{"id":23727,"date":"2026-06-06T04:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kennedy-center-begins-process-of-removing-trump-references\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T04:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:22:07","slug":"kennedy-center-begins-process-of-removing-trump-references","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kennedy-center-begins-process-of-removing-trump-references\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Center begins process of removing Trump references"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<p>                                <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1780608903000\" data-recent-thresholdinhours=\"1\">                    <template data-date-tpl>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<\/template>                    <span data-date><\/span>                <\/bsp-timestamp>            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                    <bsp-page-actions>                            <\/bsp-page-actions>                                                            <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; The Kennedy Center is beginning the process of removing references to President <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span>  a week after a federal judge ruled that his name had been <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-kennedy-center-performing-arts-board-rename-ffb6829221bddc012c24ce696ebf0633\">illegally added<\/a><\/span>  to the performing arts center.<\/p>\n<p>Roma Daravi, the Kennedy Center&rsquo;s vice president of public relations, said in a statement to The Associated Press that &ldquo;we are complying with the court&rsquo;s order while evaluating all legal options to preserve this revitalization and recognize President Trump&rsquo;s leadership.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In a Thursday memo to staff from the Kennedy Center&rsquo;s Office of General Counsel, the institution&rsquo;s lawyers said email signatures, letterhead and other documents must reflect the name as &ldquo;The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts&rdquo; or &ldquo;Kennedy Center.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The changes, the memo said, must be completed by June 12. <\/p>\n<p>In a May 29 <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972\/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972.50.0_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision<\/a><\/span>U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper also blocked the administration from closing the cultural and arts venue for major renovations that had been planned to start in July.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the ruling, Trump said he was backing away from the revamp and making arrangements to relinquish control to Congress of what, until the Republican president&rsquo;s second term, had been known as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, Trump on social media branded Cooper as &ldquo;an anti Trump Hater&rdquo; and predicted that the performing arts center that he wanted <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-kennedy-center-afd7c714c53d8942a4b76b2684a20755\">to shutter for a two-year overhaul<\/a><\/span>  will &ldquo;soon be closed, probably never to open again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Clearly angered by his latest legal setback, he said it was &ldquo;impossible for me to be treated fairly,&rdquo; tying Cooper&rsquo;s ruling to earlier losses, including the Supreme Court&rsquo;s rejection in February of his <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supreme-court-tariffs-trump-0485fcda30a7310501123e4931dba3f9\">sweeping tariffs<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The removal marked a setback in the president&rsquo;s second-term plans to remake many of Washington&rsquo;s landmarks &mdash; and add new ones.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, his administration said renovations had been completed on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, painting the bottom what Trump has called &ldquo;American flag blue.&rdquo; The <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-white-house-ballroom-57512e0d91432f75529946fddfbfe2c5\">White House East Wing was demolished<\/a><\/span>  to build a large ballroom, and Trump <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-arch-review-commission-cc2ac43358b652005a108bbd9786c01c\">plans to build an arch<\/a><\/span>  between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. <\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press writer Hillel Italie in New York contributed to this report. Kinnard reported from Columbia, S.C.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-kennedy-center-b27248c91b59594da972b95191c4035f\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; The Kennedy Center is beginning the process of removing references to President Donald Trump a week after a federal judge ruled that his name had been illegally added to the performing arts center. Roma Daravi, the Kennedy Center&rsquo;s vice president of public relations, said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}