Another Donald Trump disregard of the rules meeting a judges’s disapproval….
ANOTHER spanking….
Trump’s rebranding action actually cost the place HUGE support…
It IS part of Donald , The Real Estate guy trying to turn Washington D. C. into ‘Trump Land’…..
President Donald Trump’s effort to rebrand the Kennedy Center in his own name is illegal, a federal judge ruled Friday.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said the rebranding of the institution that honors President John F. Kennedy as the “Trump-Kennedy Center” violated the clear language of federal law that requires the building to honor “President Kennedy and President Kennedy alone.”
The order to revert to the original, longstanding name came as part of a broader ruling that also overturned a plan announced in March to close the center for two years for renovations. Cooper, an Obama appointee, said repairs to the campus can proceed and an outright closure in the future might be lawful if the center’s board is more thoroughly consulted.
But he blasted the board for making its closure decision based on “an insufficient, one-sided presentation of information” that “neglected to consider the full range of its statutory obligations and potential adverse consequences of closure on programming and memorial functions.”
Hours after the ruling, Trump said in a social media post that he would abandon his pursuit of a Kennedy Center redesign and direct his administration to transfer oversight of the center to Congress.
Cooper’s ruling is a stinging blow for Trump, who has made clear his personal stake in the rebranding and remodeling of the Kennedy Center. Officials at the performing arts center told Cooper in evidentiary hearings about Trump’s direct involvement even in the minutiae of the redesigned campus and ballrooms, from the details of the chairs to the plans for exposed steel on the exterior to the design of the decorative columns.
A spokesperson for the Justice Department said it “will continue to defend President Trump’s ability to restore the Center to its former glory as the finest performing arts center in the country — if not the world.”
Roma Daravi, the center’s vice president of public relations, said it remains “committed to pursuing every lawful avenue to ensure the Trump Kennedy Center is restored as a national cultural landmark for all Americans to enjoy.”
During the litigation, the Justice Department also contended that the renaming of the building as the Trump-Kennedy Center was legal because it was merely an informal nickname, despite the fact that Trump’s name was added to the building’s marble facade last December….
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With about 2 1/2 years to go in office Trump’s brazenness has begun to hit brick walls in the courts and Congress….
image….New signage, The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts, is unveiled on the Kennedy Center, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Andrew Leyden
@PenguinSix
The shuttle buses at the Kennedy Center have changed their signage in the last few hours, removing Trump-Kennedy signs from the side of the vehicles.
Trump’s Name Being Removed from Kennedy Center
For those interested, there is a live feed of Donald Trump’s name coming off the Kennedy Center.
Appeals panel denies last-ditch effort to keep Trump’s name on Kennedy Center
A federal appeals court panel denied the Trump administration’s last-ditch effort to halt an end-of-day deadline to remove the president’s name from the exterior of the Kennedy Center.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s order allows the deadline to remain until the next stage of the appeal. The schedule indicates the next ruling won’t be until at least June 29.
The wall on the building NOW says…..
‘The Kennedy Center’…