The Kennedy Center had until June 12 at midnight to strip the president’s name from the building, but construction crews in hard hats and neon green high-vis vests only started to assemble scaffolding to reach the letters that afternoon.
That midnight deadline came and went without any letters removed from the building.
Cooper and a panel of appeals court judges denied the administration’s 11th-hour attempts to keep Trump’s name on the facade, and workers began adding a tarp to the towering scaffolding shortly after 1 a.m..
Workers eventually began removing letters at 3 a.m. June 13.
On Wednesday, the federal judge overseeing a lawsuit against the president’s attempts to rename the iconic performing arts venue after himself ordered the Kennedy Center to “indicate the purpose for and status of the tarp and scaffolding” by July 31.
Seriously? Why give them over a month to answer such a simple question?
I think his staffers never told him about the court ruling, and instead they've told him they are replacing all the dull lettering with 'classy' gold lettering. And now they don't know how to tell him the truth. So they are stalling by leaving the tarps up there.
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