A judge ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump's move to add his name to the Kennedy Center violated the law — and the internet responded to the president's latest legal blow.
U.S. District Judge Casey Cooper wrote that the law "makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy." Kennedy Center officials were ordered to remove Trump's name from signage at the performing arts center.
People mocked Trump over the court loss.
"A federal judge has ruled Trump’s name must be removed from the Kennedy Center. Someone is going to have a hissy. Hide the ketchup bottles stat," Mike Bates, a political commentator with more than 11,000 followers, wrote on X.
"Written law for the win," Charles C. W. Cooke, senior editor at The National Review, wrote on X.
"Well, the (Trump) Kennedy Center name was short lived. Who's going to pay to take his name down and restore the original version. Think Trump should have to come out of pocket for this!" Craig Beam, former chair of the American Heart Association, wrote on X.
"If Trump won't, it I bet a bunch of us would volunteer to go to DC and take care of it," author and scholar Bethanny Mannon wrote on Bluesky.
"He should be fine with this, he’s used to putting his name up on buildings and then having it taken down," writer and strategist Wynter Mitchell Rohrbaugh, who has more than 18,000 followers, wrote on Threads.
