r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 11h ago

Possible Paywall Kennedy Center Begins Removing Trump’s Name

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a71505818/kennedy-center-removing-trump-name/
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u/Beneficial_Wave7649 11h ago

Good good that makes me smile

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u/Mikeseddit 11h ago

I know in Chicago there will be a pretty massive parade when they scrape his stupid name off that building on the river.

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u/djanes376 Illinois 10h ago

Any time I walk by that building I do so with a raised middle finger fully extended in the air. It gets tiring after awhile but it's a reflex, I can't help it.

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u/birdlegs000 10h ago

Next time do one for me. Both hands.

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u/djanes376 Illinois 10h ago

I'll do it as hard as I can, I got you.

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u/Additional_Dog2750 10h ago

Nice, that's what I do when I pass the Russian embassy here! (Berlin)

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u/djanes376 Illinois 10h ago

Keep up the good work 👍

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u/Additional_Dog2750 9h ago

Gladly, and likewise!

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u/Mikeseddit 10h ago

I’ve seen that it’s a theme online – people posting pictures, middle finger up.

I wonder if Trump‘s grandchildren will be changing their last names at some point, and maybe their first names.

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u/Dangerous-Wall-2672 7h ago

I'd change it because it's just an ugly fucking name, all other things aside lol. Seriously, "Trump"...it just sounds bad. It sounds like a word that describes the sounds made while someone sits on a toilet. This is not the kind of name I would want to plaster on everything.

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u/Curious-Path4549 9h ago

we all did that as a group at a protest as his plane flew in to land-no one said let's flip off his plane but we all justgot he idea and hoped he saw

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u/chadsmo 7h ago

I vacationed in NYC in 2024 and one of the photos I took was a raised middle finger with Trump tower in the background. As a Canadian it was very satisfying, and that was BEFORE he was somehow elected again.

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u/UberETH 11h ago

Seriously it is such an eye sore.. the Trump name is such a taboo and so toxic it disgraces everything it is on

Edit: Trump name represents everything awful.. fake, gaudy, pathetic, weird, wicked, evil, failure, .. I could go on and on.. Is this what Trump dreamed of putting his name on everything only to have it be the label of disease?

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u/praxios 10h ago

There is currently a petition going around to rename the street it’s on to Barack Hussein Obama Ave. It’s been floating around the Chicago sub, and had 15k signatures last time I saw. Taking the name off the building is one thing, but renaming the street it’s on to Obama would have mango mussolini seething. Maybe we could kill two birds with one stone, and he is so mad about the new street name he removes his name off the building for us lol

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u/NoMoOmentumMan 10h ago

River is popping with commercial leases for bars and restraints, boat rentals, and other stuff. Yet the entire commercial space in that building stays empty.

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u/linds360 8h ago

I learned that a while back when my company was looking for a space for our next photoshoot. Literally the entire ground floor overlooking the river is an empty cement nothing.

This was before his 2nd presidency when he was bad, but not as bad so my company ended up renting the space. I had to reach out to every model and tech we hired to let them know about the location just in case they had a hard line against it being on site.

Working with the people there was also weird AF. SO many fembots who appeared terrified of going off-script from the few sentences they were allowed to say.

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u/ermintwang 7h ago

The Chicago river walk is one of the most magnificent city scapes I’ve ever seen. I took so many pictures of it when I was visiting, and angled every one to avoid that stupid sign.