{"id":2567,"date":"2026-05-29T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/29\/trump-must-remove-name-from-kennedy-center-judge-orders\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:57:00","slug":"trump-must-remove-name-from-kennedy-center-judge-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/29\/trump-must-remove-name-from-kennedy-center-judge-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Must Remove Name From Kennedy Center, Judge Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tThe\u00a0 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts must remove Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s name from the building.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tA ruling Friday from U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ends the \u201cunlawful effort\u201d to rename the institution the Trump Kennedy Center. Per the order, all signage with the \u201cTrump Kennedy Center\u201d name must be removed within 14 days.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\t\u201cCongress named the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, for President John F. Kennedy by federal statute, and the Center may not be officially named for anyone else except by an Act of Congress,\u201d the ruling states. \t<\/p>\n

\tThe ruling also temporarily stops the planned closure of the center on July 5 for two years of renovations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tThis comes after a lawsuit filed by Congresswoman Joyce Beatty<\/a>, who is an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center\u2019s Board of Trustees. She initially filed suit after the board, which was handpicked by Trump, voted to rename the center in December 2025 and amended her lawsuit to include the closure, which was announced in February 2025.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cToday\u2019s ruling rightly affirms that this administration\u2019s efforts to rename and close the Center have no basis in law,\u201d said Congresswoman Beatty. <\/strong>\u201cThe Kennedy Center is an institution that belongs to the American people, not to Donald Trump. He has desecrated this sacred memorial for his own vanity. I am proud to have fought for the rule of law and to protect this sacred institution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tBeatty\u2019s suit came after she was blocked from attending board meetings and voting, namely when board members voted to rename the center the Trump-Kennedy Center in December. She was able to attend the center\u2019s March 16 meeting, but was not able to vote.\u00a0 \t<\/p>\n

\tAt that meeting, the board moved to vote for the two-year\u00a0closure of the center starting July 7<\/a>, due to what Trump has described as necessary renovations.\u00a0However, the planned closure also comes after a number of artists pulled their concerts and programming from the center, in protest of Trump naming himself chair and appointing new board members. That made the upcoming schedule of programming unclear. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Logo text The\u00a0 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts must remove Donald Trump\u2019s name from the building.\u00a0 A ruling Friday from U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ends the \u201cunlawful effort\u201d to rename the institution the Trump Kennedy Center. Per the order, all signage with the \u201cTrump Kennedy Center\u201d name must be removed within 14 days.\u00a0 \u201cCongress named the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, for President John F. Kennedy by federal statute, and the Center may not be officially named for anyone else except by an Act of Congress,\u201d the ruling states. The ruling also temporarily stops the planned closure of the center on July 5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[173,2,28,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-hollywood","category-news","category-politics-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}