Dec. 23 (UPI) -- The addition of President Donald Trump's name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the capital was done illegally, Rep. Joyce Beatty said in a lawsuit.

“I'm not saying we should care about him or have any compassion for him,” the president’s niece said while giving her bleak opinion.

Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio argued in her lawsuit that adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center violated federal law.

President Donald Trump put his name on the Kennedy Center because he desperately wants to be loved—something he didn’t feel enough as a child, his niece says. Mary Trump, a psychologist and the author of Too Much and Never Enough, told the Daily Beast Podcast that her uncle’s renaming of the memorial to John F. Kennedy is an “absolutely obscene” attempt to do the impossible: “fill a black hole.” “I’m trying to contain my contempt,” Trump, 60, told host Joanna Coles about Trump’s action, which ig