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Workers erected scaffolding to begin the process of removing Trump’s name from the iconic performing arts center in Washington.
President Donald Trump’s name is set to be removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., after a federal judge on Friday denied a last-minute bid by the center’s board to delay removal.
Watch a livestream of the anticipated removal above.
Workers on Friday erected scaffolding to begin the process of removing Trump’s name. The Kennedy Center said in a memo to employees earlier this month that Trump’s name must be removed by Friday in accordance with U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper’s May order blocking the center’s renaming.
Some demonstrators outside the Kennedy Center could be heard chanting “take it down” on Friday.
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