Pro-Trump board at Kennedy Center makes moves to return the president’s name to the facade
Rep. Joyce Beatty made an emergency request on Thursday that a federal court block the Kennedy Center from returning President Donald Trump’s name to the building. The Trump-aligned board at the Kennedy Center voted earlier this month to inscribe the president’s name on the venue’s facade so it would read “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated By President…
U.S. Representative Joyce Beatty, a Democrat from Ohio and ex officio member of the Kennedy Center, has been leading an effort to prevent President Donald Trump from memorializing himself at the Kennedy Center. On Thursday, Beatty made an emergency request to a federal court to block the Kennedy Center from adding Trump's name to the building's facade.
The Trump-aligned board at the Kennedy Center had previously voted to inscribe Trump's name on the venue's exterior, with an additional inscription planned for the plaza in front of the center, should the Trump Kennedy Center Fund reach $100 million. The institution has previously complied with a court order to remove Trump's name, but left scaffolding in place.
The Kennedy Center explicitly prohibits the board of trustees from making the center into a memorial to anyone other than John F. Kennedy, and from adding another person's name to the building's exterior. A U.S. District Court Judge ruled in May that the Kennedy Center illegally added Trump's name to the building and ordered it removed.
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