Trump renamed the Kennedy Center for 1 reason, and it’s a ‘tragedy’

Mary Trump Pushing his “insult” to offer a pretty compassionate — albeit sad — why president Donald Trump Slap “His name in all.”

During Thursday’s episode The Daily Beast PodcastHost Joanna Coles asked Trump’s niece — who is a psychologist and an outspoken critic of her uncle’s politics — about why the president decided to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center. The Kennedy Center was named in honor of President John F. Kennedy in 1964, just months after he was assassinated in November 1963.

“I’m going to stop my contempt,” Mary Trump prefaced, calling the move “obscene” and “illegal” by noting to change the organization’s name. It needs to be approved by Congress.

“Also, last time I checked, you shouldn’t actually name things after living presidents, current or former,” he added.

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Mary Trump was then asked to give her opinion on why her uncle decided to change the name.

“He wants to turn every public place in America into some version of WWE or Ultimate Fighting,” she said, referring to the president’s taste in culture. “And it’s just ironic that he thinks it somehow legitimizes him or gives him the same stature and standing as someone like President Kennedy. But that’s partly why he’s doing it — for himself.”

She continued, “But here’s the thing, it’s never going to be enough. Ever.”

Mary Trump said she believes the president is “trying to fill an unfillable void” thanks to his upbringing and early relationship with his parents.

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“And the reason is really quite simple: Although Donald was my grandfather’s favorite child — and by favorite I mean the most useful to him, the most useful to further his own agenda — my grandfather and my grandmother made Donald the favorite,” Mary Trump said.

“The only thing, the thing he wants most in his life, is to be loved. He was never enough. He never will be. That is an impossible thing for him to achieve.”

She explained the reason Trump puts his name on “everything,” from sticks to Bibles to buildings (some of which he doesn’t even own). “All in the service of filling an unfillable black hole.”

“And I think if we can take a step back and separate ourselves from the horrible things that this man did, that’s a tragedy. It’s a tragedy to say that about another human being. I’m not saying we should care about him or have any pity for him. Although I have a lot of pity for that kid.”

She continued: “Because his needs will never be met, and he will never be able to fight them in a real way because he’s just a horrible little boy who can’t face the truth about himself, we’re all suffering,” she said.

When Coles asked Mary Trump if she thought her uncle was “conscious” of this, she replied that he probably wasn’t, “but he definitely understands it on a deep, unconscious level.”

“And so a lot of his mental and emotional energy is spent protecting himself from that knowledge. It’s a full-time job,” she said.

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Mary Trump emphasized how “obscene” it was that someone as uncultured as her uncle would want to stamp his name on a center for the arts. Earlier in the interview, Mary Trump recalled spending the holidays at her grandparents’ house in a room the family called “the library.”

“And, yes, it was called a library, but there were no books in it [Donald Trump’s 1987 book] ‘Art of the Deal’ was published,’ she said.

She also emphasized that Kennedy’s relationship with art was very different from her uncle’s.

“If you look at some of the things President Kennedy said about the importance of the arts and what we should aspire to do as a country — a lot of those quotes painted on the facade of that building — it underscores how serious he is.” Mary Trump said. “Donald doesn’t care about the arts. He and his administration have underfunded or defunded them.”

He has a point. Trump administration Moved to eliminate federal funding National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities and Institute for Museum and Library Services.

“I look forward to an America … that rewards achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft,” one of Kennedy’s quotes. Mock reading at the Kennedy Center. “I look forward to an America that will continue to raise standards of artistic achievement and that will continue to expand cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America that is respected around the world not only for its power but also for its civilization.”

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