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.

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.

In the interim, Judge Christopher R. Cooper of Federal District Court in Washington asked for a status report from the Kennedy Center that would include plans for “public access and ongoing programming, activities and operations” should the center stay open past July 4, which the president proposed as a closing date.

The administration is arguing that the tarp and other roped off areas of the center must remain closed because “the building is in bad shape,” which is interesting because no previous administration has raised concerns about the building’s condition.

If the building is damaged, it is possibly because Trump damaged it.

Trump is not going to be able to throw a tarp over the Kennedy Center for the next two-plus years and pretend like the removal of his name never happened.

The Kennedy Center is a monument to President John F. Kennedy, who remains something that Trump will never be. Kennedy is a beloved presidential icon.

No court should allow Trump to deface the monument to JFK, and then cover up his disgrace with a tarp.

This time, it looks like Donald Trump isn’t going to get away with it.

What do you think about the judge’s order, and Trump’s tarp? Share your thoughts in the comments below.