A US federal appeals court on Friday denied the Justice Department’s last-minute request for a temporary pause of a court order directing that President Donald Trump’s name be removed from the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts.
Earlier in the day, the Trump administration and the Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Centre each appealed a federal district judge’s ruling ordering the removal. Under the order, Trump’s name must be removed from the building by Friday midnight. By Friday afternoon, construction crews had cordoned off the section of the Kennedy Centre bearing Trump’s name and begun erecting scaffolding for its removal.
Patrick Nour, a performer at the Kennedy Centre, told Xinhua in front of the scaffolding on Friday evening that he is happy to see that “it isn’t being disgraced”. “It’s a memorial. It isn’t a place where you could just put your name on. It’s dedicated to somebody who did something, not someone who is doing something,” he said.
Xinhua
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