South Park Writer Buys ‘TrumpKennedyCenter’ Domain Names for Troll President
Last week, President Donald Trump’s name appeared on the Kennedy Center’s facade, website and social media accounts. The organization’s new name, after what the White House said was a unanimous vote by its board of directors, is “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.” Experts say renaming the Kennedy Center is illegal.
But the Kennedy Center is not the current owner of trumpkennedycenter.org or trumpkennedycenter.com — because comedy writer Toby Morton registered those two domain names in August, expecting Trump and his allies to add Trump’s name to the DC monument.
“As soon as Trump started gutting the Kennedy Center board earlier this year, I thought, ‘Yes, that name will be on the building,’” Morton said recently. told the Washington Post. “The Kennedy Center has always been a cultural institution meant to outlast any administration or personality. It is meant to celebrate culture, not ego. Once it was treated as personal branding, satire became inevitable.”
Obtaining domain names and using them to troll politicians has been an active pursuit for Morton, whose credits include “South Park” and “Mad TV” (and once provided the voice of Scott Tenorman, Eric Cartman’s half-brother and nemesis, on “South Park”). Morton, whose biography on BlueSky says he is an “anti-fascist website creator,” has not yet launched any websites at trumpkennedycenter.org or trumpkennedycenter.com. But he promised that if he does, they will “definitely reflect the absurdity of the moment. Lots of surprises. Some things are really hard to parody, though.”
Variety has contacted the Kennedy Center press office for comment.
Morton, in one post on BlueSky marveled this week at the supportive responses from readers who responded to the Post story. “I’m so used to hating comments that this one from the Washington Post article feels downright refreshing. Also, a few old heroes of mine are quietly on board now, which helps. PRO TIP: Maybe you shouldn’t mess with an institution like The Kennedy Center? Support is growing. Watch this space.”
According to the Washington Post, Morton runs about fifty political parody sites. That mtg2026.org, which makes fun of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia); nancymace26.com, a fake site mocking Rep. Nancy Grace (R-South Carolina); and resignchuck.com, targeting Democratic Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York).
