Trump demands Kennedy Center Opera House be named after his current wife, or lose all federal funding
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See if you can guess what happened next!
Buried in amendments to the Interior Dept. Gov funding bill, is a stipulation that the Kennedy Center Opera House must be renamed the ‘First Lady Melania Trump Opera House’ in order to receive federal funds.
The House Appropriations Committee has voted to rename the Kennedy Center Opera House in Washington, D.C., after First Lady Melania Trump — a move tucked into a broader government funding bill aimed at avoiding a potential shutdown in late September.
While no Republicans voted against it, one Democrat, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), a moderate and co-chair of the Blue Dog Caucus, voted in favor of the amendment. The final vote was 33-25.
While I will defer to my more knowledgeable FPers from the lumberjack and Nike corner of the United States on this question, I somehow doubt that Rep. Perez will pull many votes from Washington state’s not at all crazy Republican voters as a result of this heartwarming bipartisan gesture.
Speaking of heartwarming bipartisanship, Barack Obama has responded to that whole “you committed treason by investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, of which there was none, and by none we mean ‘a certain amount.'”
“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.
“Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes. These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio.”
I’ll free ride on Karen’s expertise in regard to what totally not bought and paid for fascist mouthpiece Matt Taibbi has to say about this, as he’s been spending the last few weeks pumping this particular lie/hallucination.