US judge orders Trump’s name be removed from Kennedy Center

Under District Judge ‌Christopher ⁠Cooper’s order, the name will revert to the John F Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, as it was christened when it first opened in 1971 in memory of the US president who was assassinated in 1963.

“The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so,” Cooper, an Obama-era appointee, wrote in a 94-page opinion.

“Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.”