Chairman of the Board announced that, effective immediately, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will now be known as the Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts.
Standing next to where the 35th president's bust used to stand, the Board Chairman, and new namesake, stated
"You are now going to see great concerts - amazing concerts like you've never seen before. Better concerts than when Biden and Obama were in charge, but probably better than all of the concerts that took place here before the Kennedy administration. That I can tell you.
We will only put on performances that are true to America's values and ideals. No one wants to see an opera that take place in a harem, or an opera where the servants make fun of the nobility, or an opera that includes a secret society. For those reasons, we are instituting a Mozart ban effective immediately.
The Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts will also be banning Leonard Bernsteen. "Any conductor who can't spell, and can’t pronounce his own name correctly, does not represent America's values."
