Donald Trump’s name has officially been removed from the facade of the Kennedy Center.

Earlier on Friday, June 12, a crew erected a scaffolding and removed the letters of the president’s name from the facade. As the letters were being removed, crowds cheered and many news outlets live-streamed the process.

The news comes after the Kennedy Center board attempted to appeal the May 29 decision by Judge Cooper, that said that renaming the Kennedy Center was illegal.

The Kennedy Center was renamed in January after the Trump appointed Kennedy Center Board of Trustees voted unanimously to name the institution The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. The move violated the law by which the Kennedy Center was created. According to NBC News  “the law creating the center prohibited any of the facilities from being renamed, other than the Eisenhower Theater, after the president whose administration first authorized its construction in 1958. The project stalled and was revived under President John F. Kennedy, whose family led an effort to get the center built and named in his honor following his assassination. Two months later, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the legislation making it a living memorial to Kennedy. According to U.S. code, ‘After December 2, 1983, no additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.'”

Donald Trump’s name is being removed from the Kennedy Center right now

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