Now: Crews Begin Work to Remove Trump’s Name from Kennedy Center

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 13 June 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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An appeals court is keeping intact a federal judge’s ruling requiring the Kennedy Center to remove President Trump’s name from its building by the end of Friday. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a last-minute effort by the center to freeze the judge’s ruling so that it wouldn’t need to comply while more court proceedings play out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.6	Breaking right now, a midnight deadline for President Trump's name to be removed from the Kennedy
0:37.6	Center. The work is about to begin will take you there live. Plus, Trump and Iran inching closer
0:43.4	to an agreement, or so they say, are red flags already emerging? And welcome to the trillionaire
0:50.2	era, courtesy of Elon Musk. But is he really worth that much? Should he or anyone be worth
0:56.3	that much? All that tonight on Laura Coates Live. You're looking at live pictures of the
1:02.9	Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where at any moment Donald Trump's name is expected to be
1:07.0	chiseled off of the building. Trump tried to stop it with a last-minute appeal,
1:12.3	but a judge denied it ordering the name removed by midnight,
1:15.9	roughly about 45 to 50 minutes from now.
1:19.1	I want to bring in CNN, Sunnland, Sir Fadi,
1:21.3	who is outside the Kennedy Center for us?
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