Kennedy Center removes Trump's name from website, but keeps it on facade
A federal judge ruled last month that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts had been illegally renamed in Trump's honor and that its name should be removed.
The facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
On Monday, the Kennedy Center removed President Donald Trump's name from the performing arts center's website. However, the building in the nation's capital that houses the Kennedy Center continues to display, for the time being, Trump's name on its façade.
A federal judge, AFP recalled, ruled last month that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts had been illegally renamed after Trump and that his name should be removed.
In December, the center's board of directors voted to change its name to the "Trump Kennedy Center" and the Republican president's name was added to the facade in large letters, above Kennedy's.
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The center's website also displayed Trump's name next to Kennedy's, but that was no longer the case this Monday.
Judge Christopher Cooper, in his May 29 ruling, said only Congress has the right to change the center's name and gave the administration 14 days to remove Trump's name from the facade and any materials associated with the site.
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Trump lashed out at the judge and said he was disengaging from the "exhausting" venue.
"Unless I am free to do what I do better than anyone else, bring this Institution back, physically, financially, and artistically, I have no interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey into 'NEVER NEVER LAND'," he said on Truth Social.
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