Lawmakers intensify efforts to remove Trump's name from Kennedy Center
Source: CBS News
January 21, 2026 / 6:00 AM EST / CBS News
The move by the board to add President Trump's name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., has triggered a series of legal and legislative challenges. At least one federal lawsuit and two congressional measures seek to strip Trump's name from the exterior signs and website of the historic theater complex.
In a federal civil lawsuit, Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat who serves as one of the Kennedy Center's trustees, is asking a court to rule that her fellow Kennedy Center board members violated the law in December 2025, in voting to add Mr. Trump's name to the center.
The suit also seeks a judge's order to "declare that the name of Kennedy Center is 'The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' and declare that the vote to change the Kennedy Center's name is null and void, and without legal effect."
Multiple sources told CBS News the Trump administration is expected to formally respond to Beatty's lawsuit by the end of February. In her suit, Beatty noted that soon after President Kennedy was assassinated, Congress designated the yet-to-be-built Kennedy Center "as the sole national memorial to the late President within the nation's capital."
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I think that is a KEY argument. That facility is the ONLY one to explicitly honor JFK in D.C. and now 45 has shit all over it.
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