Just last week, House Republicans approved an amendment to a spending bill that would designate the Kennedy Center’s Opera House as the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House.” Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) introduced the amendment, which passed the Appropriations Committee by a vote of 33–25.

In the early 1960s, Democrat President John F. Kennedy launched a fundraising initiative, and his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson, signed into law a 1964 bill renaming the project the John ...