Kennedy Center renaming

Subject in Politics

Kennedy Center renaming has come up in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts in TMT, including The Megyn Kelly Show, Pod Save America. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.

What people said

Megyn KellyConservative broadcaster and podcaster

Kelly argues Trump's Kennedy Center overhaul was an attempt to correct decades of left-leaning programming.
“But Trump was trying to fix a center that had been pandering to the left for decades”
The Megyn Kelly Show: Michelle Obama Upstages Barack, Euros Love America, and 2028 Rumblings, with Rich Lowry and Charles C.W. Cooke | Ep. 1341 (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 1:03:28

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Norm EisenAmerican lawyer, former Obama White House ethics czar, co-founder of Democracy Defenders Fund and publisher of The Contrarian

Eisen says documents obtained via a restraining order showed the promised one-year Kennedy Center review never occurred.
“it turned out there had been no one-year review of the kind that was promised”
Pod Save America: 50 Shades of Legal Gray (May 24, 2026) · Listen from 46:51

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Episodes discussing it, by month of release.

Podcasts

The Megyn Kelly Show · 1 episode
Pod Save America · 1 episode

Episodes

Michelle Obama Upstages Barack, Euros Love America, and 2028 Rumblings, with Rich Lowry and Charles C.W. Cooke | Ep. 1341
The Megyn Kelly Show · Jun 17, 2026 · 1 h 41 min
Megyn Kelly, Rich Lowry and Charles C.W. Cooke discuss the Iran deal, 2028 GOP divisions, the Obama portrait, the UFC White House event, World Cup tourists and culture-war controversies.
50 Shades of Legal Gray
Pod Save America · May 24, 2026 · 1 h 5 min
Alex Wagner and Norm Eisen discuss Trump's $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, IRS audit immunity, stock trades, construction projects, and legal and electoral pushback.