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riversedge

(82,450 posts)
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 12:36 PM 11 hrs ago

Judges reject Kennedy Center effort to reinstate Trump's name

Source: msn.com


Story by Ted Johnson • 38m •


A federal appeals court has rejected the Kennedy Center board’s latest argument for why Donald Trump’s name needs to be added to the complex.

A three-judge panel on Wednesday denied a stay of a lower court order that forced the Kennedy Center to remove Trump’s name, including from the facade of the front of the arts institution. A tarp has covered the name since then, which otherwise would read visibly, “The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.”

Justice Department attorneys had argued that many “donors and companies, who have given, or will be giving, millions of dollars to the Center were only willing to do so with the name ‘Trump’ on the Building.” They noted that a new entity, the Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, hinged on having Trump’s name on the facade and that, according to the foundation bylaws, the funds would have to be returned.

“A stay should therefore be issued to protect the center from financial ruin,” the DOJ attorneys wrote.

But appellate judges wrote that the Kennedy Center board “have failed to support this assertion with any specific facts or evidence. They offer only the conclusory assertions of the Kennedy Center's Executive Director that were made in a factually unsupported declaration.”........




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Trump has never leaned that NO means NO!



Judges reject Kennedy Center effort to reinstate Trump's name

A three-judge panel on Wednesday denied a stay of a lower court order that forced the Kennedy Center to remove Trump’s name, including from the facade of the front of the arts institution

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Tasmanian Devil

(297 posts)
4. Perjury?
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 02:36 PM
9 hrs ago
... the Kennedy Center board “have failed to support this assertion with any specific facts or evidence. They offer only the conclusory assertions of the Kennedy Center's Executive Director that were made in a factually unsupported declaration.”.


Is lying in this kind of filing subject to perjury charges? Can someone demand they supply evidence of their assertions or face the penalties? Why do they feel so entitled to just make shit up? Obviously I'm not a lawyer, but I really don't understand how they can do this without consequences.

Iggo

(50,176 posts)
6. Making claims without supporting proof isn't in and of itself perjury.
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 02:45 PM
9 hrs ago

But yeah, they’re lying.

Tasmanian Devil

(297 posts)
11. Evidence?
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 03:00 PM
9 hrs ago

Could the judge have demanded evidence to back up their claims ... and if they didn't provide any, find them in contempt for lying to the court? Yeah, no doubt naive but I gotta wonder why they feel so free to just make up stuff.

young_at_heart

(4,092 posts)
8. Exactly 'WHO' did this?
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 02:49 PM
9 hrs ago

I'd like to know the names of those people who tried to get his name on the Center. Did Trump order people to do this?

generalbetrayus

(2,099 posts)
9. Are there no prisons, are there no radioactive waste storage sites, are there no Superfund sites
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 02:51 PM
9 hrs ago

that can be named after him to keep the memory of him alive?

How about we rename the [William] Love Canal the Trump and Love Canal?

Pesky1

(96 posts)
10. It's all your fault
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 02:58 PM
9 hrs ago

The fact is that large numbers of legitimate Kennedy Center performers canceled when your disgusting, totally undeserving name was smeared on this magnificent cultural center. This was done because you shoehorned typical Trump lackeys onto the Kennedy Center "board", who then voted for your ego fever dream. And, when the normal performers refused and were replaced by Kid Rock types, regular attendees stopped coming and down went the finances.

So your appeal argument is that some UNKNOWN big contributors won't send the quid without your name on the building. I

Laughable. Easy fix if we get back to honoring excellence again:

1) Fire this group of spineless suck ups and put honorable Center supporters back on the board.
2) Open the Center back up to the type of top performers who have always honored the Center and the country.
3) Watch the finances repair automatically.
4) Then, enjoy your name being placed over a cell the Alcatraz prison you are so eager to reopen.

MLWR

(1,170 posts)
13. He had no business or justification for usurping the name of the center in the first place.
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 03:41 PM
8 hrs ago

More proof that he's completely demented.

twodogsbarking

(19,998 posts)
14. Time for the National Guard to tear down the tarp. It is a matter of national security.
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 04:43 PM
7 hrs ago

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

in2herbs

(4,699 posts)
15. Do what the judge ruled AND take F45's name of the articles of incorporation papers which they altered w/o
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 07:37 PM
4 hrs ago

notice after the new Board took over adding F45's name to bldg.

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