A federal judge has decided to micromanage President Donald Trump’s plans to have essential repairs done on a failing federal building, the Kennedy Center.
The fight is just one part of the swamp’s opposition to Trump’s agenda, which includes a new donated ballroom at the White House, an arch recognizing the 250th anniversary of the nation and more.
One of the projects was Trump’s announcement that the center would be shut down for necessary repairs, a decision announced by its board of directors.
Judge Christopher Cooper said his opinion was that the repairs could be done without the two-year closure.
He said, “The trustees might have assessed the propriety of closure in a number of prudent ways. This was not one.”
He issued a preliminary injunction demanding that his strategy be followed instead.
He claimed, “The preliminary injunction will not prevent the center from moving forward with the capital repair work it has planned, which the record demonstrates is sorely needed. Nor will it categorically prohibit the board from closing the center should it come to this decision anew after independently balancing its multiple obligations to the center in a prudent fashion.”
He further delivered an insult to Trump, ordering that the president’s name be stricken from the building, which had been renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center in a decision by its board.
According to NBC, the judge claimed the “organic statute” for the center named it for Kennedy, and “it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the board’s unilateral say-so.”
Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi said, “We are confident that on appeal the court will uphold the board’s will to recognize President Trump’s historic contributions to our nation’s cultural center.”
The judge, who was given his lifetime job and income by Barack Obama, was acting in a lawsuit brought by another Democrat, Joyce Beatty, who was an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center Board.
The center’s board had voted last winter, unanimously, the call it “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.”
Besides physical conditions at the building needing repairs so major some advisers said it should be torn down, its attendance had sagged in recent months, as its programming was considered beyond “woke” into far-leftism.
A Daily Mail report concluded that the judge said the center board needed to be “more thoughtful.”
Trump commented: “Shockingly, a Judge appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, Christopher Cooper, ruled that The Kennedy Center, which was going to close in early July for largescale renovations and construction due to years of neglect, decay, and poor maintenance, and which was to be transformed by the Trump Administration into the Finest Facility of its kind, anywhere in the World, is not allowed to close for these renovations, which would not be possible to properly do without such a closure.”
He continued, “Additionally, Judge Cooper ruled that the 36 Member Board of Trustees, which unanimously voted to add the name ‘TRUMP’ onto the former Kennedy Center, making it The Trump Kennedy Center, did not have the right to do such an addition, and the name, ‘TRUMP,’ must be removed. The Kennedy Center has lost, over the years, prior to our getting involved a short while ago, Hundreds of Millions of Dollars — In some cases, including ridiculous construction jobs that were done, over 100 Million Dollars a year. I took great pride in taking over a losing Institution, and looked forward to making it into a Great and Prestigious WINNER for Washington, D.C., and indeed, the United States of America.
“Unfortunately, Judge Cooper and the Radical Left would rather see it DIE than have President Trump transform it into something that everyone could be proud of, much as I have done, in many cases, throughout my life, and recently, with all of the construction, renovations, and ‘fix ups’ that we have completed with the Department of Interior on Waterfalls, Fountains, Monuments, and other things of Beauty that we have brought back to life in a now SAFE AND SECURE, after Record Setting Crime, Washington, D.C., which is thriving like, perhaps, never before!”
He said the next step would be to send the center “back” to Congress “so they can make a determination as to what to do with it.”
He noted the judge had been given details about how the building is “structurally dangerous” with “rotting beams.”
“Judge Cooper should be ashamed of himself! I cannot be involved with a situation where danger to the Public is allowed to flourish in plain and open sight. Unless I am free to do what I do better than anyone else, bring this Institution back, physically, financially, and artistically, I have no interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey into ‘NEVER NEVER LAND,'” Trump said.
He said he’s told the Department of Commerce to make all necessary arrangements with Congress to allow a full and complete transfer of this Institution, “giving them the responsibility for its Operation, Maintenance, and Management.”
