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Trump Won't Get Away With Tarping Off The Kennedy Center

The judge has ordered the administration to provide a status update on construction at the Kennedy Center by Friday, as it looks like Trump won't be able to keep the removal of his name hidden.

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Jun 17, 2026
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In retrospect, we should have seen this coming. After being humiliated and forced to take his name off the Kennedy Center, Donald Trump would never be able to allow such a blow to his ego to be viewed by the public.

Trump was always going to hide his failure because hiding his failures is how he built the myth of Donald J. Trump.

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The tarp covering the Kennedy Center is a cover-up from an administration that seems to specialize in them, but this time, it looks like he won’t get away with it.

The New York Times reported:

A federal judge who has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plan to close the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for renovations issued an order on Tuesday that gave officials three days to update him on its plan.

The Kennedy Center has pushed back on the judge’s ruling that suspended the administration’s plan to close the center for two years.

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