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'Take it down!' Crowd electric as workers tear Trump's name off Kennedy Center
Trump Tried to Brand a Public Institution as His Own. The Court Gave the Center Back to Congress.The SourceWorkers were stripping Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center after a federal judge rejected the board’s last legal move to keep it there. The name had been attached to the building’s marble façade by Trump’s handpicked board in December 2025, despite the judge’s earlier ruling that Congress, not the board, controls the naming of a congressionally named building.Who Had PowerThe actual institutional power in this story was never in the chants or the crowd. It sat with Congress…
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