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Workers begin removing Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center, hours after a court-ordered deadline
Crews began taking down the letters after judges ruled the board lacked authority to add Trump’s name.
- 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 is still on the Kennedy Center — officials say it will be down by noon
President Donald Trump's name remained on the facade of the Kennedy Center early Saturday despite a court-ordered Friday deadline to remove references to Trump from the building.
·Georgia, United States
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Trump's name removed from Kennedy Center in predawn operation
Workers stripped U.S. President Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center early on Saturday, less than six months after it went up, complying with a judge's ruling that the performing arts landmark cannot be renamed without an act of Congress.
·New York, United States
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