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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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David Smith in Washington

Trump renaming fiasco fuels jokes as Maher takes Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain prize

Bill Maher.
The ceremony highlighted Maher’s role as an ‘equal opportunity offender’ of the left and right. Photograph: Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock

Outside the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a giant tarpaulin remained in place to conceal Donald Trump’s humiliation.

Guests entering the national arts complex on Sunday night could not see the section of its marble facade where Trump’s name was recently erased to comply with a court order.

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