{"id":706686,"date":"2026-06-16T03:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/706686\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T03:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:30:07","slug":"trumps-name-is-off-the-kennedy-center-a-tarp-is-still-hiding-the-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/706686\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s name is off the Kennedy Center. A tarp is still hiding the proof."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MHPFPK6V2RA7FIIGICVVR37KGQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">President Donald Trump\u2019s name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/2026\/06\/12\/kennedy-center-removes-trumps-name-building\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/2026\/06\/12\/kennedy-center-removes-trumps-name-building\/\">came off the Kennedy Center<\/a> in the dead of night Saturday. More than 60 hours later, almost no one has seen it gone.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PPWTAARHAFFQXDA2OK5QZMGJDA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Around 3 a.m. Saturday, a 14-member crew pried the 18 letters \u201cThe Donald J. Trump and\u201d off the building\u2019s exterior, after a thrumming crowd of more than 200 chanting \u201cTake it down!\u201d had dwindled to a dozen or so die-hards. Then, the workers climbed down and left \u2014 without removing the scaffolding they\u2019d erected or the massive tarps they\u2019d draped over it. Security guards have flanked the barricaded scaffolding ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump\u2019s name came off the Kennedy Center in the dead of night Saturday. More than 60&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-706686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}