What's with the damn tarp at the Kennedy center?

[pat_k]

I'm on the west coast and just got up. When did the tarp go up? I'm not seeing much in the way of reporting on it. Any estimates on "the reveal"? Or does the felon wanna just keep it covered forever?

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Did you mean to post this twice?

The options button allows you to self delete.

[pat_k]

19. No, didn't see until both were replied to so I left them.

Not sure how it happened.

[Blue Owl]

2. Pedophiles like hiding things

[Ocelot II]

3. The tarp went up after many hours of building a scaffold tall enough to hang it from.

They missed the midnight deadline for the removal of the letters, got an extension until noon today, and before they did start in on that process at about 1:00 ET they hung up a tarp so nobody could see them take the letters off. Somebody did get a photo from the side of the wall of a worker taking off the D (or maybe the P), so presumably by now the letters are gone (the 12-hour extension expires in 45 minutes), but the tarp remains.

[Deuxcents]

7. Thank you..I was up last night until almost 2 watching this fiasco and I, too, had the same questions

Best explanation, this morning

[yellow dahlia]

10. I finally went to bed at 2am, as they were putting up the 2nd section of tarp.

It is a real insult to all of us to deny us the ability to see the court order fulfilled.

But it is a larger afront to the people who were there for hours yesterday in the heat...and rain...and a thunderstorm.

Just one more example that he not a president for the people of this country. He is a con man who has taken over the oval office.

[pat_k]

29. It certainly won't come down on the felonious asshole's birthday.

He is obsessed with his birthday.

I'd bet that a condition of the extension of the ceasefire is that it is signed on his birthday. When it isn't, he'll have a tantrum and it will fall apart.

[Siwsan]

4. The court ordered the name removed by noon but didn't mention anything about the tarp deadline

[usonian]

5. What's with the damn hiding of the Epstein files?

[Ocelot II]

6. They're behind the tarp.

[blm]

8. Trump's fragile ego can't handle public shame

[malaise]

9. Curtains for Donvict

That is all

[yellow dahlia]

11. The tarp is yet another insult to the American people.

It denied those that withstood the heat and weather yesterday the right to see the desecration removed from our treasured Kennedy Center.

[malaise]

12. As one person wrote

The arrogance of a man placing his name above the memorial of another man is disgusting. I think disgusting is mild

[yellow dahlia]

13. I find our descriptive adjectives are never enough any more.

I have taken to putting the F word in front of them for amplification. And a few explanation points help. Fucking disgusting!!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Here is the filing with the court on trump's name being removed from the Kennedy Center

Link to tweet

And, there we go: “Defendants … have … Removed all physical signage on the Kennedy Center building and grounds, including the front portico, that purports to rename the Kennedy Center after President Trump or any other individual besides President Kennedy.”

No mention of the tarp

[Maru Kitteh]

15. Petulance.

Not too complicated. No need to overthink this.

[mopinko]

16. they were afraid of a 'berlin wall' moment.

they’re not wrong.

[0rganism]

17. However it got there, I think it's gonna stay for a while

We'll be lucky if it's down before 2028

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. trump covering up the Kennedy Center wall doesn't mean we don't know what happened in there

The same goes for the Epstein files.

[senseandsensibility]

20. trump is skeered that people are going to laugh at him

when his name comes down and he has the thinnest skin of any living being. Yes, the guy who loves to dish it out can't take even a little bit of. Shocking, I know.

[Sympthsical]

21. There are 15 threads about the tarp on GD first page

I dunno. Kind of amusing. I think there might be more than 15, but I stopped counting.

Not a criticism really. I just find it fascinating that people are fixated on this. It's always the oddest little things that capture attention on social media as a symbol for larger sentiment.

[Skittles]

26. the entire government was handed over to an orange assclown and his bootlickers

ANY small victory can feel HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

22. Tarpstein.

[malaise]

23. Well played

Rec

[usedtobedemgurl]

24. He is keeping the tarp up until...

He reveals behind it he will take down the Kennedy name and put hisup.in big letters, by itself! What would happen to him if he did this. He does things and does not ask permission later.

[struggle4progress]

25. Everything rump does is an attempt to cover-up something

[Goonch]

27. ;-{) TARP

[Norrrm]

28. Such a snowflake.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

30. MaddowBlog-Crews removed Trump's name from the Kennedy Center, but hid results from the public

The removal of the president’s name was poised to be a symbolically significant event. His team, however, preferred a literal cover-up.

Crews removed Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center, but hid results from the public www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Philly Joe (@joehick58.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T18:37:17.900Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-kennedy-center-name-removed-cover-up

Late last week, the administration made several last-ditch efforts to halt implementation of the ruling before the court-imposed deadline, but to no avail. MS NOW reported:

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has been restored to its original name.

President Donald Trump’s name was officially cleared from the marble façade of the storied cultural institution on Saturday, the Kennedy Center said, after last-minute attempts by the Trump administration to delay a federal judge’s ruling that the name cannot be changed.

There’s still some legal wrangling on the horizon, but at this point, it’s worth pausing to note how exactly the Kennedy Center was restored to its legal name.

On Friday, a crowd assembled to watch crews remove Trump’s name from the wall, and while I wasn’t personally there, by all accounts, the audience was prepared to celebrate a good show. The Washington Post reported, “The atmosphere was festival-like: People brought their dogs, their partners and their children.”....

But as of late Sunday, the public still wasn’t allowed to see the work that had been done.

Workers are adding a curtain obstructing the view of the removal of Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2026-06-13T05:41:32.232Z

The removal of Trump’s name was poised to be a symbolically significant event. The authoritarian-minded leader, fixated on self-glorification, tried to force his name onto a memorial for a celebrated assassinated president, a court instead upheld the law, and a crowd assembled to watch the crew precisely because of the indelible images that would soon emerge.

But Trump’s team, no doubt mindful of the circumstances, preferred a literal cover-up.

It’s something to keep in mind the next time White House officials boast about the president and his administration enthusiastically embracing “transparency.”

As for the future of the Kennedy Center, the president’s appointees at the venue announced over the weekend that they had established the Trump Kennedy Center Fund, which will purportedly help raise money for the center. Trump, the appointees added, will be the chairman.

trump is a baby. There is no way that his name will be put back onto this building without an act of congress.