Donald Trump’s handpicked board at the Kennedy Center has voted to rename it the Trump-Kennedy Center. There was immediate glee in MAGA world that this “triggered” the “libs,” and triggering the other side seems a major goal in 21st century Republican politics. It’s a sign that Trump is doubling down on the (seemingly endless) culture wars. The Kennedy family (except for Trump employee RFK, Jr.) is outraged.
What comes next? Here’s a helpful (and entirely hypothetical) starter list.
Public Places
Infrastructure
Everyday Life
Education
Health & Science
The Weather Service Trump Weather (Maps Subject to Revision)
Media & Technology
Nature & Landmarks
Everyday Objects
Trump can also move to put his people on the Disney board and rename Disneyland to Trumpland.
Oh, wait.
That already exists.
It’s called Fox News.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.