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Posted by bob <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/GraniteGossip/info/user=bob' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 27, 2025, 1:14 am

"Republicans move to rename Kennedy Center’s iconic opera house after Melania Trump."
What a kick in the ***** to the Kennedy family. Start your own arts center and name it what you want. I just can't go for the renaming thing.
I'm sorry everyone if this gets more word soup started from that pillow guy.

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Posted by Soccer <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/GraniteGossip/info/user=Soccer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 27, 2025, 10:35 am, in reply to "more renaming"

This particular renaming is also an example of Trump using extortion to get what he wants.

Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee approved more than $32 million for the Kennedy Center under one condition - that the Opera House be renamed for first lady Melania Trump. There was an amendment added to the bill by Congressman Mike Simpson of Idaho. It still needs a full House and Senate vote, and it's not clear if it'll get a vote anytime soon.

I agree, Bob, this renaming needs to stop.

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Posted by Joe Smith <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/GraniteGossip/info/user=Joe+Smith' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 27, 2025, 12:07 pm, in reply to "Re: more renaming"

Ah, so now it needs to stop? Where was everyone earlier when they were renaming military bases and aircraft carriers?? And of course destroying monuments was not an issue at all.

RIP Ryne Sandberg.

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Posted by Millgirl <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/GraniteGossip/info/user=Millgirl' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 27, 2025, 12:37 pm, in reply to "more renaming"

Bob

I agree with you on this renaming of the Kennedy Center.

There is no logical reason for naming it after Melania Trump. She does not even live at the White House.

I doubt that it will get through the House and Senate To making funding a conditional to the renaming is extortion..

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Posted by Bluangel <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/GraniteGossip/info/user=Bluangel' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 27, 2025, 2:53 pm, in reply to "more renaming"

Okay, I don’t care for renaming much either and I hate graffiti being painted on buildings, plus I loathe historical monuments being toppled and destroyed.

But, further inquiry reveals this, “a House panel advanced a measure to rename a venue at the Kennedy Center in honor of Melania Trump.

The theater is presently designated as the "Opera House," located between the "Concert Hall" and the "Eisenhower Theater."

The Kennedy Center will remain as such.

The Opera House is a venue, basically a rented hall, provided at the Kennedy Center.

Along with the Opera House is the Concert Hall and the Eisenhower Center.

Soccer and Millgirl, you can stop slobbering now.

The immigrant ~ Melania Krause Trump

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Blue

Please inform us on what Melania Trump has contributed to make America a better place...I know she did nude photo's of herself//what else has she done?

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Posted by MyPillowGuy <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/GraniteGossip/info/user=MyPillowGuy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 27, 2025, 4:30 pm, in reply to "Re: more renaming"

Nothing to see here.

Be Best,
Mpg

Aaaaarggghhh! Chainsaaaaawww!

-fElon Musk

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Blu, it doesn't matter which part of the Kennedy Center they want to rename... there is no logical reason for it. Are you telling me that funding is not dependent on this passing?

I couldn't find any significant examples of Melania's "support and commitment to promoting the arts".

I only occasionally slobber over a good steak or maybe cheesecake.

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Joe - I don't recall anyone discussing the renaming of military basis, aircraft carriers, it was just as stupid. I think there was a discussion on here about the moronic renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.

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I seriously do not have an opinion on this, considering it is just a theater within the Kennedy Center complex.

It clearly doesn’t just cater to the opera genre as the current name implies, but also to ballet, musicals and other artistic performances.

I have no opinion.

I certainly hold no judgement or resentment to the woman for some partial nude professional modeling photographs that she did in her early 20s like MG seems to have.

Geez, look at Jlo’s outfits during family hour televised.

The immigrant ~ Melania Krause Trump

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Blue

Geez, look at Jlo’s outfits during family hour televised.

What has that got to do with naming a part of the Kennedy center after Melania, who posed totally nude in her late twenties...she says she is proud of it..look it up...

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I am certain she did not pose for full frontal nudity.

The immigrant ~ Melania Krause Trump

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Kayleigh McEneny is 27 and her husband is 60.

Cough.

Cough.

Creeps run together,
mpg

Aaaaarggghhh! Chainsaaaaawww!

-fElon Musk

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Here you go Blue...it is Melania herself defending her nude modeling..

ww.justjared.com/2024/09/18/melania-trump-addresses-her-past-as-a-nude-model-explains-why-she-stands-behind-it/

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better link for Blue

https://www.justjared.com

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OMG!

Did you judge Demi Moore by these same standards when she showed as much skin while posing for Playboy while in her 3rd trimester of pregnancy?

Nevermind.

At any Hollywood red carpet event you will see as much skin as Melania exposed while being photographed.

Heck, right here in Granite City you will be seeing more tank top cleavage than the First Lady, back in her 20’s exposed.

She carries and dresses with great style and class, beats a polyester pant suit any day.

As I said, she never did full frontal nudity and you can’t prove otherwise.

The immigrant ~ Melania Krause Trump

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Posted by Soccer <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/GraniteGossip/info/user=Soccer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 28, 2025, 2:48 pm, in reply to "Re: more renaming"

What's interesting is Melania Trump was granted an EB1-Visa, nicknamed the Einstein Visa which, in theory, is reserved for people who are highly acclaimed in their field - the government cites Pulitzer, Oscar, and Olympic winners as examples - as well as respected academic researchers and multinational executives.

Remind me, which one is she? One could argue she is no Einstein. Third rate model? Maybe

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Blue

the people you compare are not, nor have ever been First Lady. No one is demanding that a Opera House be named for them..

Trying to divert or change the topic from Melania Trump to others just does not make sense at all...

The point of this entire post is naming a portion of the Kennedy Center after Melania.

I will again ask you what she has contributed to America to earn this honor.

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“The math ain’t mathin”

Dang, Soccer!

“Pull my little string and I’ll do anything … I’m your puppet,”Jasmine.

I’m guessing Melania met the criteria.

To work in this country she had to apply for a Visa, she went for that one, met the criteria and received it.

The immigrant ~ Melania Krause Trump

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And as I have responded numerous times, I have no opinion on this.

It’s not changing the name of the Kennedy Center, only a venue provided by the complex.

The immigrant ~ Melania Krause Trump

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If the legislation passes and you feel the center has been tainted by the TRUMP name, that’s on you and anyone else who feels the same.

The immigrant ~ Melania Krause Trump

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Perhaps ICE needs to follow up and find and gather her evidence that she's Einstein material.

Marrying and staying with King Trump would be sufficient to see her IQ could be as low as 70.

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From what I’ve read, her IQ is higher than Albert’s.

She is fluent in 4 different languages, that’s a plus.

The immigrant ~ Melania Krause Trump

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"from what I've read"..... I'd have to see a link to that claim

as far as all the languages she speaks-- see if you can find a clip of her speaking any of those languages fluently... she has visited schools in France and Italy, engaging with children, she greeted them in the most basic local language, but then quickly reverted to English... hmmm...

Honestly, I don't fret much over Melania, she's mostly irrelevant in all that is Trump. She does the bare minimum as the First Lady.

Blu - if you wanna believe she is some type of super intelligent has-been model, knock yourself out.

Oh, one more thing... she was fluent in the language of Michelle Obama... that speech was brilliant.

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