Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board of trustees, disputed the White House’s claim that the vote was “unanimous” to rename the performing arts center to the Trump-Kennedy Center.
In a short video post on the social platform X, the Ohio Democrat said she tried to voice her opposition to the name-change decision but was muted on the call and not permitted to speak.
“For the record. This was not unanimous,” she wrote in a message along with her video.
She also said the vote was not on the meeting’s agenda, adding, “This was not consensus. This is censorship.”
Beatty also pushed back on the legality of the name change, noting, “Clearly, the Congress has a say in this. This center, the Kennedy Center, was created by the Congress.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced earlier Thursday that the Kennedy Center’s board — whose members were hand-selected by President Trump — voted “unanimously” to rename D.C.’s renowned performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center.
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