{"id":2495,"date":"2026-06-11T22:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:35:17","slug":"kennedy-center-board-plans-to-appeal-judges-ruling-over-removing-trumps-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2495","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Center board plans to appeal judge\u2019s ruling over removing Trump\u2019s name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<button><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Summary<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<span><svg><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span><svg><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/button><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Kennedy Center board voted to appeal a federal judge&#8217;s ruling that ordered the removal of President Donald Trump&#8217;s name from the historic arts venue.<\/li>\n<li>Trump dialed into the meeting, which a source likened to an episode of &#8220;Veep,&#8221; and criticized the judge.<\/li>\n<li>The board, full of Trump loyalists, also passed a resolution honoring Trump&#8217;s contributions to the institution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            President Donald Trump\u2019s handpicked Kennedy Center board of trustees convened Thursday for a board meeting to discuss plans to appeal a judge\u2019s ruling \u2014 hoping to halt the ordered removal of Trump\u2019s name from the building and go forward with a planned closure for the storied arts center.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2493\">Group of Epstein survivors announce opposition to Todd Blanche\u2019s attorney general nomination<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            In the afternoon meeting, the board voted to file an appeal that would contest US District Judge Casey Cooper\u2019s decision, according to a source familiar with the matter, which said that the board violated the law when it added Trump\u2019s name to the historic performing arts venue. Cooper also said the center may still move ahead with renovations to the decades-old building and could later decide to close the center after its board more fully considered the impact on its statutory requirement to maintain some programming at all times.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In his ruling, Cooper gave the center 14 days to remove all references to the name \u201cTrump Kennedy Center\u201d or the \u201cDonald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.\u201d Those efforts have begun, with the center\u2019s general counsel imploring staff to remove the name from their email signatures last week and a change to the website logo, though the exterior signage remains in place as of Thursday.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2491\">Rubio compares the founding of the UFC to landing a man on the moon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The appeal is expected to be filed tomorrow, the source said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The source compared the meeting to an episode of the political satire show \u201cVeep,\u201d telling CNN that Trump, who dialed in to the meeting from the Oval Office via Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick\u2019s iPhone, spent part of the session lambasting Cooper. Trump and Lutnick, the source added, attacked Cooper\u2019s wife, Amy Jeffress, who served as former President Joe Biden\u2019s personal lawyer.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The board, full of Trump loyalists, also discussed a resolution to honor Trump that would recognize his \u201cmajor contributions,\u201d his \u201cprofound dedication,\u201d and his \u201cunprecedented \u2026 commitment to uphold this cherished American institution,\u201d according to a copy of the resolution viewed by CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2489\">US puts up $750K to evacuate an American who was aboard hantavirus cruise ship from remote island<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            It passed.\n    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s handpicked Kennedy Center board of trustees discussed plans to appeal a judge\u2019s ruling \u2014 hoping to halt the ordered removal of Trump\u2019s name from the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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