In unmistakable South Park fashion, a former writer ensured President Donald Trump enjoyed neither peace nor applause. Thus, when the Trump-chaired board renamed the Kennedy Center on December 18, 2025, the ceremony unknowingly stepped onto a stage already dressed for mockery.

In August 2025, comedian and former ex-South Park writer Toby Morton quietly acquired trumpkennedycenter.org and trumpkennedycenter.com, anticipating a political rebrand. The move followed President Donald Trump’s early 2025 efforts to restructure the John F. Kennedy Center board, as reported by The Washington Post.

After the administration announced the renaming of the venue to the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, Morton activated the domains, turning them into deliberately confrontational satire linked directly to the official decision.

The websites present pointed imagery and language, including the tagline “A National Institution Devoted To Power And Loyalty.” Visuals replace the Kennedy Center’s columns with jail cells, while programming references include “The Epstein Dancers,” anchoring satire in specific political associations.

Aside from his interview with The Washington Post, Morton described the project to The Hollywood Reporter as a corrective, arguing satire became unavoidable once cultural landmarks were treated as personal branding. Subsequent interviews with other outlets connected his motives to broader concerns about power, narcissism, and institutional symbolism.

In fact, this is not Toby Morton's first rodeo with buying domains for political satire

Why Donald Trump is not the first prey of Toby Morton's political satire

Since 2019, former South Park and MADtv writer Toby Morton has turned domain acquisition into political satire. Operating under the self-described 'First Church of Petty Digital Revenge,' as can been seen in his professional bio on Substack, Morton has purchased over 100 domains anticipating political moves before official campaigns respond.

This practice relies on pre-emptive digital squatting. Morton registers authoritative-looking addresses, often pairing candidate names with future election years, then converts those domains into parody sites that visually resemble campaign pages while delivering documented critiques grounded in public records.

Several projects illustrate the method’s reach. MomsForLiberties.com launched in 2023 mimicked a civic organization while cataloging extremist rhetoric, which Morton argues helped defeat multiple school board candidates by reframing the group’s agenda for undecided voters.

Beyond that effort, Morton expanded targets across parties. Sites such as MTG2026.org labeled Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ideology directly, while NancyMace26.com mocked reimbursement controversies, reinforcing Morton’s claim that satire functions best when precision replaces exaggeration.

Written by

Iffat Siddiqui

Edited by

Aliza Siddiqui