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NextImg:Maria Shriver rips GOP bill to rename Kennedy Center after Trump: ‘This is insane’

Maria Shriver is blasting a GOP Congress member’s bill that aims to rename the Kennedy Center after President Trump, calling the move “petty” and “small-minded.”

“This is insane,” Shriver, a women’s health advocate and former President Kennedy’s niece, said about a bill introduced this month by Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.) that would “designate the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as the ‘Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts.”

“It makes my blood boil. It’s so ridiculous, so petty, so small-minded,” said Shriver, the daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver. 

“Truly, what is this about? It’s always about something,” Shriver, 69, said.

“‘Let’s get rid of the Rose Garden. Let’s rename the Kennedy Center,'” Shriver said.

“What’s next?” she asked.

Trump said in February that he planned to pave part of the Rose Garden at the White House — which was redesigned during the Kennedy administration — to create a patio similar to one at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida.

In a statement about the bill potentially stripping Kennedy’s name from the prominent Washington performing arts institution, Onder praised the commander in chief, saying, “I cannot think of a more ubiquitous symbol of American exceptionalism in the arts, entertainment, and popular culture at large than President Trump.”

Onder’s legislation came after House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee approved an amendment in July that would rename a space inside the Kennedy Center the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House” as a way to recognize her “support and commitment to promoting the arts.”

In a controversial move that prompted backlash, President Trump ousted the Kennedy Center’s board and named himself its chair in February. He’s accused the Kennedy Center, named in honor of the 35th president, of being too “woke.” After touring the center in March, Trump vowed to “fix it up.”