Workers have stripped US President Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center, less than six months after it went up, complying with a judge's ruling the performing arts landmark cannot be renamed without an act of Congress.
The work began around 3.20pm AEST on Saturday, hours after the Department of Justice said the government would miss the court-ordered deadline on Friday to take Trump's name off the Washington venue, created a half-century ago to honour an assassinated president.
The centre's board, which Trump chairs, voted in December to rename it The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. Workers began affixing his name to the building the next day.
