Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Court Stops Trump’s Renaming of Kennedy Center, Rules Against His Hand Picked Board, Says Only Congress Can Make That Decision

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Donald Trump cannot put his name back on the Kennedy Center.

In a ruling today, Judge Christopher R. Cooper of Federal District Court in Washington that doing so would violate his previous order.

“Simply put, defendants cannot install memorials for President Trump or anyone or anything else at the Kennedy Center without Congress’s blessing,” Judge Cooper wrote. “The board resolution bucks a federal court order and a statute Congress enacted.”

The 34 time convicted felon keeps trying to subvert the court and place his name with an actual president, John F. Kennedy.

But Cooper will not budge.

Meantime, Trump’s name appears thousands of times in the Epstein files. The Iran War continues unabated. Gas and grocery prices are through the roof.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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