"The Board of Trustees-or, if one prefers, the Board of Toadies-at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has renamed it the Trump-Kennedy Center. The 47th president of the United States approves. Trump's appetite for flattery appears as insatiable as the supply of bootlickers among his followers appears inexhaustible. He also blessed engraving his name on the U.S. Institute of Peace building and delivered a cartographic decree that the Gulf of Mexico would henceforth be called the Gulf of America."
"Meanwhile, his secretary of defense, in between haranguing generals about physical fitness and ordering the U.S. Navy to engage in the killing of criminals without trial, has renamed the Department of Defense "the Department of War" (illegally, as it happens). Pete Hegseth has also gone about renaming bases that were once named after Confederate generals (traitors, the lot of them, and for the most part incompetent military leaders)"
Donald Trump and close allies have renamed prominent institutions and places to reflect his name and preferences, including the Kennedy Center, parts of the U.S. Institute of Peace, and a cartographic renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. The secretary of defense has renamed the Department of Defense "the Department of War" and rebranded bases formerly named for Confederate generals with the same surnames but supposedly honoring different people. These actions are characterized as offensive, puerile, and likely temporary; maps and institutional names are predicted to revert under a future Democratic administration. The renamings function as symbolic acts driven by vanity and power projection.
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