Workers begin removing Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center, hours after a court-ordered deadline
A federal judge said only Congress can change the center’s name, and the board’s last-minute appeal failed after a 14-day removal order.
- Workers began taking down President Donald Trump's name from the facade of the Kennedy Center early Saturday morning, narrowly missing a court-ordered Friday night deadline.
- Severe regional thunderstorms delayed the physical removal process Friday night, prompting the venue's legal team to successfully request a brief extension until Saturday noon after safety concerns forced workers to temporarily halt their efforts under newly erected scaffolding.
- The physical dismantling followed a string of swift legal defeats for the Trump administration, as both a federal district judge and a D.C. Circuit appellate panel rejected emergency, eleventh-hour appeals from the Justice Department to freeze the removal order.
- The legal battle was sparked by a lawsuit from Representative Joyce Beatty , an ex-officio board member who challenged the reconstituted, Trump-allied board's December decision to rename the venue "The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts."
- U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled the original name change illegal, clarifying in his opinion that Congress explicitly designated the building as the sole living national monument to John F. Kennedy, meaning only legislative action—not a board vote—holds the authority to alter its name.
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Trump's name has been removed from the Kennedy Center, a court filing says, as tarp remains up
President Trump’s name was removed from the front of the Kennedy Center Saturday, according to a notice of compliance filed by the administration. The removal comes after federal courts denied last-minute attempts to halt a deadline for the name to come down. The administration has “removed signage ‘that purports to name the Kennedy Center after President Trump,'” updated the center’s website, and withdrawn relevant trademark applications, attor…
President Trump's Name Comes Down At Kennedy Center After Court Fight
President Trump’s name is coming off the Kennedy Center facade after a fast court fight ended with crews on scaffolding in Washington, D.C. Fox News reported that workers began removing the signage Friday after an appeals court refused to block a judge’s ruling ordering the name down. President Trump's name is being removed from the Kennedy Center after a federal appeals court denied the board's request for an administrative stay. Crowds gather…
Kennedy Center removes Trump’s name from facade
WASHINGTON — After a night of storms, both political and meteorological, workers removed President Donald Trump’s name from the white marble facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts early Saturday, responding to a federal judge’s ruling that its rebranding was unlawful. The post Kennedy Center removes Trump’s name from facade appeared first on Hawaii Tribune-Herald.
According to the court ruling on the renaming of the Kennedy Center, US President Trump's name has been removed from the building facade.
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