President Donald Trump's handpicked board voted on Thursday to rename the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., to the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House announced.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on social media that the vote was the result of the "unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building. Not only from the standpoint of its reconstruction, but also financially, and its reputation."

Roma Daravi, the center's vice president of public relations, said naming the institution The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts "reflects the unequivocal bipartisan support for America’s cultural center for generations to come."

Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty, an ex-officio member of the board, posted on X that she had been muted on the call when the vote was taken and was not allowed to make her opposition known.

In February, Trump announced that he was firing the performing arts center's board of trustees and naming himself chairman. He announced that same month that his foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell would serve as the center's interim executive director.

"The Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law," former Rep. Joe Kennedy said. "It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says