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Why Is the Kennedy Center Board Trying To Add Trump's Name to the Building—Again?

Must they keep chipping away at their dignity?

Reason

Trump's Name Returns to Kennedy Center as Board Greenlights 2-Year Renovation Shutdown

The Kennedy Center’s board voted Thursday to put President Donald Trump’s name back on the building and close the performing arts complex for two years, renewing two moves a federal judge previously blocked and setting up another legal confrontation.

Benzinga

Kennedy Center Board Risks Court Contempt After Voting To Add Trump Name To Building Despite Ruling

The Kennedy Center board's decision to add a Trump inscription has sparked legal controversy, challenging a court ruling that only Congress can rename the federally established memorial to John F. Kennedy.

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Kennedy Center board votes again to renovate building and inscribe Trump’s name on it – report

The center has until next week to present plan to judge who had blocked earlier rehab and name change

The Guardian - US

The Latest: Kennedy Center board approves 2-year closure for renovations, AP sources say

The Kennedy Center will move forward with a two-year closure of the performing arts venue to allow for substantial renovations

The Independent UK

As Roy Cooper leads in polls, Democrats aren’t measuring the drapes yet

North Carolina Democrat Roy Cooper has broad name recognition as a former governor. His Senate campaign is flush with cash. And he enjoys a robust lead over Republican rival Michael Whatley in almost every public poll. “This is the first time [Democrats] have had the wind at their backs in…

Roll Call

Kennedy Center filled with shoddy work as officials rushed to renovate venue in Trump aesthetic, whistleblowers claim

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse expands investigation into Trump-directed ‘waste’ at the performing arts venue

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US court says Trump name must stay off Kennedy Center during appeal

Trump administration requested pause on lower court’s ruling after Trump’s name was removed from facade in June

The Guardian - US

Trump’s DOJ claims Kennedy Center will fall into ‘financial ruin’ without his name on the building

DOJ heaps praise on the president’s ‘unparalleled Construction talents’ in latest bid to keep his name on the building

The Independent UK

'Caught in Sex Traffic': Trump Humiliated by Savage Epstein Joke at Kennedy Center After Name Is Forcefully Removed

Comedian Whitney Cummings roasted Donald Trump with a Jeffrey Epstein 'sex traffic' joke at the Kennedy Center, as Bill Maher collected the Mark Twain Prize and Trump's failed bid to rename the venue still hung over the night.

International Business Times UK

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

Punchlines on president’s thwarted bid to have building named after him come thick and fast at Washington DC gala

The Guardian - UK

Trump steals the spotlight at Bill Maher’s Mark Twain Prize ceremony

Politically Incorrect host may have received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the tarp-covered Kennedy Center but Donald Trump was the main topic of conversation — and the butt of jokes

The Independent UK

Trump news at a glance: US president holds a rare bipartisan bill hostage

Trump says he’ll sign housing bill aimed at lowering costs only after Senate passes restrictive voting measure – key US politics stories from Wednesday 24 June at a glance

The Guardian - US

Judge orders Trump administration to explain tarp obscuring Kennedy Center

White House must report by 31 July on purpose of tarp installed while Trump’s name was stripped from building

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The Independent UK

A judge demanded Trump’s name come down from the Kennedy Center. Now, he wants to know why tarps block the view

Lawyers fighting to keep the president’s name off the building say the venue is waging ‘a petty act of defiance’ that is ‘willfully sabotaging’ the facade to appeal to Trump’s ego

The Independent UK

Guerrilla artists declare war on Trump with crocodile Hegseth, vampire Miller and ‘86 47’ projected on DC landmarks

The prank appears to be the work of anti-Trump street artists who posted an online montage of projections on landmarks across the nation’s capital

The Independent UK

Kennedy Center says it isn't required to reschedule shows after judge blocks 2-year closure

The Kennedy Center's management isn't committing to new shows or staff expansion, even as it considers options short of a full two-year closure that a federal judge blocked last month

The Mary Sue

A Federal Judge Just Dismantled Trump’s Desperate Eleventh-Hour Bid to Keep His Name on the Kennedy Center

The Trump administration said the "millions" raised through the center would have to be returned if the name changed.

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The Independent UK

Fresh off stripping Trump from its building, Kennedy Center creates new endowment bearing the president’s name

Rep. Joyce Beatty accused the center’s Trump-appointed trustees of being ‘more focused on elevating the President than advancing the arts’

International Business Times UK

Trump's Board Voted Him a New Kennedy Centre Fund Hours After a Judge Tore His Name Off the Building

The Kennedy Centre board voted to establish a Trump endowment while a court ordered his name removed from the building, sparking legal battles over naming rights and funding obligations.

Euronews

‘Snowflake’: Donald Trump's Kennedy Center tarp cover-up sparks criticism

Donald Trump’s name has been removed from the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. But striped tarps still cover the cultural center, leading to frustration and several accusing Trump of having a “fragile ego”.

Bangkok Post

Trump's name removed from Kennedy Center arts venue

WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - Workers removed President Donald Trump's name from the facade of the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington on Saturday -- a stinging defeat for the US leader who has eschewed political tradition to affix his name and likeness across public spaces.

The Economic Times

Removal of Donald Trump's name from Kennedy Center begins after court ruling

Workers began removing President Donald Trump's name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts facade. A federal judge ruled the renaming unlawful. The effort followed a rejection of a last-minute bid to halt the removal. This marks a setback for the president's push to place his name…

The Guardian - US

Workers remove Trump’s name from Kennedy Center after court rulings

In the dead of night, behind a screen, the president’s name was purged from the facade of the Washington building

The Times of India

Donald Trump's name to come off Kennedy Center after court battle

Workers began removing US President Donald Trump's name from the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts early Saturday, narrowly missing a court-ordered Friday deadline after thunderstorms delayed the work.

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