Workers began tearing President Donald Trump's name off the Kennedy Center facade Friday after an appeals court denied a request from the Kennedy Center's board to block a judge's ruling that Trump's name be removed.Workers erected scaffolding around the Washington, D.C., landmark Friday and began removing the Trump name from the signage that had previously read "The Donald J.Trump and John F.
Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts."The Kennedy Center board had approved the addition of Trump's name in December, claiming that the move was in recognition of Trump's accomplishments in saving "the institution from financial ruin and physical destruction."Workers affixed Trump's name to the facade the next day.TRUMP'S NAME ADDED TO KENNEDY CENTER FOLLOWING UNANIMOUS BOARD VOTE TO RENAME HISTORIC BUILDINGConstruction workers build scaffolding near the Donald J.Trump and John F.
Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts sign in Washington, D.C., on June 12, 2026.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Now, however, the Trump name is coming down, despite numerous attempts at stays from the Kennedy Center board.The board filed both a stay pending appeal and an immediate administrative stay, arguing the name should not be removed before the matter gets an appellate review.But an appeals court denied the request for an immediate administrative stay.OBAMA-APPOINTED JUDGE WITH TIES TO ANTI-TRUMP CONSPIRACY THEORY HIT WITH MISCONDUCT COMPLAINTPeople watch construction workers build scaffolding near the Donald J.
Trump and John F.Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts sign in Washington, D.C., on June 12, 2026.
The Kennedy Center board sought an emergency appeal to block a court order requiring the removal of President Trump's name, but a judge denied the request.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)The board then filed an emergency motion with the U.S.
Court of Appeals, but a three-judge panel of the D.C.Circuit denied it.The board had requested a pause in the enforc...