President Donald Trump’s name was removed from the iconic John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on June 13 after efforts to halt the name reversal failed.
A large white tarp covered sections of the building in Washington on Saturday morning after crews worked overnight to remove the letters from the venue’s exterior.
On May 29, a District Judge Christopher R. Cooper ordered Trump’s name to be removed and blocked the venue’s planned closure, which would have started after July 4 and allowed it to undergo renovation for two years.
“The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so,” Cooper said….