Kerry Kennedy: Three years and one month from today, I'm going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building

[highplainsdem]

Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!

— Kerry Kennedy (@kerrykennedy.bsky.social) 2025-12-19T20:03:11.108Z

[highplainsdem]

1. Posted on X as well:

Link to tweet

[Whyisthisstillclose]

2. I, and many others will be there to help

[debsy]

14. Same here and we will do it for free!

[Srkdqltr]

3. Good for you.

[UTUSN]

4. K&R

[Ars Longa]

5. Hopefully, before that!

[forgotmylogin]

46. I bet those letters will pop off real easy.

The originals are probably cemented in and they wanted to do this fast, which is why it's "The Donald J. Trump AND The John F. Kennedy Center..."

The original letters are centered and it would have taken longer to re-do the whole sign, so they metaphorically just sharpie'd his name over the top. Those letters are not staying up. If you zoom in, the letters in his name are actually smaller than the originals.

Someone in 2029 will probably fix it in ten minutes with a cherry picker and a dinner fork.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. They really need to start a lottery to determine

Who gets the honor to trash his sign.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. They really need to start a lottery to determine

Who gets the honor to trash his sign.

[sheshe2]

8. Good for her, I will give her a hand.

[moonshinegnomie]

9. it should be legal for anyone to ri them off now

after all they are just cleaning up vandalism...

[Omnipresent]

10. Of course it's nothing but crickets from RFK jr.

Why would he give a shit about his uncle’s legacy?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. Betty Bowers will be helping

Living for the day when that vile gargoyle's name is crowbarred off the building.

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2025-12-19T17:15:06.437Z

Those metallic letters in the correct font didn't happen overnight. This has been planned for a long time. So when Donald says he is "surprised" and "honored" by the name-change, he is lying. It was his plan all along.

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2025-12-19T17:23:05.037Z

[Cha]

19. Of course he's lying his GD head Off.

TY for these posts from Mrs. Betty Bowers!

[Irish_Dem]

26. I agree, Trump had this planned from the beginning.

Same reason he appointed a psychopath, psychotic drug addict to high office.
To humiliate the Kennedys.

[yellow dahlia]

12. Thank you Kerry Kennedy!

I wish I heard more of this type of push back...everywhere...every day.

[GoodRaisin]

13. I hope he's still alive to watch when his crap gets removed.

[Bengus81]

42. I hope he's a slobbering POS confined to a wheel chair by then.

[SWBTATTReg]

15. Do this on every tRUMP building, everywhere where tRUMP has plastered his f***ing name. Pres. Scumbags will

go down in history as one of the worst, if not the worst, president.

[llmart]

37. Oh, I am quite sure he is the worse one in history.

In fact, I'd put him before Hitler and Jeffrey Dahmer as the worst person in history.

[Kid Berwyn]

16. Put me on speed dial.

I’ll bring pick axes.

[Beartracks]

17. Since it's the Kennedy Center by law, isn't putting Trump's name up there vandalism?

And why is it that ANYbody would be okay with breaking the law and slapping his name up there? Is it only the military that is supposed to not follow unlawful orders? I thought ALL citizens were supposed to follow and uphold the law.

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[oberle]

22. Technically it has to go through Congress

But with the ass kissers there they'll approve it.

[Beartracks]

48. We don't have a Congress. Republicans abdicated that body's role as a 3rd branch of govt.

[Cha]

18. Mahalo, Kerry Kennedy...somehow that

makes me feel better!!

TY!

[Buddyzbuddy]

20. It's a distraction.

[dalton99a]

21. Kick

[AverageOldGuy]

23. I'm in

Bringing 36-ft ladder, wrecking bars, sledge hammers.

I can come armed if need be.

[flashman13]

24. You should cut the letters into small pieces and auction them off for charity.

[NBachers]

25. I can see the headlines "Magat blood flows in Kennedy Center riot!"

[gordianot]

27. So much for NBC Anchor Tom Llamas.

His headline tonight the name of the Kennedy Center has officially been changed. Good try to normalize the orange shit gibbon.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. MaddowBlog-One day later, officials scramble to add Trump's name to the Kennedy Center

It’s worth describing what transpired at the Kennedy Center accurately: A group of people vandalized one of the nation’s premier performing arts centers.

It’s worth describing what transpired at the Kennedy Center today accurately:

The president’s operation just vandalized one of the nation’s premier performing arts centers. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-12-19T20:59:47.413Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/one-day-later-officials-scramble-to-add-trumps-name-to-the-kennedy-center

More importantly, Team Trump characterized the name change as a done deal, which it was not. Congress created the name for the Kennedy Center, and at no point did lawmakers delegate powers to the center’s board to rename the institution unilaterally.

