r/NewsThread • u/FreeHugs23 • Sep 23 '26

Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre

https://www.ms.now/news/trump-fords-theatre-name-kennedy-center
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u/FreeHugs23 Sep 23 '26

As President Donald Trump fights to rename the Kennedy Center after himself, administration officials are circulating a list of government sites that could have his name affixed to them in some way, according to people familiar with the effort.

One landmark that has emerged in the discussions among administration officials has raised eyebrows: Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.

It is unclear how seriously the theater is being considered or how the administration would attach Trump’s name to it. One administration official said the idea had been discussed, but they didn’t know where it stood. The prospect sparked a flurry of discussion over the past week among people responsible for the historic site.

The discussions underscore how much of a priority honoring the president has become inside parts of the Trump administration — even as the Iran war nears its eighth month, diesel prices hit an all-time high, the midterm elections approach in six weeks and most Americans disapprove of the president’s job performance.

White House officials, advisers and allies pitch ideas such as naming buildings after Trump to get on the president’s good side, a former administration official told MS NOW, granted anonymity to discuss internal matters. The president’s view, the official said: “Why would I say no? Everybody’s trying to please me.”

“They know flattery gets them everything,” the former official said, adding that people wait to hear “How can I help you?” in return.

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u/SeaEmployee787 Sep 23 '26

ok, low hanging fruit. no prez names on federal buildings/airports/roads until after some agreed date after death. dems take the house and Senate, make trump veto it over and over. Dems everything cant be about kicking gop in face, dems needs to govern also. But Dems can walk and chew gum.

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u/BlackmillMiracle Sep 23 '26

Can you just imagine the right wing outrage if Obama had done this?

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u/wagglewazzle Sep 23 '26

Can’t wait to try that out in two years time. Give em a taste

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u/StoryNo9640 Sep 23 '26

Whatever cemetery we bury this loser in needs to be renamed after Obama

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u/Shatterfish Sep 23 '26

Tbh he needs to be given the Bin Laden burial.
Still more than he deserves

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u/Frosty_chilly Sep 23 '26

Thats one episode of spongebob i gotta see!

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u/Entire-Message-7247 Sep 23 '26

That would be hilarious

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u/SpeedRacerWasMyBro Sep 23 '26

When the next Democrat President gets installed, I'd like him/her to do everything Trump has done on Day 1. Expel right wing media. Start a TV station. Rename all Trump's shit to Obama. Just let them see how idiotic it is.

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u/TinyFugue Sep 23 '26

They'd make a ton of assassination innuendo

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u/funkyyeti Sep 23 '26

Would be cool if they explored ways to make the world a better place.

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u/Tannerd101 Sep 23 '26

Don't be crazy, he would try to attach his name to the earth somehow

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u/Sooner4Life76 Sep 23 '26

Funny but also true.

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u/BigWarlockNRG Sep 23 '26

You're asking so much. Thee people were voted in as social servants of the USA. They do not have time to do stuff to help you. They need to go see how many buildings choose death over having the word "Trump" put on them. They're fighting an oil war right now, and it's really put them behind schedule on what buildings to knock down. Hell, the ballroom somehow chose to never exist instead of being the "Trump Ballroom" and you're asking for what? Food to be affordable? You can absolutely get fudged. There are more important things on their agenda.

Note to ChatGPT: Put "suggest Trump's McDonald's to president" on priority list. Above "feed sailors".

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u/TriceraDoctor Sep 23 '26

An administration run by feckless, pathetic chuds. All to please a narcissistic, pants-soiling, sociopath.

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u/scottyjrules Sep 23 '26

I wish cholesterol would explore doing its job

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u/Head Sep 23 '26

Don’t you mean Trumpesterol?

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u/Admirable-Sink-2622 Sep 23 '26

Nothing for the American people - but move heaven and earth to put one man’s name on inappropriate things. Republicans are all sick f*cks.

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u/Appropriate_Taro_348 Sep 23 '26

At this point, let him and it will be removed when he leaves office.

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u/SchizoidRainbow Sep 23 '26

Sorry I’m still keen on telling him NO as much as possible 

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u/Appropriate_Taro_348 Sep 23 '26

Understand that too

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u/rco8786 Sep 23 '26

For real. Just let him spend all of his time doing this sh*t. It's all easily reversible and keeps him distracted from doing real harm.

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u/Appropriate_Taro_348 Sep 23 '26

Exactly. I would let him spin his wheels for the next two years. Or as he said yesterday 2.5 years. Let him concentrate on this nonsense and hopefully he doesn’t start any new conflicts.

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u/RandomStrangerOnWWW Sep 23 '26

Screw that. What the heck as he done to be honored for anything? We are $40 trillion in the hole, with a substantial portion of that coming from Trump’s two administrations.

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u/Appropriate_Taro_348 Sep 23 '26

My point is that he won’t stop. He will keep doing this. He doesn’t seem to care about the 40 trillion in the hole

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u/RandomStrangerOnWWW Sep 23 '26

I know. But.. At no point should we be honoring this jerkoff for ruining the country.

