The latest edition of “CNN Saturday Morning Table for Five” featured an intense discussion about President Donald Trump’s name being added to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, after one of the panelists defended the move and invoked 2020′s racial justice protests in doing so.
“This is incredibly disrespectful to JFK,” said comic Paul Mecurio. “He was a commander in chief, he served, he lost his life serving our country. This would be no different than if we decided to start changing names on the Vietnam memorial. People would be up in arms.”
This led to The Federalist’s election correspondent, Brianna Lyman, to argue that the criticism from Democrats is “disingenuous” — even though it was Trump himself who chose the board members who voted for the “Trump-Kennedy Center” name change.
“I personally don’t care that much,” Lyman said. “But I do find it funny, Paul, that you care and that the Kennedys care, because no one in your party cared in 2020 when you guys were changing names of hospitals, parks, schools, streets, everything in the name of George Floyd.”
Mecurio interrupted to note he isn’t even a Democrat, but Lyman barreled on.
