The Obama Presidential Center features a permanent land acknowledgment display near the museum tower, sparking debate given the site's history.
Critics mocked the Obama Presidential Center's "land acknowledgement" as performative, while the center hosted Native American dance performances Saturday.
The Obama Presidential Center's structural engineer says boldness was the goal, calling the tower's design an unprecedented architectural statement.
The plaintiff in the case, Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty, said by refusing to take steps to resume shows, the Kennedy Center is in violation of a previous court order.
Mary Trump has spent years telling anyone who will listen that her uncle cannot bear to be seen losing. This week she pointed to a tarp draped over the Kennedy Center as her latest exhibit.In the newest edition of her newsletter, the segment she calls "Trump Trolls Trump," the clinical psychologist and niece of the president argued that the covering left over the building's facade was not about construction logistics. It was about ego. Crews began stripping Donald Trump's name off the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after a federal judge ruled the renaming illegal, and Mary Trump claimed the tarp stayed up for a revealing reason. Because he is "such an insecure, thin skinned baby," she wrote, "they left the tarp up so we cannot actually watch Donald's letters being removed."It is the kind of read that lands differently coming from her than from an ordinary commentator. As the president's niece and the author of a bestselling book diagnosing the psychology of her own family, Mary Trump has built her public profile on the argument that her uncle's behavior is driven by a fragile need to never appear weak. The tarp, in her telling, is that need made physical.The underlying events are not in dispute. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper determined that the president's name had been illegally added to the center, after a board stacked with Trump loyalists voted in December 2025 to rebrand it. The court ordered the name removed and blocked the administration's plan to close the venue for a lengthy renovation. After a last-minute scramble of appeals and a requested extension blamed on thunderstorms, workers began prying the lettering off the facade in the early hours of June 13, with scaffolding and tarp covering the wall.Mary Trump found the cover-up almost too fitting. The same tarp meant to spare her uncle the indignity of watching his own name come down, she noted, also blocks the public from seeing the name of the man the building was actually built to honor. "We cannot see the name of John Fitzgerald Kennedy," she wrote, "the man for whom the Kennedy Center was actually named."She returned to the theme that animates her entire project: a man who treats every loss as something to be hidden, spun, or blamed on someone else. Throughout the newsletter she refers to him only as "Donald," a small but deliberate choice that keeps the family relationship in the frame and strips away the deference of his title.Her broader point was not subtle. The week, she argued, was a parade of self-inflicted embarrassments dressed up as strength, "corruption masquerading as governance" and "incompetence disguised as confidence." The Kennedy Center tarp simply gave her the cleanest image for it.The claim that the tarp was kept up to shield Trump's feelings is Mary Trump's interpretation, not a stated explanation from the administration, which has cited the appeals process and the building's condition.
Vice President JD Vance has departed for Switzerland to begin talks with Iran after signing the memorandum of understanding on Wednesday. Talks between the US and Iran are planned for Sunday at the Bürgenstock Resort in Switzerland, according to CBS. The post JUST IN: VP Vance En Route to Switzerland – Tells Reporters Iranians “Just Landed” (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
President Trump on Saturday morning slammed “fools” who criticized the terms of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the U.S. and Iran after several lawmakers and former President Obama spoke out against the deal. “Radical Left fools and Dumocrats realize how well we have done in our War against Iran, with their Country being completely…
Trump also took a swipe at former President Biden, who he said failed to command respect from Iran alongside Obama.
Left-wing vandals have targeted Trump's newly renovated Reflecting Pool by the Lincoln Memorial, damaging the blue sealant applied at the bottom to maintain the pool's blue color. President Trump undertook the project to restore the filthy green water basin, built in the 1920s, which has been marred by issues, including sinking and leaking into the swamp beneath. The post (VIDEO) Leftists Vandalize Trump’s Newly Renovated Reflecting Pool by Cutting Blue Sealant Out and Writing “86 47” Message – Man Arrested appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.