Roma Daravi, vice-president of public relations at the centre, in a statement to the Post, defended the renaming, saying the “bipartisan Trump Kennedy Centre is here for generations to come”. “The Kennedy Memorial is not impacted at all,” Daravi said. Today, the centre’s website prominently referred to itself as the “Trump Kennedy Centre”, but in other sections it continued to use the name “the Kennedy Centre”. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy jnr is an ex-officio member of the centre’s board. “Some things leave you speechless,” Maria Shriver, a niece of John F. Kennedy, said on X.

Source: New Zealand Herald December 24, 2025 11:31 UTC