"On Thursday, the board of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts voted to rename the center "the Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts." Weirdly, the board of the center, mostly picked by President Donald Trump, does not seem to understand that a "memorial" center is named for someone who is deceased, and thus the new name implies that Trump is dead."
"American political culture has long rejected he idea that sitting officer holders, or even living persons, should be honored with buildings or institutions named for them, or have their names and faces on currency, coins, or postage stamps. This sort of behavior is alien to a republic and a democracy. It is common, however, in dictatorships. Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Francisco Franco had heir faces on stamps, currency, and coins during their respective despotic reigns."
"The first United States stamps featured Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, many decades after their deaths. Our coins reflect this tradition as well, with Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John F. Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Susan B. Anthony, and Sacagawea getting their faces on coinage posthumously. The tyrannical Confederate government, on the other hand, put its leaders on stamps and currency, breaking with the long United States tradition o"
The board of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts voted to rename the center the Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center and physically added Trump’s name to the building. A memorial center traditionally honors the deceased, so the change implies Trump’s death and breaks long-standing American norms against honoring living officials. American political culture has avoided placing living leaders’ names or faces on buildings, stamps, or currency, a practice more associated with dictatorships. The United States has historically commemorated leaders on stamps and coins posthumously.
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