The Kennedy Center is accused of turning the nation’s national cultural center into a “lifeless husk” and of keeping up huge tarps that block the building’s sign, which no longer contains President Donald Trump’s name, to “massage broken egos” in court documents, as the legal battle over the performing arts venue drags on.
Plaintiff Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, criticized the tarps blocking the Kennedy Center sign in a court filing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Lawyers representing Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, who sued Trump and the Kennedy Center in December over Trump’s legally dubious bid to rename the center after himself, accused the center of dodging court orders to remove all Trump-related branding and to keep operations open after a judge blocked its planned closure for renovations.
Beatty’s lawyers noted a large tarp “inexplicably remains” outside the Kennedy Center, preventing onlookers from seeing where Trump’s name has been removed, accusing the center of “undermining” the court’s order to restore the original name.
Beatty’s filing also accuses the Kennedy Center of turning the venue into a “lifeless husk” by allegedly failing to comply with a court order that prevented the center from shutting down for two years of renovations, noting the center has hardly scheduled programming for after July 5, when the closure was planned.
