It’s so much fun to stumble across these gems like the one to follow. A little bit here and there to cheer up our day. It’s a “there, there” and a pat on the head for the cause of said news, which is whining and crying. Frankly, there are enough people in our government that we detest that these little gems show them in a less-than-flattering light. Gratitude to Raw Story:
Photographs smuggled out from behind tarp-covered scaffolding at the Kennedy Center reveal what President Donald Trump has spent nine days trying to hide. His name is gone. The images, first obtained by activist group Hands Off the Arts and independently verified by The Washington Post, show two rows of blank square panels on the performing arts venue’s marble facade, where Trump’s name had been affixed since December.
No wonder he won’t take the tarps down. He doesn’t want to be embarrassed for the reverse of something he did without* actual* research. Just because *his* board said yes, go ahead, doesn’t mean that Congress did. Trump keeps trying to buck the system, and that isn’t working anymore. The good part is that courts can’t be bought and sold. SCOTUS doesn’t count because they’re in his hip pocket. That’s another story. Let’s not get started.
“This is the picture the Trump administration does not want anyone to see, so it’s all the more important … that people have an opportunity to witness when they’re winning,” said Mallory Miller, co-founder of Hands Off the Arts. The name came down in the early morning hours of June 14. A 14-member crew completed the court-ordered removal around 3 a.m., hours past the judicial deadline. Rather than pull back the scaffolding and let the public see the results, the Kennedy Center left tarps and barricades up, with security guards blocking any view of the facade. A spokeswoman said the scaffolding “will remain up as crews address maintenance needs of the marble and soffit panels.”
Yea no. It’s because Trump doesn’t want it to be seen, so now we can’t see the original façade, either. What kind of maintenance is needed? What is the cost going to be? Who will be doing it? Sure, the façade may need maintenance, but there’s more to it than a nonsense sentence or three. Something like that should be pretty major, considering all the marble. They’ll have to be doing a lot of misdirection for *months*. It should be entertaining to watch.
The tarp cover was “starting to arouse suspicion,” with some questioning whether the name had actually been removed. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled last month that Trump’s board had violated federal law when it voted to rename the venue. Only Congress, which created the Kennedy Center, has the authority to change its name. Lawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), whose lawsuit forced the removal, accused Trump’s allies on the board of willfully sabotaging the facade in “a petty act of defiance.” Trump had railed against the court order on social media, vowing he had “no interest” in continuing what he called a “hopeless journey.”
Hopeless journey, what huh? What does that even mean? Something for the Kennedy Center? Or is it his personal journey, not that he ever does anything resembling introspection? Maybe his presidential journey? We could do that for days. There are any number of journeys he is taking that are good by his reckoning, or bad, like he’s a lame duck. So, this isn’t exactly big news, but it’s good to know his name is not desecrating the façade of the Kennedy Center anymore. Let’s hope it stays that way.
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