Former “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd reacts to President Donald Trump’s fascination with attaching his name to the Kennedy Center on CNN’s “The Arena” with host Kasie Hunt. <\/p>\n
CHUCK TODD: By the way, there’s something really troubling about a living human being who needs to put their name on somebody else’s tombstone. Because that’s what this is. This is Washington, D.C.’s tombstone to John Kennedy. And it’s gross. And let me speak one other thing as a local. I’ve been an Arlingtonian now over 20 years, and this is our art center in this community. And it’s offensive the way he’s come in and just like, he doesn’t spend any time here. This was it. And he’s just essentially saying, well, if you don’t put my name on your art center, I’m going to tear the whole thing down. So I know he doesn’t care about the local community, but man, it is an extra finger in the eye. But the part of this that, look, she brought up all — that he’s now becoming the exact person he actually campaigned against, the elitists of Washington. I keep coming back to, what living individual wants to put their name on somebody else’s tombstone? I just find that so disturbing. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n