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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

In the dead of night, behind a screen, the president’s name was purged from the facade of the Washington building

Donald Trump’s name has been removed from the facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, hours after a judge rejected an emergency appeal to block the removal of the president’s name.

Work began in the early hours of Saturday, shortly after the performing arts venue missed a federal judge’s two-week deadline to excise the words “The Donald J Trump and” from its exterior by Friday at 11.59pm local time.

The extra words were added last December after Trump’s handpicked board of trustees voted unanimously to rename the venue, which was designated as a living memorial to the 35th US president, John F Kennedy, by Congress in 1964 and opened in 1971.

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[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 days ago

12hr, just to setup scaffolding, to remove what was put up in a couple hours via cherrypicker...

[-] Eldritch@piefed.world 43 points 3 days ago

Thy that's the thing with all his damage. Repairing it will cost exponentially more than causing it.

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Physical, financial, economical, reputational....

It's going to be a long LONG time before America has any resemblance of recovery.

[-] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago

100% it was put up quickly in a cheery picker to get it done illegally before it could be stopped. Because getting it taken down via the legal system would take forever in comparison. That's not a coincidence.

[-] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 15 points 3 days ago

Now if only someone would remove Trump from existence.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

The extra words

Love the subtle jab, rather than saying “name”

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's going to be so funny when he puts it back again, but increasingly haphazardly and through shadier and shadier contractors.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

I hear his pool guy is once again available.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

When they then pay people to remove the replacement, is it the equivalent of the Keynesian idea of providing government work to pay a man to dig a hole then fill it up?

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

We're putting Americans back to work, one Kennedy Center sign change at a time

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2026
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