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Workers begin to remove Trump’s name from Kennedy Center after court rulings
In the dead of night, behind a screen, the president’s name started to be purged from the facade of the Washington building
A crew of workers spent the night removing Donald Trump’s name from the facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, hours after a judge rejected an emergency appeal to block the removal of the former president’s name.
Work began in the early hours of Saturday, shortly after the performing arts venue missed a federal judge’s two-week deadline to excise the words ‘The Donald J Trump and’ from its exterior by Friday at 11.59pm.
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Donna Ferguson · Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 4:30 AM
US news | The Guardian
In the dead of night, behind a screen, the president’s name started to be purged from the facade of the Washington building
A crew of workers spent the night removing Donald Trump’s name from the facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, hours after a judge rejected an emergency appeal to block the removal of the former president’s name.
Work began in the early hours of Saturday, shortly after the performing arts venue missed a federal judge’s two-week deadline to excise the words ‘The Donald J Trump and’ from its exterior by Friday at 11.59pm.
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