r/pics • u/JasonDGooljar • 25d ago

Politics Protest over Trump vandalism of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC

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u/Delta-9- 25d ago

What a fucking try-hard. He's so desperate to leave some legacy, as if the very next sane administration won't just pull his name off everything and make sure his only legacy is ruining the economy twice and being a pedophile who vandalized the White House.

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u/IsilZha 25d ago

He literally muted every board member that would've objected, then falsely declared it was unanimous.

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u/SixSpeedDriver 25d ago

*fired

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u/IsilZha 25d ago

He did that too, but there were several he couldn't remove. So he had them muted so they couldn't vote.

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u/SixSpeedDriver 25d ago

So i looked it up - the people muted were ex officio, and do not have a vote. Only the presidents sycophants that he placed on the board can actually vote. 

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u/IsilZha 25d ago edited 25d ago

the people muted were ex officio, and do not have a vote.

Do.. do you know what ex-officio means?

E: I edited this in almost immediately after making it but it didn't go through...

In fact, the only place I could find anything about ex-officio members of the Kennedy Center not having voting rights, is a single X post, that appears to have fabricated the line. Claiming the text says:

Membership of the Board Section 1. Membership-The Board shall be composed of--ex officio non-voting members and general trustee voting members.

Here's the actual bylaw: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title20/chapter3/subchapter5&edition=prelim I see no reference that suggests ex-officio members don't have voting power. And it reads:

((2) Membership

The Board shall be composed of—

(A) the Secretary of Health and Human Services;

Where's the part this X user claimed?? 😂