Trump this.

[fallsguy]

 

[KaraBulut]

Lies. Lies. Lies.

If it's bad, then it's Joe Biden's fault. If it's good, then Trump takes credit for it, even when he did not do it.

In his rant behind a podium this week, Trump claimed that the tariffs brought in so much money that he was sending the American troops a check for $1,776 as a "warrior dividend".

That's a lie. Congress included the money in the Big Beautiful Bill that passed months ago and had nothing to do with Trump or with his tariffs. It was intended to be an adjustment to assist with rent costs that have accelerated since the pandemic.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/18/trump-warrior-dividend-troops-congress-00697375?brid=Zj9JnScIrHlnI6EAS_4H4w

Trump claims credit for military bonus that Congress already approved

The White House’s plans for a “warrior dividend” to reward troops this holiday season are actually housing assistance funds approved this summer.

President Donald Trump’s promise Wednesday to pay troops a “warrior dividend” bonus is actually a military housing stipend already approved by Congress, and not a generous new White House program.

The rebrand, confirmed by a senior administration official and two congressional officials, follows a pattern for the president, who has previously claimed credit for routine military pay increases that weren’t his doing.

The $1,776 per person bonuses, unveiled by Trump in his nationwide address Wednesday night, will be covered with funding approved in the Big Beautiful Bill that passed in July, according to the congressional officials and later confirmed by the Pentagon.

 

[rareboy]

The Trump playbook. Slap your name on something someone else did.

 

[fallsguy]

 

[fallsguy]

 

[rareboy]

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I wonder how long this was in the works before being announced.

 

[KaraBulut]

I wonder how long this was in the works before being announced.

It will eventually be removed by court order.

In the meantime, the Democrats need to start naming things after Trump.

Here's an idea:

 

[rareboy]

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[rareboy]

It will eventually be removed by court order.

In the meantime, the Democrats need to start naming things after Trump.

Here's an idea:

I doubt it actually.

I suspect that a court can't simply overturn the decision of the Board. It will have to be a lawsuit to force the Board to do it and I suspect this has SC written all over it eventually.

TrumpCo. knows what it is doing and it is likely going to move with even greater haste to get Trump's name on lots of things.

Sanders talking about a bill to prevent things being named after living presidents is a non-starter unless the Dems take Congress and a lot of them are now going to be thinking that
there are a whole lot of buildings they would like to name after living Dem presidents.

 

[KaraBulut]

I doubt it actually.
I suspect that a court can't simply overturn the decision of the Board. It will have to be a lawsuit to force the Board to do it and I suspect this has SC written all over it eventually.

The Kennedy Center was created by an Act of Congress named in honor of a President who had been slain while in office. If that's the price to get one's name on the building, he may get his wish yet, if history is any indication.

In the meantime, the Kennedy Center Board has no power to rename the building and Trump's builder's attitude of tear things down and then get permits is eventually going to be overturned. It's a fiction created by Trump, enabled by co-conspirators on the Kennedy Center Board and tacitly allowed by Republicans in Congress. Elections, however, have consequences.

Did the Trump-Kennedy Center board violate federal law by renaming facility?

Donald Trump showed little interest in the Kennedy Center during his first term

www.independent.co.uk

 

[rareboy]

I can't think of a single agency or body that would supply the personnel to remove Trump's name.

And I can't think that any Board would do this without having some heavy hitting legal advice on this before voting.

I'll bet we are going to find out that there's nothing in the Act that would constrain future boards on issues such as this.

And I can pretty much guarantee that the current Congress will do nothing to force the change back as they try to curry favour with der Fuhrer and his thugs.

 

[fallsguy]

 

[fallsguy]

 

[Alistair]

 

[Alistair]

 

[rareboy]

I will be interested to see how the Trump admin argues this in court. They definitely will and they will most certainly present legal opinions and arguments.

One argument they can use is that any official paper mention of the center will still only refer to it as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and that Trump's name will be unofficial...just like the Department of War, thereby not contravening the letter of the law.

I suspect that they will be relying on Congress to sanctify the move with a retroactive amendment to the original Act that permits Trump's name to be added.

And watch the GQP move to do this.

And watch this whole thing drag out until Trump is dead and then the naming things after living presidents issue is no longer a thing.

 

[rareboy]

Kerry Kennedy has indicated that she plans on taking a crowbar to pry off Trump's name the day after he is out of office and is getting her certificate so it will be a union job.

 

[FrodoTX]

 

[FrodoTX]