Staff at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts have been directed to remove President Trump’s name from the Washington venue, NPR reported Thursday, June 5.
The instruction came as an internal directive to Kennedy Center employees – though NPR’s report didn’t identify who issued it or whether the order came from within the center’s leadership or from outside the institution.
Background
Trump’s name had been added to the Kennedy Center during his administration, attaching it to one of the country’s most prominent federally chartered arts venues. The center, named for President John F. Kennedy and opened in 1971, sits on the Potomac River in Washington and operates under a federal charter.
The directive to pull Trump’s name reverses that addition. It isn’t clear from the NPR report when the physical removal of signage or other name references would be completed, and the Kennedy Center hadn’t publicly commented on the move as of Thursday evening.
NPR didn’t say whether any formal vote or board action preceded the staff directive, and the timeline for full implementation remains unspecified.
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