This Legend’s Gutsy Showdown With Trump Has Jaws On The Floor — Here’s What She Said That’s So Satisfying

Filed 1h ago · Via HuffPost · The Buffoon Desk

THIS STORY IS SCORED

Merry Go Slower

Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

Photo: Ypsilon from Finland · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) described a heated confrontation with President Trump over his push to attach his name to the Kennedy Center, telling MS Now it was ‘the most unprofessional thing’ she had witnessed. She said Trump called her incompetent and an obstructionist, and that she fired back that he was the incompetent one.

The dispute followed a federal judge's rejection of the Kennedy Center board's latest attempt to add Trump's name to the building, a decision the administration has appealed. Roughly half an hour after that ruling, the board voted to close the center, citing dire financial and structural conditions. Trump has said he will halt renovations unless his name is added, and claimed on Truth Social he put $17 million into the center to ‘keep it afloat.’

Beatty, an ex officio Kennedy Center board member since 2019 and a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the renaming effort, told CNN she believes Trump targeted her personally because of that suit. Her office did not respond to a request for comment on the exchange.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.

✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK

A president threatening to let a national landmark fall apart unless his name goes on the wall is the kind of story that would sound made up if it were not sitting right there in the public record. The comeback about bankruptcies is the sort of line that writes its own singalong, but the actual news is a federal judge, twice, saying no. When the building matters less than the signage, you know exactly whose priorities are on the marquee.

Source: Read the original at HuffPost → Scored: Merry Go Slower · Kevin MacLeod · CC BY 4.0

Read it scored.

Every story, every clown, every kazoo — in your pocket. Music plays automatically. Regret is optional.

GET IT ON iOS GET IT ON ANDROID

OR FOLLOW THE DESK ON BLUESKY →