“As we reported earlier, after Trump allies began floating plans to rechristen the Kennedy Center in his own image, Morton quietly snapped up the domain trumpkennedycenter.org and filled it with the kind of deadpan satire that hits hardest because it barely exaggerates reality. The result? A perfectly skewered monument to authoritarian vanity — and, reportedly, a flurry of legal threats from lawyers who did not appreciate the joke.

Morton’s response was swift, surgical, and devastatingly funny.

“Satire is protected speech,” he wrote. “Confusion is a legal requirement, not a feeling. Political parody is not infringement. Criticism is not cybersquatting, and trademark law isn’t a panic button for institutions that don’t like being laughed at. I’ll proceed accordingly while you go fuck yourselves. Dog bless.””