Listen as people cheer “take it down” as workers prepare to take Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center. pic.

After a judge said the president’s name had to go, crowds braced for a cathartic moment.

Donald Trump’s name was ordered to be removed from The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts despite multiple legal challenges.

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.