{"id":75497,"date":"2026-06-29T05:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/trump-renaming-fiasco-fuels-jokes-as-maher-takes-kennedy-centers-mark-twain-prize\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T05:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:02:29","slug":"trump-renaming-fiasco-fuels-jokes-as-maher-takes-kennedy-centers-mark-twain-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/trump-renaming-fiasco-fuels-jokes-as-maher-takes-kennedy-centers-mark-twain-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump renaming fiasco fuels jokes as Maher takes Kennedy Center\u2019s Mark Twain prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punchlines on president\u2019s thwarted bid to have building named after him come thick and fast at Washington DC gala<\/p>\n<p>Outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/\">John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts<\/a>, a giant tarpaulin remained in place to conceal Donald Trump\u2019s humiliation.<\/p>\n<p>Guests entering the national arts complex on Sunday night could not see the section of its marble facade where Trump\u2019s name was recently erased to comply with a court order.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2026\/jun\/29\/bill-maher-mark-twain-prize-donald-trump-rename-kennedy-center\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punchlines on president\u2019s thwarted bid to have building named after him come thick and fast at Washington DC gala Outside the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a giant tarpaulin remained in place to conceal Donald Trump\u2019s humiliation. Guests entering the national arts complex on Sunday night could not see the section of &#8230; <a title=\"Trump renaming fiasco fuels jokes as Maher takes Kennedy Center\u2019s Mark Twain prize\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/trump-renaming-fiasco-fuels-jokes-as-maher-takes-kennedy-centers-mark-twain-prize\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump renaming fiasco fuels jokes as Maher takes Kennedy Center\u2019s Mark Twain prize\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}