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Trump dismisses report on talks to add name to Ford's Theatre: 'Ridiculous lie'
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President Trump on Wednesday dismissed a report that alleged his administration pushed to include his name on Ford’s Theatre, calling it "a ridiculous lie.” “The story that the White House, or me, want to affix my name to Ford’s Theatre, in Washington, D.C.
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The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
President Trump is reportedly looking for a way to stick his name on Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.—where former President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed in 1865. MS NOW reported that the theatre is one of multiple different establishments floated by aides as potential targets for the “Trum…
Trump has, however, sought to add his name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and successfully placed his name on the Institute of Peace building.
President Donald Trump denounced reporting by MS NOW that administration officials have floated attaching his name to Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where an assassin killed President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
The president dismissed the report, calling it a “ridiculous lie,” and saying he wouldn’t want his name attached to such a “tragic place” where Lincoln was assassinated.
MS NOW reported on Wednesday that the Washington, D.C. theater, where John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, was among the list of sites being considered to have Trump’s name attached to it.
President Trump on Wednesday dismissed a report that alleged his administration pushed to include his name on Ford’s Theatre, calling it "a ridiculous lie.” “The story that the White House, or me, want to affix my name to Ford’s Theatre, in Washington, D.C.
Donald Trump has claimed that it’s completely unbelievable that he would put his name on a theater commemorating an assassinated president. But he wasn’t talking about the Kennedy Center. MS NOW reported Wednesday that top Trump officials were already mulling over the next American landmark to be co…
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