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- U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempts to rename the Kennedy Center.
- U.S. President Donald Trump appointed himself chairman of the Kennedy Center and placed loyalists on its board.
- Legal obstacles exist because Congress controls the Kennedy Center site, hindering the renaming effort.
- U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) argued taxpayers should fund working families, not Trump’s name, warning the theater could be destroyed.