Maria Shriver is not keen on Republicans’ plans to rename the Kennedy Center in President Donald Trump’s honor.
The journalist, who is the niece of former Democratic President John F. Kennedy, slammed a GOP bill aiming to rechristen the flagship performing arts center in Washington, D.C., in a Monday post on X, calling the move both infuriating and “petty.”
“This is insane. It makes my blood boil,” she wrote. “It’s so ridiculous, so petty, so small minded.”
Shriver went on to write, “Truly, what is this about? It’s always about something.”
Pointing to Trump’s revamp of another D.C. landmark, she wrote, ”‘Let’s get rid of the Rose Garden. Let’s rename the Kennedy Center.’ What’s next?”
Earlier this year, the president announced his plans to install cement over the White House’s iconic Rose Garden, which was created during Kennedy’s administration. The makeover appears on track to be completed by the beginning of August, according to The Associated Press.
Shriver’s criticism was largely aimed at a bill introduced by Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.) earlier this month, which potentially paved the way to “designate the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as the ‘Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts.’”
In a statement, the Missouri politician said, “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 efforts come on the heels of a similar proposal to rename the Kennedy Center Opera House after first lady Melania Trump.
Both moves could be against the law, which originally authorized the center’s construction, however.
Statute cited in an NBC News article states that, “After December 2, 1983, no additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.”
Back in February, Trump was appointed the chairman of the Kennedy Center after canning the previous bipartisan Board of Trustees, its president and its former chairman.