{"id":1464,"date":"2026-08-14T15:07:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:07:30","slug":"trumps-handpicked-kennedy-center-board-tries-to-put-his-name-back-on-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1464","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Handpicked Kennedy Center Board Tries to Put His Name Back on Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- begin partial\/series-card --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span>Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with <\/span><\/i><i><span>a donation<\/span><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1462\">Alito\u2019s Assets in Fossil Fuels Have Grown by Up to $2.9 Million, Analysis Finds<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The board of trustees for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., voted on Thursday to place President Donald Trump\u2019s name on the outside of the building, testing a previous court order that blocked the renaming of the institution after the president.<\/p>\n<p>The change is a loophole of sorts. While the vote doesn\u2019t attempt to rename the building after Trump, it does place a new inscription on the building in an attempt to honor him.<\/p>\n<p>During the first month of his return to office, Trump fired all of the board of trustees and replaced them with his own handpicked loyalists. The board eventually voted to rename the center by placing his name ahead of Kennedy\u2019s, and for a time, the building was known as \u201cThe Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But a federal judge ruled earlier this year that the move violated congressional dictates requiring that the center be named after former President John F. Kennedy and no one else. <\/p>\n<p>By law, Congress had made \u201ccrystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board\u2019s unilateral say-so,\u201d U.S. District Judge Casey Cooper determined. <\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s name was eventually removed from the center\u2019s exterior. But on August 13, the board voted to continue renovations of the building and to place a new inscription on its exterior that reads \u201cRestored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The board also voted to rename the center\u2019s grounds to the \u201cPresident Donald J. Trump Plaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1460\">Scott Jennings Regularly Misleads. He Could Become Trump\u2019s Next Press Secretary.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cooper had stipulated in his ruling that the renaming of the building and other planned renovations had to be put on hold so the board could consider how the changes would affect the Kennedy Center\u2019s performance schedule and its congressionally mandated programming. The board determined in its vote this week that renovations could move forward while a smaller stage remained open to performances, hoping to navigate around Cooper\u2019s stipulations. <\/p>\n<p>The board must submit its changes for approval to the federal court by August 18.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, <em>CNN\u2019s<\/em> Kaitlan Collins noted that Trump\u2019s obsession with remaking national fixtures in his image wasn\u2019t limited to the Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president\u2019s focus has not just been on the Kennedy Center in terms of his broader push to remake Washington. It\u2019s also his penchant for branding everything in his name,\u201d Collins opined. \u201cThat includes the gold coins, the Trump passports, the National Park passes, the Palm Beach airport \u2014 I\u2019m not done \u2014 the banner at the Justice Department, the new class of battleships. There are many things, not just in Washington, but all across the nation now bearing the Trump name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Trump\u2019s name was removed from the building earlier this summer, some artists celebrated the restoration of the venue\u2019s intended name to honor Kennedy, not the current president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s name being removed from the building in June \u201creally does mean something,\u201d said Mallory Miller, former assistant manager of dance at the center, who was fired last August. \u201cThis is just the first step in rebuilding the trust that has been lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1458\">Fountains, Ballroom, and a Helipad: Trump\u2019s White House Projects Cost Nearly $1B<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The board is attempting to find a loophole to put Trump\u2019s name on the venue without technically renaming the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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