(Washington) A powerful budget commission of the American House of Representatives adopted an amendment on Tuesday which would impose on the Kennedy Center, the prestigious cultural center of the capital Washington, to rename its opera room in “First Lady Melania Trump”.
The amendment was inserted into a financing text for the year 2026 of the Interior Department, responsible, among other things, cultural issues in the United States. It plans to cut the federal funds allocated to Kennedy Center if it does not rename the place known so far as the “Opera House”.
The elected representative of Republican Mike Simpson, at the origin of the amendment, defended Tuesday in committee his initiative honoring the First Lady as an “excellent way of recognizing her support and her commitment to the promotion of the arts”.
Since his return to the White House in January, Donald Trump has taken Kennedy Center under his thumb. After having reworked in mid-February the board of directors in dismissing several historic members, he was appointed to the head of the main cultural institution of Washington, promising to sweep the “Woke” culture there.
Committed to an ultracons-owner crusade against what he calls “anti-American propaganda” in art, but also in research and history, the American president has also regained control of several major museums in the capital.
Mike Simpson’s amendment is only the latest example of Republican elected officials at the Congress competing with flattery with regard to Donald Trump.
An elected representative of Caroline du Nord had issued a bill in January to rename the main airport serving Washington in “Donald J. Trump international airport”.
An elected representative of Florida had advanced another bill which would order the interior secretary “to ensure that the face of President Donald J. Trump is engraved on Mount Rushmore”. This southern Dakota monument has, on the mountainside, the sculpted faces of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
An elected representative of Texas had proposed that the face of Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the American nation, is replaced on tickets of $ 100 by that of the republican billionaire.
