A federal appeals court in Washington denies an emergency request to keep Donald Trump’s name on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and workers remove the letters from the marble facade.The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit finds no specific evidence that removing Donald Trump’s name will inflict irreparable harm on fundraising and unanimously rejects the board’s stay request.Representative Joyce Beatty sued after the Kennedy Center board added Donald Trump’s name following a December reshuffle in which Donald Trump replaced trustees and named himself chair, and a lower court ruled the board lacked Congressional authority to rename the institution.The
Department of Justice warns that removing the name could jeopardize donations tied to the Trump
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, but the appeals judges call those claims speculative and the broader appeal of the order remains pending.