Politics

The Center’s website also already reflects the name change—but quibblers might note that the site’s actual domain does not. It remains “kennedy-center.org”. There’s a reason for this: the domains “trumpkennedycenter.org” and “trumpkennedycenter.com” are already taken. They’re owned by comedian and scriptwriter Toby Morton, who has written for South Park and Mad TV. In his downtime, Morton has made a habit of acquiring official-sounding domains for satirical purposes: he already owns around 50 such sites, including nancymace26.com (“I don’t legislate, I litigate grudges”) and mtg2026.org (“Building a whiter tomorrow!”).

Morton told the Washington Post that he has something similar planned for these domains: “[They will] absolutely reflect the absurdity of the moment,” he promised. In a moment of clairvoyance, he purchased them earlier this year after Trump announced that he was firing the Center’s entire board. (“We will soon announce a new Board,” the President wrote on Truth Social at the time, adding that the new board would feature “an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!”)