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After a judge ordered Trump’s name be removed from the Kennedy Center, president says it will ‘soon be closed, probably never
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President Donald Trump on Saturday branded the federal judge who blocked his renovation of the Kennedy Center as “an anti Trump Hater” and predicted that the nation’s premier performing arts center he wanted to shutter for a two-year overhaul will “soon be closed, probably never to open again.”
Key facts
- Jean Carroll, the longtime advice columnist whose claims against Trump won her a $5 million award in 2023 for sexual abuse and defamation after a jury agreed that Trump sexually abused her in a New
- Trump’s earlier post signaling a retreat from the center gave hope to artists who had been alienated by his takeover, said Norm Eisen, a former White House ethics lawyer who is involved in a lawsuit
- The president noted that Jeffress, a partner at the Hecker Fink law firm, is a former federal prosecutor who served as a counselor to Attorney General Eric Holder during the administration
- Trump asserted that the Kennedy Center, named for the late Democratic president and opened in 1971, was “rusted, rotted, and rat and bug infested” and that the ”new Building would have been incomparable
Summary
District Judge Christopher Cooper who also ordered Trump’s name removed from the center. His post aimed to make the case for the project but did not clarify whether he would continue to defend it in court. The White House did not immediately clarify his position or say whether he would keep serving as the center’s board chairman.