5 Takeaways From a Kennedy Center Ruling That Angered Trump NYT | Top Stories By: Zach Montague and Julia Jacobs 30 May 2026 at 17:02 A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center to take President Trump’s name off the building. What happens next? © Doug Mills/The New York TimesPresident Trump, the chairman of the Kennedy Center, wrote on social media that “we are going to be working with Congress to transfer this failing Institution back to them.”