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Workers were tearing President Donald Trump's name off the Kennedy Center on Friday as onlookers nearby chanted and cheered.

Thousands tuned in on livestreams from ABC 7, WUSA9, Reuters, Fox 10, the Associated Press, Forbes, and MS NOW to watch it happen in real time. A crowd assembled outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as workers erected scaffolding on the façade. A judge had killed the Trump board's last-ditch legal attempt to stop the removal just hours earlier, leaving a midnight deadline intact.

President Donald Trump has been ordered by a federal court to yank his name off the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, losing his last-ditch appeal, and giving him no choice but to acquiesce.

The moment is symbolic, Brookings Institution senior fellow Elaine Kamarck told MS NOW's Antonia Hylton on Friday — and she even compared it to one of the most infamous moments at the end of the Saddam Hussein dictatorship in Iraq.

Amid the ongoing peace talks between Washington and Tehran, Iranian negotiators have recently enlisted the help of “senior psychologists” to help them navigate what they believe to be a pressing issue involving President Donald Trump, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill claimed Friday, citing Iranian sources.

“A couple of weeks ago, the Iranian side added senior psychologists to their negotiating team to review the communications that they were going to be sending to the mediators to give to Trump,” Scahill said during an appearance on the podcast “Breaking Points.”

Workers began tearing Donald Trump's name off the Kennedy Center Friday, carrying out a federal court order his own lawyers had scrambled overnight to block.

A federal judge ruled last month that the renaming was flatly illegal. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said Trump's hand-picked board never had the authority to put the president's name on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts — because Congress created it and only Congress gets to rename it. The lawsuit was filed by Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat who sits on the center's board as an ex officio member.

Prominent conservative commentator Tucker Carlson hurled a shock allegation at President Donald Trump on Thursday involving the federal investigation into Thomas Crooks, the man accused of attempting to assassinate the president ahead of the 2024 election.

Carlson was interviewed Thursday by Mario Nawal, a Lebanese-Australian entrepreneur and prominent podcast host, during which he claimed that former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino had told him last December that the federal probe into Crooks had been “shut down” — and by whom.

A pair of three-time Donald Trump voters from Ohio had little good to say about the president when speaking with MS NOW’s Alex Tabet Friday, complaining about the state of the economy and all of Trump’s broken promises.

Prior to the clip that ran on “Morning Joe," co-host Jonathan Lemire reported that a Conn-Selmer plant in Eastlake, Ohio is being shuttered with the billionaire owner, Trump ally John Paulson, “sending all those jobs to China.”

Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance are expecting their fourth child, and Fox News host Brian Kilmeade already has a name in mind – one he pitched to colleagues Friday and sparked an awkward silence.

According to USA Today, Vance and Usha have yet to decide on a name for their child, a boy who’s expected in July. Friday morning, Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade offered the vice president his own suggestion for a name — one that involved honoring President Donald Trump.

According to branding expert Donnie Deutsch, Donald Trump’s desire to be the central topic of every day will lead him to deny his MAGA crown to either Secretary of State Marco Rubio or Vice President JD Vance.

Deutsch, a former friend of Trump’s going back to their Manhattan days, told the hosts of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” that the president will instead tab one of his children to keep the Trump name in the headlines.

Should a desperate Donald Trump sign off on the latest deal with Iran that led him to call off a major attack late Thursday, he would suffer a “major humiliation” based on leaked details.

That is according to Insider editor Michael Weiss, who appeared on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” on Friday morning and claimed that the president has come to the realization that he was duped into the whole endeavor.