Opinion: The Kennedy Center Is Gone, Just Like Trump Wanted: Wolff

He just can’t help himself, even when his demanding, baby-bully impulses, like putting his name on the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, are clearly bad politics.

However unpopular and unseemly, these antics nevertheless put him once again and ever-more at the center of attention, which, in the new political math, or at least Trump political math, creates something like a zero-sum effect: people hate him more, and his polls suffer, but by his sheer omnipresence, and will to dominate, his core supporters don’t love him less. And since the Democrats are weak and disoriented, he can, by just continuing to be Donald Trump, often eke out a win.

A view of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts which was recently renamed the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC on December 29, 2025. / Anadolu / Anadolu via Getty Images

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