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In an incensed social media post, President Trump suggested that the ruling might prompt him to cast the center aside after more than a year at its helm.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCongress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it,\u201d Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the Federal District Court in Washington wrote in a ruling on Friday.<\/span>Credit…<\/span>Eric Lee for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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A federal judge ordered on Friday that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts remove President Trump\u2019s name from the building\u2019s facade<\/a> and all official branding and temporarily blocked the institution from shuttering this summer for renovations.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump railed against the judge\u2019s ruling in an incensed social media post<\/a>, suggesting that he was considering casting the <\/strong>Kennedy Center aside as one of his personal projects. The president wrote that unless he was free to decide the center\u2019s trajectory, he had \u201cno interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, Judge Cooper and the Radical Left would rather see it DIE than have President Trump transform it into something that everyone could be proud of, much as I have done, in many cases, throughout my life,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Judge Christopher R. Cooper, of the Federal District Court in Washington, determined that the board\u2019s decision to add Mr. Trump\u2019s name to the Kennedy Center violated a law passed by Congress in 1964 that made \u201ccrystal clear\u201d the institution was to be named for former President John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cCongress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it,\u201d the judge wrote in a 94-page opinion<\/a>. He ordered that the 18 letters added to the center\u2019s front portico be removed within two weeks.<\/p>\n

The center\u2019s board of trustees, a vast majority of whom are allies of Mr. Trump, voted in December to add the president\u2019s name to the performing arts center<\/a>. Less than a day later, new lettering was added to the building\u2019s marble facade, which now reads: \u201cThe Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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