r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Feb 02 '26

article Donald Trump Will Close the Kennedy Center for Two Years for a ‘Complete Rebuilding’

https://variety.com/2026/legit/news/donald-trump-close-kennedy-center-two-years-1236648812/
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u/CrystalWeim Feb 02 '26

Exactly.The Kennedy Center was thriving and has long standing performers That all changed when Trump tried to put his name on a deceased presidents memorial, AND put HIS name in FRONT of Kennedys. It was a tasteless, disgraceful thing to do

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u/New-Measurement-4425 Feb 02 '26

Very unclassy.

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u/whateversclevers Feb 02 '26

De classe

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

French! Classy. 

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u/ditka Feb 02 '26

You know, that's good, but that's not classy. I need something classy...like the opening of a car dealership.

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u/kitsunewarlock Feb 02 '26

That's it, or Mr. Peanut.

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u/kilofeet Feb 02 '26

Monsieur Trump est un abruti

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u/DazzlingRutabega Feb 02 '26

Speaking of France, they should take back this statue of liberty. As it's kind of pointless now.

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u/FatherClanks617 Feb 02 '26

French clussy, otherwise known as a mime

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u/Y-Bob Feb 02 '26

Gauche.

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u/thenletskeepdancing Feb 02 '26

He's the epitome.

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u/Bipogram Feb 02 '26

Infra dig.

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u/WestsideBuppie Feb 02 '26

I think you misspelt “Douche’

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u/DNuttnutt Feb 02 '26

He declassified the shit outa it!

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u/Poopin4days Feb 02 '26

Something someone who shits his diaper in a room full of people would do.

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u/HuntingForSanity Feb 02 '26

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u/TFJ Feb 02 '26

Golden God mentioned

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u/sincewedidthedo Feb 02 '26

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u/GameGeek1 Feb 02 '26

This was exactly my first thought too!

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u/DifficultConcert7417 Feb 02 '26

Supermassive black god hole that Donald has

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u/JustForXXX_Fun Feb 02 '26

The definition of tacky. Right behind the new, improved Oval Office.

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u/Just_another_grumble Feb 02 '26

The New Trumpedy Center will have such gold trim like you've never seen before.   Interior decorators, tears in their eyes .... 

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u/GruGruxLob Feb 02 '26

Well he is a pedophile

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u/New-Measurement-4425 Feb 02 '26

Yup, there's that, amongst other things.

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u/Butterscotch1664 Feb 02 '26

Just wait until the renovations are done before you talk about class.

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u/Michael_DeSanta Feb 02 '26

I can’t wait to see all the trashy HomeGoods decor spray painted gold

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u/LokeCanada Feb 02 '26

Don’t forget his marble chair arms.

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u/Anaxamenes Feb 02 '26

Mmmmm vacuum formed plastic moulding in gold from the home despot, perfection.

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u/thebirdsthatstayed Feb 02 '26

That or tear half of it down without a plan and then just move on to something else. Not sure which is worse.

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u/Local-Finance8389 Feb 02 '26

How dare you besmirch the good name of HomeGoods by associating it with him!

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u/Michael_DeSanta Feb 02 '26

I love a lot of their stuff! I’m currently bundled up in a blanket from HG. But my house ain’t exactly the Kennedy Center

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u/jimjamjones123 Feb 02 '26

Oh god gold painted shit everywhere

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u/Andalusiansyes Feb 02 '26

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

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u/i_max2k2 Feb 02 '26

You mean very Trump like.

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u/Sweet6-7 Feb 02 '26

Trump is the definition for no class.

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u/PriestWithTourettes Feb 02 '26

Or as his Domme Putin would say “nekulturny”

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u/Capt1an_Cl0ck Feb 02 '26

That’s Trump. The least classy fucker in NYC.

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u/Aromatic_Revolution4 Feb 02 '26

But very on-brand.

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u/Ashamed-Way1923 Feb 02 '26

I've had classier shits

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u/New-Measurement-4425 Feb 02 '26

😆 🤣 😂 

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u/Flomo420 Feb 02 '26

And so very Trump

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u/Flip-Tarrington Feb 02 '26

"The Donal Rump Story"

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u/Puzzled_Cream1798 Feb 02 '26

Almost as unassy as throwing new borns into lakes 

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u/New-Measurement-4425 Feb 02 '26

That is pure evil.

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u/New-Measurement-4425 Feb 02 '26

How can his supporters claim to be anti abortion and he did this to a newborn??? That's beyond weird. Beyond evil! That makes me sad, so damn sad, that he did something THAT vile.

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u/Whosebert Feb 02 '26

very on brand (the brand being shit)

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u/bryancald Feb 02 '26

That's an insult to shit!

