The Kennedy Center had until June 12 at midnight to strip the president’s name from the building, but construction crews in hard hats and neon green high-vis vests only started to assemble scaffolding to reach the letters that afternoon.

That midnight deadline came and went without any letters removed from the building.

Cooper and a panel of appeals court judges denied the administration’s 11th-hour attempts to keep Trump’s name on the facade, and workers began adding a tarp to the towering scaffolding shortly after 1 a.m…

Workers eventually began removing letters at 3 a.m. June 13.

But the scaffolding and tarp are still in place.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    I think his staffers never told him about the court ruling, and instead they’ve told him they are replacing all the dull lettering with ā€˜classy’ gold lettering. And now they don’t know how to tell him the truth. So they are stalling by leaving the tarps up there.

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      ā€œI’m sorry, sir. It seems we’ve used all the gold in the world on your Trump Mobile phones. That isn’t a bad thing. The phones were biggly successful. Everyone has one. Putin has two. But, we’re going to have to use a new, even more expensive metal for your name. It’s called Invisbium. Only the most powerful people in the world can even see it. I can’t see it. I’m sure you can, though, sir.ā€

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        Ooh, Trump wants to be greater than an emperor with snazzy clothes?

        Let’s create a custom metal for him called Trumpium, that just happens to be VERY expensive to make, super lightweight, and totally invisible to anyone loyal to him.