The renaming of the Kennedy Center might be a significant mistake. It's a status thing -- he, and any other New Amsterdam corporatist would likely try to do the same at the Met Opera or the Met Museum, and the point would be that they couldn't -- the social power of the boards. So it's a personal thing, and therefore risky, but there's also a philosophical wrinkle.
When the Republic becomes corrupt, the Machiavel comes along, the uncouth individualist who reminds everyone that moving fast and breaking things is part of what it means to be human, despite the increasingly museum-like silence of the Republic. But when the Machiavel attacks the hallowed individual personalities of the Republic, they're working against their own strength. Much wiser to wage war with an army of faceless bureaucrats.