Well, it didn’t happen until the middle of the night, but Donald Trump’s name has finally been removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
It turns out all that scaffolding we saw erected on Friday afternoon was to help raise a tarp so the public couldn’t see the ACTUAL removal of letters from the building. Because someone is such a snowflake…
The actual removal of the 18 letters “The Donald J. Trump and” occurred about 3 a.m. Saturday morning.
The 55-year-old memorial’s exterior once again reads “The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts,” after Trump’s name had been on the facade for 176 days.
A federal judge declined to pause the order to remove Trump’s name writing that “Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.”
The 10 hours of erecting scaffolding wasn’t to strip the letters (something that 30 minutes in a boom lift could accomplish), it was to conceal the view with a curtain because Trump couldn’t handle the optics of the letters of his name being plucked off the building. https://t.co/rhHISB3MVm
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) June 13, 2026
FOOTAGE OF THE LETTERS BEING REMOVED
The irony of the Trump administration claiming to be the most transparent in history is never lost on me. Kennedy Center Workers used a tarp so cameras couldn’t see the removal.
It’s like playing hide-and-seek with a toddler: if they can’t… pic.twitter.com/G7bAezrOcD
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) June 13, 2026
It’s like poetic justice how there’s a double rainbow outside the John Kennedy Center as Trump’s name is being removed. pic.twitter.com/z8FRb1Gitg
— ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ (@LePapillonBlu2) June 13, 2026
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