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United States Representative from Ohio since 2013
No — President Donald Trump’s name, added to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in December 2025, has not been removed; workers installed new exterior letters and the institution updat...
Unemployment under Barack Obama fell steadily from the Great Recession peak of about 10% in 2009 to roughly 4.7% by January 2017, while under Donald Trump the rate was lower on the eve of the pandemic...
Available reporting documents a wave of artist cancellations, board purges, a hasty renaming and multiple legal challenges after the Kennedy Center’s board was overhauled in 2025, but none of the supp...
to rename public facilities have repeatedly collided with statutory limits, governing agency processes, and political pushback, producing a mix of administrative orders, congressional bills, and court...
established as a statutory "living memorial" to , and that statute contains explicit limits on adding memorials or plaques in the Center’s public areas, which many legal experts and pending litigation...
The short answer: and a newly constituted Kennedy Center board have affixed his name to the institution and are publicly calling it the “,” but that rebranding is contested and not universally recogni...
’s contends board’s vote to append ’s name was unlawful because alone set and can change the center’s statutory name, and that the board’s process was a “sham” that silenced dissenting trustees; her c...
The short legal answer is: not unilaterally — the president cannot simply close the without key institutional approvals and likely legal scrutiny; Trump has announced a two‑year shutdown but framed it...