Workers remove Trumpâs name from Kennedy Center after court rulings
In the dead of night, behind a screen, the presidentâs name was purged from the facade of the Washington building Donald Trumpâs name has been removed from the facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, hours after a judge rejected an emergency appeal to block the removal. Work began in the early hours of Saturday, shortly after the performing arts venue missed a federal judgeâs two-week deadline to excise the words âThe Donald J Trump andâ from its exterior by Friday at 11.59pm local time. The extra words were added last December after Trumpâs handpicked board of trustees voted unanimously to rename the venue, which was designated as a living memorial to the 35th US president, John F Kennedy, by Congress in 1964 and opened in 1971. After erecting scaffolding on Friday evening, workers in hard hats and hi-vis vests draped tarpaulin over the temporary structure at 2am to block public views of their progress but were seen, through a small opening in the scaffolding covering, to be removing the letters at about 3am. The tarpaulin remained in place on Saturday, but in a legal filing the executive director of the Kennedy Center confirmed the lettering had been removed. M
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