In the wee hours of Saturday, June 13, following an extension of the midnight deadline due to thunderstorms, workers removed what many consider the most objectionable plastering of the current […]
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We know the Kennedy Center Board filed that Donald Trump's name had been removed. But are we the only ones who want to see it for ourselves?
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The long fight about the President’s name being added to the Center ended in the wee hours of the morning
Respinta la richiesta di sospensione dell'istituzione, bocciato anche l'appello: i ponteggi sono già stati montati per togliere le lettere dalla facciata del teatro di Washington
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The “Trump-Kennedy Center” appears to be no more.
Scaffolding has gone up around the storied performance venue to remove the “Trump-Kennedy Center” name, which President Trump changed without congressional approval late last year. A judge ruled the decision illegal last month, with and rejected the administration’s bid to reverse the division on Friday.
“The Kennedy Center’s organic statute…
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When President Trump took over the Kennedy Center, his people allegedly ignored a long-term agreement and seized millions of dollars from the Washington National Opera.
That’s what the WNO alleges in a lawsuit against the center, filed Thursday in federal court. According to court documents, the WNO and the Kennedy Center had a contractual relationship for nearly 15 years, in which operas were…
Meanwhile, an Israeli-controlled museum in Jerusalem is poised to name itself after Trump.
Federal workers who must guard what they think and say will be less open, strategic, and willing to take the initiative.
For all the stigma and turmoil that President Trump has brought onto the Kennedy Center, the people who are most harmed are the people who work there — including the National Symphony Orchestra, the very existence of which is imperiled by the callousness and confusion surrounding the president’s attempted takeover of the organization (which, of […]
“Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.”
The argument that you can do good from the inside of an institution ravaged by the Trump administration no longer washes
A court ruled on Friday ruled that the Kennedy Center must take down President Donald Trump’s name from the building, as well as all branding, however, it may not happen […]
After a number of artists withdrew from Donald Trump's Freedom 250 concert, the President has proposed a new headliner - himself.
On Truth Social, the President said he understood artists were getting the "yips" about performing at the event.
He said he is now considering headlining the event, describing himself as "the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, "the man who get…
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Artists are pulling out of performances to protest Trump renaming the Center after himself.
Marking the late president’s 109th birthday, John F. Kennedy’s family is celebrating a judge’s recent decision to preserve his namesake memorial performing arts building. Following a federal judge’s order on Friday to remove Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center and block a two-year renovation, JFK’s niece Maria Shriver praised the “great birthday gift” for […]
A federal judge issued a ruling blocking the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts from closing for repairs, and also ordered Trump's name removed from the institution.
The post Judge Blocks Kennedy Center from Closing for Repairs, Orders Trump Name Removed From Venue appeared first on Breitbart.
Donald Trump said that his administration will be working with Congress to transfer the Kennedy Center “back to them” in light of a federal judge’s ruling that the president’s name must be taken off the performing arts institution and blocking plans to close it for two years for renovations. In a Truth Social Post, Trump […]
President Donald Trump took aim at the judge who halted his plans to renovate the Kennedy Center — and ordered Trump’s name taken off the building — saying the judge should “be ashamed of himself,” because the center is “structurally dangerous” and a threat to public safety. In the wake of the judge’s ruling, Trump […]
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A federal judge has ordered that President Trump’s name be removed from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts—and that the president reopen the prestigious theater.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled Friday that the name of the performing arts center can’t be changed without an act of Congress, and ordered the Trump administration to take down every sign with Trump’s name and get…
The move by the board of trustees the Kennedy Center to add President Donald Trump’s name to the D.C. cultural institution was illegal, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ordered Kennedy Center officials to remove Trump’s name from the building within two weeks. In a related ruling, Cooper granted a request […]
A federal judge ruled on Friday that the board of the Kennedy Center cannot rename the arts center for Donald Trump, while he blocked plans to close the complex for two years for renovations. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper wrote on Friday that only Congress could change the name of the center. “Congress gave the […]
National Scrollathon, an exhibition by Steven and William Ladd at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, represents 10,000 Americans of “every age, background, political affiliation, orientation, race”
Visitors in Washington, D.C., these days might think they're visiting Washington "as brought to you by President Donald Trump." From his name on the Kennedy Center to his visage on federal buildings and construction sites, Trump branding is inescapable.
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The Washington National Opera has found new life since it steered away from Donald Trump’s control.
The 70-year-old opera company departed its longtime home at the John F. Kennedy Center when the president and his allies assumed control of the historic cultural institution last year. Yet the difficult exit has apparently not hurt the company—instead, it is well on its way to a full reinvention,…
WASHINGTON — Get off the train at Union Station, walk outside and gasp at that iconic view of the Capitol dome in front of you. Cross the street and the first thing you run into is a construction site surrounding walled-off Columbus Circle. On the wall is a huge poster of President Donald Trump wearing a […]
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees said that it has filed unfair labor practice charges against the Kennedy Center over the layoffs of workers in advance of the arts institution’s planned closure in July. The charges, filed with the National Labor Relations Board, stem from the layoff or termination of all workers in the […]
The editor of the Kennedy Center’s bimonthly magazine couldn’t be bothered to edit the May/June 2026 edition to account for the fact that there is no actual dance programming on the main stages between now and the center’s planned two-year closure for renovations on July 4. In the issue mailed out last week, the table […]
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Donald Trump’s picture could soon be on every new U.S. passport.
The State Department is finalizing a plan to put the president’s face in the travel document, The Bulwark reports, citing two sources with knowledge of the passport redesign, one of whom provided pictures. The new passports will include Trump’s second inaugural portrait superimposed over the Declaration of Independence, along with…
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Josef Palermo provided his insider knowledge to a Senate investigation, alleging Ric Grenell's self-dealing, cronyism, and incompetence.
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