WATCH: Workers finally tear Donald Trump's name off Kennedy Center

Systemic Error Podcast · Jul 3, 2026 · 4m

Workers prepare scaffolding ahead of removing the lettering referencing U.S. President Donald Trump from the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, after a federal judge ordered that President Trump’s name be removed from the building in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 12, 2026. REUTERS/Ken CedenoPersonal Vanity, Public PropertyThe Point Was Never the NameWorkers spent Friday stripping Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center after a federal judge ruled the rename illegal. That is the basic fact pattern. Congress created the institution; only Congress can rename it…