Because someone will. They need to explain something. They will need to explain it well, because it appears that something that was dictated by the judge in court has not been done. This could have consequences. And if it was done, there’s still a second question to answer. Gratitude for Raw Story:
A federal judge is demanding an explanation for the tarp that now hides where President Donald Trump’s name once stood on the Kennedy Center’s façade. U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper issued the order Tuesday in Beatty v. Trump, the lawsuit brought by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) over Trump’s illegal renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Cooper ordered the parties to file a joint status report addressing “the purpose for and status of the tarp and scaffolding that Defendants have erected on the front portico of the Center.”
Well, goodness gracious, oh, my, my, and golly gee, whyever could that tarp still be up? Maybe they couldn’t afford to pay the crew to take down the tarp and the scaffolding? Or the crew has a really long lunch break? Or a certain president still wants it up there? We already know that Trump’s name has been taken down. But, again, the tarps haven’t. They completely ruin the façade of the Kennedy Center for everyone. They should have been down as soon as the name was.
Workers put up the tarp on June 13 — the night Trump’s name came down under Cooper’s court order. It has not come down since. The Kennedy Center says the covering is needed for marble maintenance. Beatty’s lawyers aren’t buying it. “Willfully sabotaging Kennedy Center’s iconic façade to assuage Defendants’ vanity or massage broken egos is a clear breach of fiduciary duty,” her attorneys wrote. Mallory Miller co-founded the activist group Hands Off the Arts and got behind the tarp to photograph the façade. She told NBC News the administration’s motive was plain.
Yep. Trump’s feelings are hurt, and his ego is bruised. It’s about time that he got thwarted. All this crap he’s doing needs to stop. It won’t, unless forced by the courts, but it was getting old the second day of his second term. He has delusions of grandeur that just won’t quit. If anything, they keep getting bigger. Just think of the ballroom from the original concept to now. 999 people? How on earth would you feed them all at the same time? And now back on topic…
“The Trump administration does not want to see that building without Trump’s name on the façade before they could go through all their appeals,” Miller said. Beatty’s attorney, Nathaniel Zelinsky, was more direct. “It certainly seems like an attempt to hide embarrassment on Donald Trump’s part,” he told The Washingtonian. Cooper’s order also rejected the administration’s bid to delay answering Beatty’s lawsuit while an appeal plays out. In a sworn court declaration, Kennedy Center Executive Director Matt Floca said the center has halted steps toward a full closure and will stay open past July 5. Cooper accepted that for now, but warned Beatty can return to court if the promise falls apart. Defendants must answer Beatty’s complaint in full by June 29.
We won’t even wander by SCOTUS, but otherwise, it seems that the court system has had enough of Trump’s blatant attempts to submit lawsuits just so he can get more money. Courts are done with the manipulation. They are done with him. They are done. He’s not even trying to be subtle, not that he ever was, but you get the idea. Look at the slush fund he was trying to create so he could pay millions to J6ers. But for now, he’s getting pushback on the Kennedy Center. None of the usual tactics is working. It’s a start.
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I’m glad they’re staying on top of this.