Kerry Kennedy, the niece of former President John F. Kennedy Jr., hit back at President Donald Trump amid his legal battle to rename the center named for her late uncle.
“Focus on your job and leave the arts alone,” she told MS NOW’s Peter Alexander.
“This is the memorial to a slain president,” Kennedy said in an interview Friday morning. “Putting Trump’s name on it would be like saying it’s the Trump Lincoln Memorial or it’s the Trump Jefferson Memorial or it’s the Trump Memorial for the Unknown Soldier. No, that doesn’t happen. This is his memorial to our president, beloved President John F. Kennedy. Leave it alone.”
The former president’s niece, the daughter of the late Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, said Trump’s policies run completely counter to her late uncle’s legacy.
“My uncle really asked people to serve our country. He believed that government was there to help those who are most in need and to bring freedom to the widest possible number of people in our country and around the world,” she said. “And I don’t think that’s what President Trump is all about.”
Kennedy said Trump’s focus should not be on the Kennedy Center when “we’re in a place in our country now where people can’t afford gas, they can’t afford food, they can’t afford healthcare, they can’t afford childcare.”
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Allison Detzel is an editor/producer for MS NOW. She was previously a segment producer for “AYMAN” and “The Mehdi Hasan Show.”
