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The Kennedy Center must remove President Donald Trump\u2019s name from the building after the board, made up of members handpicked by the president, unanimously approved the change last year, a judge ruled on Friday. <\/p>\n

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In a pair of rulings ahead of the weekend, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper granted a request to temporarily pause plans to close the performing arts center amid major renovations and ordered Kennedy Center officials to remove Trump\u2019s name within the next two weeks. The judge ruled the name change violated federal law that says the center must be named to honor \u201cPresident Kennedy and President Kennedy alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Kennedy Center\u2019s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the board\u2019s unilateral say-so,\u201d the decision states.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department has previously argued that adding Trump\u2019s name to the center was legal because it is only an informal nickname \u2014 but that argument has been blurred after officials had the president\u2019s name added to the building\u2019s facade late last year. In his ruling on Friday, Cooper said the administration\u2019s \u201cconvenient reframing is too cute by half \u2014 and belied by the record.\u201d <\/p>\n

Cooper cited comments from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt last year in which she said the board formally \u201cvoted\u201d to \u201crename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe joint name has since been featured on the Center\u2019s official website, email communications, letterhead, and logo,\u201d Cooper wrote. \u201cThe Center even filed a trademark application with the institution\u2019s new name and logo. These official changes reflect far more than an innocuous nicknaming.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Furthermore, the judge noted, \u201cCongress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.\u201d Congress has not held a vote on the matter.<\/p>\n

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The ruling also delays plans announced earlier this year to close the center for two years to complete renovations, ruling that timeframe would cause \u201cseveral irreparable harms.\u201d However, Cooper said certain repairs could proceed. <\/p>\n

A full closure of the center may be lawful in the future, he ruled, if the Kennedy Center board receives a more thorough briefing. <\/p>\n

The ruling comes after Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, filed a lawsuit last year arguing the plans were moving forward illegally because she was not allowed to weigh in as an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board. <\/p>\n

Beatty said she logged on to a virtual meeting in December 2025 when she learned the board would vote on adding Trump\u2019s name to the building despite not being on the official meeting agenda, the legal decision states. Beatty tried to vote in opposition \u201cbut found herself involuntarily muted.\u201d<\/p>\n

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