When President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited the Kennedy Center last month to see “Les Misérables,” part of the crowd booed when the couple stood up.

A Republican contingent is singing the praises of first lady Melania Trump by proposing naming the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Opera House after her.

An even more dramatic change came this week, as the Republican-led congress announced that they would be pushing to rename the performing arts space, “The Melania Trump Opera House,” reversing a deci...