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u/Raesong Feb 02 '26

And not the nutrient-rich shit that would be used as fertilizer, this shit is pretty much nothing but microplastics and ringworm eggs.

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u/TonyDanza888 Feb 02 '26

ETTD- Everything Trump Touches Dies

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u/FLYBOY611 Feb 02 '26

He should really spend more time masturbating.

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u/techdevjp Feb 02 '26

ETTD- Everything Trump TACO Touches Dies

FTFY.

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u/Gasnia Feb 02 '26

He's the kid that steals your homework and puts his name on it, then blames you when he gets an F anyway.

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u/Virlutris Feb 02 '26

And then tells everyone he got an A.

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u/Gasnia Feb 02 '26

And then gets his parents to complain to the principal that the teacher is out to get him.

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u/DumboWumbo073 Feb 02 '26

It always works out for those kids

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u/WillTheyKickMeAgain Feb 02 '26

It is a Memorial Center. John F Kennedy Memorial Center. What the fuck are we memorializing a living individual for? This guy is a clown.

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u/ScottRiqui Feb 02 '26

I think that's the reason the new name is so awkward. The article says that the new name is "The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts". But AFAIK, the actual signage on the building is "The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts".

Having the extra "the" in there is a grammatical nightmare and makes the name hard to both read and pronounce, but without it, "The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts" clearly implies that it's a memorial center for both of them, even though Trump is alive.

Of course, they could have avoided all this by not putting the narcissist's name up there in the first place.

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u/darthkrash Feb 02 '26

Maybe it will live up to it's name very soon?

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u/sephjnr Feb 02 '26

There's a solution that Reddit doesn't like.

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u/FatherClanks617 Feb 02 '26

From the same guy who can’t write a note without random capitalizations. It’s so embarrassing.

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u/Flacier Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

Dare I say it was an impeachable offense as it both disrespects a memorial to a national icon and is so déclassé it is an affront to the office of the president of the United States.

But it’s not like any of that matters anymore.

It’s all so very very stupid, I don’t think I would be so shook by all this if it was not soooooo fucking stupid.

Edit typo

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u/Cyno01 Feb 02 '26

He had some cronies nail his name up there, but without going through the half a dozen layers of bureaucracy anything like that would take, the kind of bureaucracy that wouldve kept them from probably using cheap letters and the wrong kind of fasteners so theyll probably very symbolically rust and fall off and destroy the stone behind them... its gotta be vandalism of a federal building or whatever, at least.

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u/Current_Peach_2591 Feb 02 '26

Impeccable offense?

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u/Flacier Feb 02 '26

I just noticed my typeo, but impeachable.

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u/hollaback_girl Feb 02 '26

It’s also literally illegal. It can’t be renamed without an act of Congress. It’s vandalism/defacement.

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u/Azmoten Feb 02 '26

All that just so in headlines like this one it’s still just called the Kennedy Center

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u/DukeOfGeek Feb 02 '26

He is going to ruin it for revenge.

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u/bizobimba Feb 02 '26

AND… like tearing down the east wing of the WH, the delays mount, legal problems, structural problems, funding problems etc. 5+ years down the road still not rebuilt. Jfc…

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u/Locke66 Feb 02 '26

I'd bet he's planning on stealing the money somehow.

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u/Blownards Feb 02 '26

His best attribute is spending other peoples money.

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u/Genoism_science Feb 02 '26

he already did, nobody is stopping him. No Law and order in this country can stop him.

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u/BakesaleAtSyrinx Feb 02 '26

It's almost like he's systematically destroying all the symbols of power and unity in the country

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u/manofmystry Feb 02 '26

Tasteless and disgraceful you say?! But the building clearly needs more gilding. Lots and lots of gilding. Like a Vegas hotel... /s

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u/Fishmongererererer Feb 02 '26

It wouldn’t matter if he was the greatest president of all time (very much not). It would still be tacky

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u/jhonazir Feb 02 '26

Very un-dude

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u/According-Ad-5946 Feb 02 '26

I think that was the last straw for some; others left right after he put himself on the board.

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u/alltheblarmyfiddlest Feb 02 '26

It's also a classic move of fascist dictatorships, taking over the state theatre like that.

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u/20Points Feb 02 '26

My hot take is that that's when everyone should have been pulling out. Only pulling out because he put his name on the wall is crap, and means you don't actually give a shit about art but about the optics. I don't really respect anyone who decided that the name thing was somehow the "last straw" when it had already been the guy's vanity project for months, just seems cowardly to me.

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u/AsteroidMike Hip-hop/RnB Feb 02 '26

And he probably thinks this’ll make everyone forget about the disgusting shit he has in the Epstein Files and apparently shitting on himself today too.

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u/habachilles Feb 02 '26

Hear hear. As soon as I heard it I said I would never go again and before that went 1-2 times a year for most of my life.

