JFK’s Family Criticizes Trump After Kennedy Center Tantrum

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Kennedy’s niece and grandson ripped into Donald Trump after the president threw a tantrum during a Kennedy Center board meeting.

Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of JFK’s brother Robert F.

Kennedy, hailed Democratic Rep.

Joyce Beatty, 76, as a “national hero” after the Ohio congresswoman successfully challenged the Trump-controlled board’s effort to put the president’s name on the building.

“@RepBeatty is a national hero.

She has fiercely and courageously stood up for the Kennedy Center, for the arts, for Uncle Jack’s memory, for this country’s history, and most importantly, for the law, time and time again,” Kennedy said on X .

“We will not be bullied into silence or submission.

Thank you, Rep.

Beatty.

We are all so grateful for your leadership.” Beatty’s lawsuit resulted Tuesday in U.S.

District Judge Christopher Cooper blocking Trump, 80, from plastering his name on the historic performing arts center without congressional approval.

“Simply put, Defendants cannot install memorials for President Trump or anyone or anything else at the Kennedy Center without Congress’s blessing,” he wrote.

“The board resolution bucks a federal court order and a statute Congress enacted.” Trump tore into Beatty during a call with the Kennedy Center board, which he chairs.