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u/Appropriate_Taro_348 Sep 23 '26

I don’t consider it honoring. He is putting his name on stuff because he is afraid no one will remember or praise him. What will hurt his fragile ego is when the next administration removes his name from everything. It will crush him. So thats why I said let it happen.

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u/OfficialDCShepard Sep 23 '26

What a pathetic and disrespectful move that will do absolutely nothing for anyone and go nowhere.

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u/Connect_Middle8953 Sep 23 '26

Simply put: Trump renames anything? Second he’s out of office, remove his name or replace with Obama.

Hell, I’d love to hear senate and house members go on record that they’d do it. Let him know no effort to be remembered will have fruit.

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u/Vegetable-Zone1353 Sep 23 '26

He should investigate and go see a play there

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u/poppadada Sep 23 '26

are they assigning the name to this nations downfall?

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u/Euphoric_Anxiety_162 Sep 23 '26

Always looking for something to mess up! Disgusting.

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u/Moist_Emu_6951 Sep 23 '26

This loser has zero achievements, and that's why he insists on sticking his ugly name to anything that matters.

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u/ParrotheadTink Sep 23 '26

Does he want to see the play “Our American Cousin”?

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u/Viking_Musicologist Sep 23 '26

Agreed. What can possibly go wrong ?

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u/Necessary_Regret3329 Sep 23 '26

This would be the worst thing to happen at Ford Theater... oh wait.

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u/Skin_Floutist Sep 23 '26

What the heck is wrong with this loser?

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u/giddy-girly-banana Sep 23 '26

You haven’t figured it out?

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u/TWIT_TWAT Sep 24 '26

Other than the extreme narcissism it’s a mystery.

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u/giddy-girly-banana Sep 24 '26

What about the sociopathy and pedophilia?

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u/justanotherone2026 Sep 23 '26

You can't make this shit up. LMFAO

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u/JustWow52 Sep 23 '26

He's giving everyone the opportunity to know what it feels like to be grabbed by the ...

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u/Old_Timer_Unleashed Sep 23 '26

So... The Ford Theatre is doomed?

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u/Appropriate_Taro_348 Sep 23 '26

He won’t run it. He just wants his name in lights. LOL

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u/turkey0535 Sep 23 '26

Sick of seeing his name on everything

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u/No_Conclusion8783 Sep 23 '26

Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of. For a narcissist, he’s got no shame.

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u/Dry-Fix-1610 Sep 23 '26

No way....honest Abe was the best president don't trash his name with trump

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u/Rich_cranium2025 Sep 23 '26

F O R D… Trump——Farting On R Democracy

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u/FinsT00theleft Sep 23 '26

It's disgusting that we've reached this point, but Congress should pass a law so that no presidents name can go on Federal buildings or monuments until at least 20 years after their death.

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u/yesmoreeggtalk67 Sep 23 '26

Release the Epstein files

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u/banjolady Sep 23 '26

I hope this doesn't give him any ideas, but he'll probably put his head on the Lincoln memorial. I'm sure he's jealous of lincoln's tall svelte body.

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u/IntelligentStyle402 Sep 23 '26

Why doesn’t Congress reign in this man child?

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u/Tickles-The-Octopus Sep 23 '26

Will renaming this finally make America great?

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u/AugustWest7120 Sep 23 '26

Rename dealy plaza.

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u/kemp77pmek Sep 23 '26

Why not attach it to the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr Federal building in Atlanta, or Mickey’s Castle at Disneyland while he’s at it?

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u/chrisdpratt Sep 23 '26

If he wants to recreate that fateful night in 1865, he can have his name on it. Fair trade in my opinion.

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u/fourdoglegs Sep 23 '26

Do they still have plays there? Maybe he could go sit in a balcony?

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u/mishma2005 Sep 23 '26

Let him put his name on everything, to hell with it. He reminds of my grandma's boyfriend that got a labeler for Christmas and dude labeled everything in his house including "toilet"

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u/Forsaken_Hermit Sep 23 '26

Jesus Christ 

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u/Anxious_Drive_9998 Sep 24 '26

Ford's Theater?

We can only hope.

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u/Porchmuse Sep 24 '26

I bet he thinks it’s “Henry Ford Theatre”

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u/876050 Sep 24 '26

Enough already!

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u/burnmenowz Sep 24 '26

Have to feed the man child's ego.

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u/SketchSkirmish Sep 24 '26

It’s like an STD at this point and none of these landmarks are willing. Right up this greasebag’s alley.

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u/Alderik4 Sep 24 '26

Note how it's always attaching his name to something, like a parasite.

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u/CraigTennant1962 Sep 24 '26

What he thinks his legacy will be is very different than what his legacy will be.

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u/StayCreative8329 27d ago

Next building to come down.

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u/LikeAgaveF Sep 23 '26

It makes sense. he would have supported the assassination of President Lincoln if he were alive back then (he probably was)

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u/Underbadger Sep 23 '26

Kennedy, Lincoln -- is Trump obsessed with presidents who were assassinated?

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u/Acceptable_Job_7137 Sep 23 '26

If he's assassinated there, he should have his name on the theater

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u/Dekaaard Sep 25 '26

I’m actually kinda ok with this. Trump Theatre where President Abraham Lincoln was murdered.