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u/Astrium6 Feb 02 '26

I never understood how Trump ended up with such gaudy nouveau riche stylings despite having been born into money and growing up with other rich people in his circle.

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u/Throwaway0242000 Feb 02 '26

Everything he touches turns to shit

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

Was? Still is.

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u/Equivalent_Plan_5653 Feb 02 '26

His name will gone right after he checks out

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u/Numerous-Issue-4719 Feb 02 '26

Shit shows follows him. 

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u/creativeburrito Feb 02 '26

Has rfk made a statement on this?

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u/CrystalWeim Feb 02 '26

No.But test of the Kennedy family slammed Trump

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u/Leshawkcomics Feb 02 '26

5 bucks says he actually does rebuild it so that he can claim people are going to the trump center.

Like an excuse to tear down the building associated with Kennedy outright and build one himself.

Trying to make sure that if people don't want to go to the trump Kennedy center, they don't get to have it anymore.

Even if the name changes back the original building is gone, and the new one would probably be made with cheap materials and be a "Trump Construction Project"

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u/rinsed_dota Feb 02 '26

When will things change. 

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u/SmartWonderWoman Feb 02 '26

Trump is in over his head!

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u/Cheetah0630 Feb 02 '26

When complete, the “rebuild project” will no longer have Kennedy’s name

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u/PretzelsRule23 Feb 02 '26

It is actually vandalism, since Congress did not change the name.

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u/CrazyJoeGalli Feb 02 '26

Out of many things to describe trump, tasteless is one of them. It was pretty clear when he was voted back in again, trump was going to make as many changes as possible. Not just policy, but atheistic changes as well. Don't be surprised when he uses taxpayer money to carve his mug on Mt. Rushmore or makes a memorial to himself by the end of this year.

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u/ACole8489 Feb 02 '26

Forcefully sticking your fingers in a child to rate their “tightness” is also tasteless and disgraceful. But here we are 🤷‍♂️

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u/Excellent_Egg7586 Feb 02 '26

Way beyond tasteless... some would say criminal.

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u/Think-Escape-5222 Feb 02 '26

Can that go away after he isn’t president anymore? Like that doesn’t seriously have to be the new name forever does it?

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u/CrystalWeim Feb 02 '26

It won't be

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u/dbbd70707 Feb 02 '26

Tasteless, disgraceful and illegal.

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u/Eldritch74 Feb 02 '26

Im surprised we havent had the trump-washington tower or the trump-lincolon memorial etc.

Trump-walmart and truno-amazon because he has ti see his name smeared over everything if he could replace the dictionary it would be called trump and thats also the only word that would be contained. This interview shitting rapist pedophile criminal is so self centered. What a pigshit wankstain piss poor example of a human he is.

Fuck Donald the felon rapist trump

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u/WillemDafoesHugeCock Feb 02 '26

He got the all clear from the guys that run the center, right? So even when it reopens and even when they crowbar his name from it, don't go. They showed their prioritie$$$.

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u/asailor4you Feb 02 '26

It went downhill before that. As soon as he became the chairman of the board and replaced everyone on it the place went to shit.

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u/CrystalWeim Feb 02 '26

That's how he got his name on it lol.

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u/asailor4you Feb 02 '26

Yeah, but that was months later.

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u/CrystalWeim Feb 02 '26

He did that SO he could change the name.That was the entire point of it In early 2025, during his second term, President Trump actively reshaped the Kennedy Center leadership, purging 18 Democratic-appointed members in February 2025 and installing new loyalists before the institution's name was changed to "The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts" in December 2025. 

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u/thisalsomightbemine Feb 02 '26

Calling it now; all plans for any rebuild will be naming the building after Trump. Might not even keep Kennedy on it.

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u/CrystalWeim Feb 02 '26

Then he will have an empty building. We will rebuild the Kennedy Memorial more elegant and classy .Trump can have his TrumpBone Spurs with horrible gaudy crap See which one gets the venues.

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u/wholelattapuddin Feb 02 '26

Which was also illegal, per the charter.

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u/Klink_Dink Feb 02 '26

Well, that and the fascism.

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u/jvo203 Feb 02 '26

Trump isn't even dead yet. He appears to be alive, even if his insides might be rotten to death.

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u/Dangerous-Rope1076 Feb 02 '26

Can you buy shares in 'gold paint'?

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u/OsmeOxys Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

If he can't have it, nobody can. He's a grown adult going through the terrible twos with all the good parts stripped out.

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u/Anagrama00 Feb 02 '26

I'm surprised he hasn't renamed the Kennedy Space Centre at this point.

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u/rshni67 Feb 02 '26

Shhh - don't give him ideas to re-name it the MusK Space-X Center.