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Posted on 09/15/2026 10:35:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
Key Points
* A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the board of the Kennedy Center from inscribing the name of President Donald Trump on the performing arts center’s main building to honor him and from renaming the center’s campus after Trump.
* “Simply put, Defendants cannot install memorials for President Trump or anyone or anything else at the Kennedy Center without Congress’s blessing,” Judge Christopher Cooper wrote in his order in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
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A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from inscribing President Donald Trump’s name on the center’s main building to honor him for renovations and from naming its campus after Trump.
Judge Christopher Cooper’s order came after a renewed push by the Kennedy Center’s board — which the president chairs — to get Trump’s name on official markers at the center.
In May, Cooper had ordered that Trump’s name — which the board added to the center’s official name and facade in December — be removed because that action violated the law.
In his new order Tuesday, Cooper said he agreed that inscribing Trump’s name or renaming the grounds violated the terms of the permanent injunction he issued in May directing the president’s name be removed from the center’s official name.
“Simply put, Defendants cannot install memorials for President Trump or anyone or anything else at the Kennedy Center without Congress’s blessing,” Cooper wrote in his order in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
“The board resolution bucks a federal court order and a statute Congress enacted,” Cooper wrote.
Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, an ex officio member of the center’s board who sought the order, said in a statement, “President Trump is holding the Kennedy Center hostage unless he can put his name on this sacred memorial.”
“The Court just rejected this proposal for the second time,” Beatty said. “This unlawfulness is as breathtaking as it is wrong, and it needs to stop.”
The Department of Justice, which defended the board’s actions, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Cooper’s ruling, and if it would appeal the decision.
The center’s board, in an Aug. 13 resolution, said it intended “to recognize and honor President Trump’s future existential and unprecedented contributions to the survival of the Center.”
The board said it would inscribe Trump’s name on the center’s building so that it would read, “The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts,” with the words “renovated and restored by President Donald J. Trump” underneath.
The board also said it would name the center’s physical grounds “The President Donald J. Trump Plaza.”
Both actions were originally planned to be completed by Sept. 8, but the board later extended the deadline to Oct. 8.
The Department of Justice, in defending the board’s actions, argued to Cooper that if he blocked the moves, donors would stop contributing to the center, leaving the facility short of funds while it badly needed renovation.
Cooper, in his order Tuesday, said the DOJ offered “no proof that current or future donations hinge on President Trump’s being on the building” and “no competent proof that removing the Trump name would prevent the Center from fulfilling its artistic mission.
“Four months ago, this Court declared that Congress named the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for President John F. Kennedy alone,” Cooper said.
“It came to this conclusion for a simple reason: The federal law that created the Kennedy Center permitted no other result,” Cooper wrote. “In 1983, Congress amended that law to guarantee ‘no additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.’ ”
“Yet the drama at the Kennedy Center continues,” the judge added, referring to the board’s resolutions.
Beatty’s lawyers, Norm Eisen and Nathaniel Zelinsky, in a joint statement said, “Two times the court has told President Trump the same thing: You are not above the law. Legal sanity has once again prevailed over Trump’s vanity.”
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There’s more to the Kennedy center problems than this judge not allowing Trump‘s name to be put on the building.
The Kennedy Center is going bankrupt and is falling apart and is closing down anyway.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4395611/posts
Yep, his ‘ruling’ is moot............
Build a new, bigger and better one.
-PJ
Let them have Cindy Sue And Her Magical Spoons perform at the Kennedy Center.
Another Fake judge but a Real Idiot
Don’t these radical judges have better things to do ?
Could we just get through ONE DAY without reading “A federal judge today blocked XYZ”?
>>Don’t these radical judges have better things to do ?
Doesn’t Trump have anything better to do than try and get his name on everything?
I’d love to see the next President just ignore these fools. Whether Republican or Democrat. I want the Precedent set in case another good President comes around (which in and of itself is unlikely).
The Kennedy Center is falling apart anyway, so in a way its a perfect representation of the Kennedy family, let them have the name
I know I’m not the only one e that’s sick of this crap! Especially when we are in the minority and don’t ever turn the tables on the other side.
Obama appointment
In 1983, Congress amended that law to guarantee ‘no additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.’ -—
Oh,easy peasy. Just ask Congress to amend the law again. I’m sure they’ll be only too happy to go along with President Trump! 🙄
Was it a federal ‘judge”, a “judgette’ or a “here come da judge”?
He’s an Obamaroid................
Makes no difference now, the place is falling apart............
How come we haven’t heard anything on Lake America yet?
Yep. Given the condition it’s been allowed to deteriorate to, I wouldn’t want my name on it in the first place.
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