"Screenshot via Comedy Central A prescient writer for the irreverent Comedy Central show South Park correctly predicted that President Donald Trump would slap his name on the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, so he bought up Trump-Kennedy Center web domains to troll the president. Writer Toby Morton bought the trumpkennedycenter.org and trumpkennedycenter.com domains back in August and is now plotting how best to parody Trump's vanity, according to The Washington Post."
"As soon as Trump began gutting the Kennedy Center board earlier this year, I thought, Yep, that name's going on the building,' Morton told The Post. Morton said that when a politician starts blowing up in the news, he snags the relevant domain name and begins building a parody site as a form of political activism. Morton also owns NancyMace26.com, MTG2026.org, and ResignChuck.com, targeting Democratic Senate Minority Leader Rep. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)."
"Morton said there's one domain opportunity that got away from him that he'll forever regret: A domain having to do with CNN's Jake Tapper before the release of the book he co-wrote, Original Sin, about former president Joe Biden's decline. Morton hasn't revealed what he plans to do with the Trump-Kennedy Center domains, but he told WaPo it'll absolutely reflect the absurdity of the moment. Lots of surprises. Some things are truly hard to parody, though."
Toby Morton purchased the trumpkennedycenter.org and trumpkennedycenter.com domains after predicting President Trump would attach his name to the Kennedy Center. Morton acquires politically relevant domains when politicians rise in the news and builds parody sites as political activism. He already owns domains targeting other politicians and regrets missing one tied to Jake Tapper before a book release. Morton has not revealed specific plans for the Trump-Kennedy Center sites but says the project will capture the absurdity of the moment. The Kennedy Center is portrayed as an institution meant to honor culture, not serve as personal branding, making satire inevitable.
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