Kennedy Center board to fight order to remove Trump's name as deadline looms

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

June 11, 2026 at 6:58 p.m. EDT


The Kennedy Center's board plans to fight a federal judge's order to remove President Donald Trump's name from the performing arts center.

The center's trustees on Thursday voted to seek a last-minute stay of U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper's directive to take Trump's name off the center's exterior by Friday as they appeal his ruling that renaming the center was illegal, according to a meeting attendee and someone briefed by a meeting attendee, who both spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
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The board's decision came a day before Cooper's deadline for the center to remove Trump's name from its building and branding, part of a ruling in which the judge also granted a request from Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) to temporarily block steps toward a planned two-year shutdown.

Cooper's order, the most significant legal blow yet to Trump's effort to remake the Kennedy Center, found that the board exceeded its authority in December when it voted to rename the venue "The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts." Congress gave the center its name, Cooper wrote, and only Congress can change it.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/06/11/kennedy-center-board-fight-order-remove-trumps-name-deadline-looms/

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[Lovie777]

1. I'm getting sick and tired of these assholes..............

the country belongs to her people not these fuck ups.

[Cha]

2. Good Luck getting that Grotesque

PEDO name off the Kennedy Center! ☮️💙🌈🌊🍀

[dave99]

3. Every person on that "board" is part of the 'if its older than 12 don't bother' squad of shitstain's

[NJCher]

4. I saw a video

Where they'd taken it down already. ??

[onenote]

6. That was an AI fake.

[miyazaki]

5. They'd sell their own children for a buck.

Tells me they're all somehow divvying up much of the quarter billion renovation.

[Mz Pip]

7. Oh, FFS

Just let it go already

[ChicagoTeamster]

8. But of course, they're his people. He's telling them to fight it and they're following his orders.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. "for fear of retribution" .... and WHOSE fault is that ? Hmmmmmm ?

Only a maladministration run by thugs feels a need to keep its people in constant fear.

[Shipwack]

10. So... do they take turns...

…. From being up Trump’s ass, or is it large enough to accommodate everyone at the same time?

🤔

[bmichaelh]

11. From the Trump playbook

From the Trump playbook.

They do not object right away or the next day but at the last minute to extend the clock.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. The trump DOJ is using the illegal renaming of the Dept. of Defense to justify renaming Kennedy Center

Hegseth's still renaming of the Department of Defense to the Department of War is being used to justify the renaming of the Kennedy Center. This is such a weak legal argument that it made me smile

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

13. All the digital resources associated with with the Center (website, yoitube, etc)

had already wiped his name. The main "visible" thing left to change is the name on the building façade.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. This is such a weak legal argument that it made me laugh

The name changes are being made because the trump DOJ know that they are not going to win this argument

[BumRushDaShow]

15. It's for

vainglorious purposes.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. trump cannot admit that he lost and is going to have a fit when his name is taken off the Kennedy center

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Apparently the latest request was just denied

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143678044