A federal judge on Friday denied an appeal by the board of trustees at the Kennedy Center seeking to keep President Donald Trump's name on the venue.

Visitors reacted to a judge's ruling to take President Donald Trump's name off the Kennedy Center, which has prompted the administration to appeal.

A formal stay is expected to be filed on Friday after a federal judge had earlier ruled that only Congress could change the name of the center.

Merchandise with the Trump name remains for sale in the Kennedy Center gift shop in the hours before a federal judge’s deadline to remove U.S. President Donald Trump's name from the facade of the John F.

The president's move to appeal comes after a judge ruled that Trump's name had been added to the iconic DC building illegally and must be removed.

The center’s board of trustees on Thursday voted to seek a stay of U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper’s directive to take Trump’s name off the center’s exterior by Friday.

One day before a deadline to take the president’s name off its facade, the arts institution appealed a federal judge’s ruling that also temporarily blocked it from closing.

President Trump's board at the Kennedy Center is mounting a last-minute effort to keep his name on the facade of the performing arts facility before a court-ordered deadline to remove it by Friday.