• 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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    15 hours ago

    There’s even a difference between someone paying to have their name on a new building and someone renaming something that already exists though.

    Same in sports where a stadium has always been known by a name then it changes for sponsorship reason, it just doesn’t feel right. If the sponsor’s name was attached from opening then it’s fine.

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      Valid. Ill take it one step farther, and say that Trump’s actions were worse than even changing the name. The Kennedy Center is a tribute to Kennedy in the same way as the Lincoln Memorial or the Washington Monument. Making it the Trump-Lincoln Memorial or the Trump-Washington Monument would be a ludicrous idea, so why is making it the Trump-Kennedy Center acceptable?