Maria Shriver is voicing her displeasure with a bill that could potentially rename the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
As former President Kennedy’s niece, Shriver is personally attached to the name. But if Rep. Bob Onder (R-MO) has his way, the building would be rebranded as the ‘Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts.’
Look:
This is insane. It makes my blood boil. It’s so ridiculous, so petty, so small minded. Truly, what is this about? It’s always about something. ‘Let’s get rid of the Rose Garden. Let’s rename the Kennedy Center.’ What’s next? https://t.co/0qC7YU6ObT
— Maria Shriver (@mariashriver) July 28, 2025
“It makes my blood boil. It’s so ridiculous, so petty, so small-minded,” she said. “Truly, what is this about? It’s always about something.”
“‘Let’s get rid of the Rose Garden. Let’s rename the Kennedy Center,” Shriver continued. “What’s next?”
This is likely a reference to a statement President Donald Trump made in February, indicating he planned to pave a portion of the Rose Garden to replicate he patio from his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. The Rose Garden was redesigned during the Kennedy administration.
Onder believes the renaming of the center would be appropriate to honor the current president.
“I cannot think of a more ubiquitous symbol of American exceptionalism in the arts, entertainment, and popular culture at large than President Trump,” the representative said. The move comes after the approval of a space named the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House” within the Kennedy Center. This was suggested as a way to celebrate her “support and commitment to promoting the arts.”
X users weighed in on Shriver’s outrage:
Now she knows how I felt when they renamed Ft. Lee the very base I did my training and had good memories of but her Lefty side had to go and change it.
— Augustine M. Aasland, M.Div (@Kingjames8289) July 30, 2025
I doubt Trump even wants this.
It wasn’t his bill.
— Maryland Election Integrity Group (@EFFE4USA) July 29, 2025
Perhaps Maria Shriver would be happier if they renamed the ‘Kennedy Center’ as the “Mary Jo Kopechne Center for the Performing Arts” in honor of the woman Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge and left in his car to drown without notifying anybody for 10 hours.
— CatDog99 (@dog99_cat) July 29, 2025
Maybe those Kennedys should’ve been a little bit nicer to their cousin/brother. Just saying.
— Kate Johnson (@kaideejay) July 29, 2025
The same people who cheered the destruction of civil war monuments are now upset about altering names and art
— Js ha (@Poodleface02) July 29, 2025
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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