The bill from Missouri Republican Rep. Bob Onder is called the "Make Entertainment Great Again Act," but it focuses on one particular venue: the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Significant obstacles stand in the way.

A new GOP House bill flirts with the idea of stripping John F. Kennedy's name off his own Kennedy Center memorial in Washington, D.C., and instead referring to the institution as the 'Donald J. Trump

Last week, Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg ripped the consideration on Instagram, writing, “Plain reading of the statute makes clear — You cant do that.”

The move comes after last week's vote to rename the Washington D.C. arts center’s opera house after First Lady Melania Trump

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, and Dr. Mehmet Oz, right, listen during a swearing in ceremony for Oz to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in the Oval Office of the White House, April 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) AP

House Republicans raised a question last week when they advanced an amendment to a spending bill that would change the name of the Kennedy Center’s Opera House to the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House.

The journalist and niece of former President John F. Kennedy called the proposal “petty” and “small minded” in a post on X.