The removal of Trump’s name came after a federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center to restore its original name by Friday, June 12.

Crews worked on removing President Trump's name from the Kennedy Center's facade in Washington after a federal judge ordered its removal.

Workers have begun removing President Donald Trump’s name from the facade of the Kennedy Center, hours after a court-ordered Friday deadline

A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s handpicked board at the Kennedy Center did not have the authority to rename the venue.

Scaffolding was erected Friday around a section of the building that includes Trump’s name, but shortly after midnight, the Kennedy Center asked a judge to extend the deadline until noon Eastern Time on Saturday because of thunderstorms that had swept through the Washington area,

Workers remove President Donald Trump’s name from the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts following a federal court ruling.

President Trump's name was taken off the Kennedy Center after a federal judge denied the administration's request that his order be put on hold.

Workers began the process of prying “Donald J. Trump” off the facade of Kennedy Center in the early morning hours on Saturday, after a court found the president’s renaming of the Washington, D.C., landmark was illegal.