As Donald Trump celebrates the renaming of the Kennedy Center to the so-called “Trump-Kennedy Center,” let’s all acknowledge how this happened.
Trump purged the existing Kennedy Center board, replaced longtime trustees with loyalists aligned with his administration, and then had that hand-picked board vote to install him as chairman and slap his name onto a national cultural institution.
This wasn’t honor or tradition. It was a deliberate takeover, turning a nonpartisan monument to American arts and history into a vanity project built through political muscle and self-dealing.
From Mehdi Hasan
So much disinformation on this site tonight in the wake of the horrific Kirk murder, with conservatives cynically suggesting that all of the political violence in this country comes from the left.
In fact it’s the opposite.
Here are the facts for those with short memories:
The man who targeted and killed Democratic state Rep Melissa Hortman was a Trump supporter.
The man who targeted the home of Dem Governor Josh Shapiro was a Trump supporter.
The men who wanted to hang Mike Pence on Jan 6th were Trump supporters.
The man who targeted and killed the son of Obama-appointed District Judge Esther Salas was a Trump supporter.
The man who tried to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and assaulted her husband was a Trump supporter.
The men who were convicted trying to kidnap Dem Governor Gretchen Whitmer were Trump supporters.
The man who sent pipe bombs to the homes of Obama and Biden was a Trump supporter.
There is no equivalent or even similar list of Obama or Biden supporters who have carried out similar murders, attempted murders, or violent attacks.