Maria Shriver celebrates judge’s decision to remove Trump’s name from Kennedy Center
Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Maria Shriver has responded to a federal judge’s order to remove President Donald Trump’s name from the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. On Friday, District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C., blocked Trump from renaming the performing space to “Trump-Kennedy Center,” saying Congress made it “crystal clear” that the building is to be named after former President John F. Kennedy. Cooper also said the center “cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial” based on a “unilateral say-so” from a Trump-appointed board. Shriver — the daughter of John F. Kennedy’s sister, Eunice Kennedy — expressed her excitement about the decision Friday, on what would have been Kennedy’s 109th birthday. “An appropriate birthday present on my uncle’s birthday today,” she wrote on Threads. “A federal judge ruled that President Trump and the Kennedy Center Board acted unlawfully …



