Around 3 a.m. ET on Saturday morning, workers began adding a tarp that obstructed any view of the removal of Trump’s name.

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…

US District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled on May 29 that only Congress could rename the arts centre.

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