Trump better get used to it. The process of rewriting and adding Donald Trump to history took its first step when the Kennedy Center began removing Trump’s name and references to the current president from the living monument to former President John F. Kennedy.
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For those who don’t remember how we got here. Shortly after returning to the presidency, Donald Trump hijacked the Kennedy Center board and put himself in charge.
Trump then had his board vote to rename the center in his name and that of President Kennedy.
The problem is that Trump’s actions were illegal, because the center was created by legislative act and only Congress has the authority to rename or change the Kennedy Center.
The administration and Trump were prosecutedand a judge ordered Trump’s name removed and that Trump’s planned closure of the center for renovation be scrapped.
It was unclear whether the Trump administration, which views compliance with the law as optional, would comply, but Thursday provided the first sign that Trump’s name is getting out of the building.