Wow, Congress just gave a quiet F.U. to Melania & we’re guessing Tr*mp’s not gonna like it

Sorry, Melania, but Congress thinks you’re just not opera-house material.

On Monday, the House and Senate appropriators released a “minibus” funding bill they hope to pass quickly to avoid another government shutdown, and some of it will piss off the Cheeto-in-Charge to say the least.

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Many of the “major spending cuts” demanded by Tr*mp were axed, and even pettier: They decided not to rename the Kennedy Center’s opera house after the First Lady.

We live for the drama!

Notably, the Department of the Interior not only axed funding for the heinous change, but refused to call the iconic D.C. theater its, erm, ridiculous new name, the Tr*mp Kennedy Center. (Please resist the urge to vomit.)

ICYMI: Last month, the venue voted “unanimously” last month to rename the building formerly known as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Of course, this only happened after our chief dumb*ss took over the board, but are we surprised?!

Since the ridiculous change, many artists have yanked performances off the calendar in protest.

In fact, Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz made headlines this week for dropping out of a scheduled gala appearance.

As he wrote in a statement, “The Kennedy Center was founded to be an apolitical home for free artistic expression for artists of all nationalities and ideologies. It is no longer apolitical, and appearing there has now become an ideological statement. As long as that remains the case, I will not appear there.”

Plus, former South Park writer Toby Morton majorly trolled the administration by having the foresight to purchase both “trumpkennedycenter.org” and “trumpkennedycenter.com” before one of Tr*mp’s lackeys could get to it.

It seems, no matter how hard he tries, both the theater-enjoying population — read: the gays and our allies — and Congress are not going to let Tr*mp’s little Kennedy Center charade go down without a fight.

To be fair, it’s the least the latter could do for the American people, considering Dems caved to the Republicans during the last government shutdown. Which was, let us remind you, the longest in history.

Nevertheless, a figurative middle finger is of little help.

Tr*mp will probably change the name of the opera house anyway, and, regardless of what’s in the docs, we’re already stuck with that ugly name on the Kennedy Center signage.

At least we can move in peace knowing a cultural institution like the Kennedy Center Opera House was not willingly changed to honor the flop FLOTUS.

Unfortunately, we will just have to ignore the programming at the Tr*mp-Kennedy Center for the next three years, which currently includes the premiere of Melania’s horrific-looking new documentary and a run of Shen Yun.

We wish we were kidding.

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