Updated 15 Aug, 2026 07:47
Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Performative Arts Center in Washington, D.C., June 5, 2026 – a week before Trump's name was removed. © Getty Images / Kevin Carter
According to many media reports, the Kennedy Center board voted to reconstruct Donald Trump's name to the name of this Washington cultural facility – only 2 months after it was removed by a national judge's decision.
Trump-friendly board decided to give the institution a name commemorating both Trump and John F. Kennedy last December, and Trump's name was then placed on the facade of the building.
However, in May, national justice Christopher Cooper ruled that the board had no authority to change the name established by Congress, and ordered the removal of markings with Trump's name.
The employees followed this order in June.
This time, the board does not officially change the name Kennedy Center to commemorate Trump.
According to Axios, the Kennedy Center sign will read:
"Renewed and upgraded by president Donald J. Trump", However, the area around the facility itself will receive the name "President Donald J. Trump's payment" (President Donald J. Trump Plaza).
The fresh solution allows you to put Trump's name on the building without formally announcing that the Kennedy Center bears his name;
This is most likely to circumvent the rules that only legislature can change the name of this institution.
On Thursday, the board besides voted to close the main part of the facility for 2 years in order to carry out the renovation.
The planned modernization includes the renovation of outdated infrastructure, the renovation of the marble facade of the building and the renovation of halls and theatres.
"Thanks to president Trump Kennedy Center's bold leadership, he aims to become the best cultural institution in the world" “Axios, the White home spokesperson, Liz Huston, told the service.
The dispute over the name has already become an impulse for legislative work in Congress.
In January, Senator Bernie Sanders and a group of democratic colleagues presented the draft service Act (Stop Executive Renaming for Vanity and Ego – “Stop naming national buildings out of vanity and for your own ego”)which would prohibit the granting of names from the President-in-Office.
The bill is presently at the committee's work stage.
Huston argued at the time that specified naming initiatives reflect policy achievements alternatively than image activities;
She besides noted that both Washington (US capital) and Tam Hoover received their names in honor of the presidents holding the office at the time.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/644270-trump-name-kennedy-center-controversy/