The president’s operation, which has never been overly concerned with following laws, didn’t appear to care: By Thursday night, the center’s official website had been changed to include Trump’s name.

By Friday morning, crews were already hard at work. The Washington Post reported:

The Kennedy Center installed President Donald Trump’s name on its exterior Friday morning, a dramatic change to a building established by law as a ‘living memorial’ to a slain president. […]

A blue tarp was stretched across a portion of the building the next morning as a small team on scaffolding started the work. Loud drilling could be heard nearby. Inside the building, large letters spelling ‘Trump’ could be seen on the floor of the entry hall, according to a photograph obtained by The Washington Post.

It’s hard to know where to start with an initiative this ridiculous, but one of the first things that jumped out at me was the speed with which this came together. The president’s operation managed to acquire the materials, arrange the crews, secure the equipment and begin the installation work over the course of roughly half a day.

....Nevertheless, by midday Friday, the crews were gone and the arts center’s façade was changed.

I’m currently outside of the Kennedy Center:

— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) 2025-12-19T19:46:00.030Z

.......At this point, we could talk about the weird double “the.” We could also joke about the fact that this is now apparently a “memorial center” to two people, one of whom is alive.

While we’re at it, we could draw attention to the fact that the fonts don’t exactly match — and given the Republican administration’s interest in type settings, this is tough to overlook — while simultaneously noting the encouraging fact that the placement of Trump’s name will make it easy to take it down in the future without disturbing the original lettering.....

The president and his team have already gone to outlandish lengths to vandalize the White House. They’re now adding additional buildings to their target list.

[dalton99a]

31. +1

[electric_blue68]

54. Not sure I noticed at first that the letters were slightly different...

While, of course, the main issue is his defacement of the KC; as a former graphic designer I should have caught it right off! Ah, well.

[slightlv]

29. Gods, it didn't take him long to deface that building!

But we STILL don't even have concepts of an idea of a healthcare plan. He can move fast *when it suits him!"

And I'm short, but I'll sure hold the bottom part of the ladder for you!

[essaynnc]

30. I'll help too!

I make signs and install them for a living, so I have lots of experience ripping shit down off a wall! Please call me when you're ready to meet in Washington

[MichMan]

52. Do you use a pickaxe when removing signs?

[essaynnc]

53. Usually not....

Unless I'm absolutely absolutely angry at the customer! And try to cause the worst damage around the sign as possible!
These letters are probably stuck in holes in the wall with the little pins. I would probably come out with a good tug or a very small crowbar. This will limit the damage to the wall around where they are.
But in this case, a pickaxe might be in order!

[progressoid]

32. Hopefully sooner than that.

[LT Barclay]

33. She'll need a crowd to back her up. I'll be looking at taking the week off to help.

[Ilsa]

34. And dont forget the Institute of Peace. nt

[RainCaster]

35. I will use my retired bladder to water those letters once they are down

I'm sure a large number of us would do likewise.

[TommieMommy]

36. Yes yes yes 😁

[OhioTim]

38. Unfortunately

Republicans will probably rig all future elections so they never lose and continue allegiance to Trump. You never thought their intricate plans allowed for them to lose power, did you?

[Ruby the Liberal]

39. They should set up a tour schedule with busses and what not

I'd take a week off to watch all of the various sites being De-Trumped.

If the Universe has any justice, we won't have to wait that long - and can change the travel plans to piss on wherever they end up buring him.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

41. Oh, I think each one should be a national holiday with a televised event to detonate...

...small explosives to blow the grotesque name off of our walls--a different "enemy" pushing the button every time.

Think worldwide celebrations.

And then we pass a law requiring all new urinals installed to be DJT memorial urinals with his stupid-looking mouth being the hole....

We will have to come up with something for women....

[WhiskeyGrinder]

40. (you don't "apply" for a union card, a pickaxe is not a Carpenter's tool, and that is not a Carpenter's work)

[ChazInAz]

44. Very true.

However, since this is a Kennedy I rather doubt that anyone in the large family has ever been in a union, or could "tell a hawk from a handsaw"!

[ChazInAz]

43. What's next?

He's probably scheming to rename the Smithsonian and have a yard sale of its contents.

[Jimvanhise]

45. IN NEW YORK CITY. . .

They are already pulling Trump's name off of buildings in New York so what does he think will happen in Washington, D.C. in 2029?

[electric_blue68]

47. Oooo, they are?! Yay, sez this NYC'r.

[Heftylefty]

49. Desecration of Kennedy Center

I'm old and disabled, so I can't be of help. But I'll bring beer and pizza!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

50. You have to be dead to have your name on a memorial

[usonian]

51. Someone already spray-painted it. Elves? Elvis?