Judge Orders Trump to Remove His Name from John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Just Jared - Celebrity News and Gossip

Donald Trump‘s effort to rename the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is being stopped.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper blocked the administration from closing the building for repairs for two years and also from adding adding Trump‘s name to the building, declaring it unlawful and ordering its removal.

The administration has 14 days to remove Trump’s name from both the building and website.

The judge found the board’s decision to close the center for two years for repairs “ill-informed and seemingly preordained decision.”

“The trustees might have assessed the propriety of closure in a number of prudent ways. This was not one,” he wrote, via NBC News.

“However, the preliminary injunction will not prevent the Center from moving forward with the capital repair work it has planned, which the record demonstrates is sorely needed. Nor will it categorically prohibit the Board from closing the Center should it come to this decision anew after independently balancing its multiple obligations to the Center in a prudent fashion,” the judge also determined.

“The Kennedy Center’s 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’s unilateral say-so. Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it,” the judge added.

You can read the full decision here.

“We are confident that on appeal the court will uphold the Board’s will to recognize President Trump’s historic contributions to our nation’s cultural center,” Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi countered. 

Many artists have pulled out of Trump‘s “Freedom 250” concert.

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