[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 214 (Thursday, December 18, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H6098]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      RENAMING THE KENNEDY CENTER

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, today, I learned that the Kennedy Center 
board asked or said that the Kennedy Center would be renamed the Trump-
Kennedy Center.
  That is a sacrilege to a martyred, heroic, historic American 
President whose name was attached to the Kennedy Center for his support 
for cultural excellence in America and because he was an assassinated 
President who we all mourned on November 22 through November 25 and 
thereafter because he gave his life for our country.
  The idea that Donald Trump would want his name to go before Kennedy's 
or even with Kennedy's is a sacrilege. It should not be changed ever, 
and it should go through this Congress, who named it the Kennedy 
Center, on a bill in this House and signed by President Lyndon Johnson.
  Stop this, Mr. Trump. If you have any sense of dignity and honor, you 
will renounce this. Don't say that you are honored. You should renounce 
it. John Kennedy's name stands before all others, and the Kennedy 
Center should not be renamed.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks 
to the Chair.

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