Desperate Trump Defies Judge in Kennedy Center Vanity Battle

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters Donald Trump and his allies have moved to put the president’s name back on the Kennedy Center and partially close the storied venue for a controversial two-year overhaul. Despite a federal judge’s order to remove his name, the center’s board, chaired b

Kennedy Center had sued Chuck Redd for canceling Christmas Eve concert after Trump renamed institution A superior court judge in Washington DC has ordered the Kennedy Center to pay more than $250,000 to a musician who canceled a performance at the arts center after the White House announced that Donald Trump’s name wou

A judge ordered the Kennedy Center to pay over $250,000 in legal fees to jazz musician Chuck Redd after he canceled his Christmas concert in protest of President Donald Trump. Redd canceled the annual Christmas Eve performance he hosted at the cultural center in December after nearly 20 years, after Trump added his nam

A Joe Biden-appointed judge in D.C. has ordered the Kennedy Center to pay a jazz musician a $250,000 fee after the organization tried to sue him for cancelling his concert because he opposes President Donald Trump.

The center had sued Chuck Redd when he canceled a free concert last year, citing the addition of the Trump name to the venue. But a judge dismissed the case.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. ordered the Kennedy Center to pay $250,000 in legal fees to musician Chuck Redd, whom the arts center sued for cancelling a Christmas Eve concert after President Donald Trump’s name was added to the building’s facade.