A judge rejected a request by the board, run by Trump allies, to pause Friday’s deadline to remove all references to him from its operations.

Construction crews have erected scaffolding outside the Kennedy Center on Friday, the day of the court-ordered deadline to remove President Donald Trump’s name from the building.

President Donald Trump has asked a federal appeals court to stay a lower-court order that his name before removed from the performing arts center.

Workers began removing US President Donald Trump's name from the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts early Saturday, narrowly missing a court-ordered Friday deadline…

The board made a last-minute attempt to halt the order, but U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper rejected the request Friday.