A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s handpicked board at the Kennedy Center did not have the authority to rename the venue.

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.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, an Obama-era appointee, rejected the request on Friday to block the name change at the Kennedy Center.