New photos of the Kennedy Center show Donald Trump’s name has been taken down from the building’s facade after a monthslong court battle and the recent addition of a tarp blocking public viewing of the removed signage.
Scaffolding and a tarp erected June 13, a day after a federal judge’s deadline to remove Trump’s name from the iconic performing arts center, have hidden the removal from the public.
Mallory Miller, a former Kennedy Center employee and a co-founder of the activist group Hands Off the Arts, which provided the photos to NBC News, said she thinks the tarp’s continued presence is an intentional act to spare Trump’s ego.
“What is clear to me is the Trump administration does not want to see that building without Trump’s name on the facade before they could go through all their appeals,” Miller said Monday night.
Why doesn’t someone just go tear that thing down and have someone standing by to take pictures? We need to see a full frontal picture showing the remnants of Trump’s name with the remaining name still in place. That would be a propaganda goldmine image that could be all over the Internet as long as it was framed as an example of removing the stain of the Trump administration from our lives.