When a board packed with Donald Trump's allies voted in December to add the president's name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the transformation happened almost immediately. By the following morning, crews had worked quickly to fasten 18 letters to the institution's marble facade. Now that work is being quietly dismantled. In a memo obtained by The Atlantic, the Kennedy Center's lawyers today directed employees to remove references to the center being named for anyone other than President John F. Kennedy. The note seems to suggest that Trump will accept a judge's recent order to remove his name from the center. 'This includes email signatures, email communications, letterhead, website, brochures, promotional materials, press releases, signs, references in contracts, MOUs, and other agreements, and every other reference to the 'Trump Kennedy Center,' the Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, or similar name,' read the...
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