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Jonathan Edwards

@jonathanreports.bsky.social
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Breaking: Rep. Joyce Beatty has filed emergency motion challenging Kennedy Center's abrupt closure to public for two years of renovations. "It seems Defendants may be violating the “clear and unambiguous order of the Court,” her lawyers wrote.
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts just closed its doors, hours after its board of trustees, led by President Donald Trump, voted to immediately shut down for two years of renovations. From reporter Grey Battle who's on the ground.
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Breaking: Federal judge bars Kennedy Center from once again adding President Donald Trump's name to the the performing arts venue.
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I just got out of a congressional hearing focused on the White House's "Saving America's Story" report attacking the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Two narratives emerged. (1/6)
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I’m at the Kennedy Center covering the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Celebrities are about to walk the red carpet. To do so, they’ll have to go past the tarp tower covering the evidence that President Donald Trump’s name has been removed from the center’s exterior.
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
EXCLUSIVE: New photos offer the first public look at the Kennedy Center's facade since crews took down President Trump's name. The images were shot from inside the tarp-covered scaffolding that's hidden the building for nine days. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
But many make their own consolation: by taking selfies with the tarp tower in the background.
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
President Donald Trump's name came off the Kennedy Center in the dead of night Saturday. More than 60 hours later, almost no one has seen it gone. The giant tarp column remains up, and the locals and die-hards trickling in to see the restored signage are leaving disappointed.
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The Kennedy Center’s name sign is still blocked by tarps and surrounded by security guards more than 12 hours after President Donald Trump’s name was removed from the building. Just a handful of journalists and passersby waiting for the tarps to come down.
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The mood had pretty light over the past nine hours — until about 15 minutes ago when the crew brought out tarp. Mood changed immediately with boos and chants of “Shame!”
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Justice Department lawyers representing the Kennedy Center have just filed a motion for a 12-hour extension to remove Trump's name from the building. They said work "has been delayed because of thunderstorms ... presented safety concerns for workers."
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It’s go time — less than an hour until the court-ordered deadline to take President Donald Trump’s name off the building. Crews are almost finished with the scaffolding, but no letters have been touched let alone removed.
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A 14-member crew just started offloading scaffolding after taking an extended break, presumably due to thunderstorms. When the workers started moving, the crowd of about 150 immediately broke out into chants of “Take it down! Take it down!”
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
From about a half hour ago: Workers erected scaffolding on Friday near the Kennedy Center's exterior sign, hours before a deadline to remove President Donald Trump's name. (Alex Wroblewski, AFP/Getty Images)
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Breaking: The Kennedy Center just removed President Donald Trump’s name from its website. Story to come.
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Here's a look at the three-page memo the Kennedy Center sent to employees today ordering they erase President Donald Trump’s name from official materials, less than a week after a federal judge ruled it had been illegally added to the storied arts institution.
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
President Trump takes a victory lap after a review panel approved his pet project: a $400 million White House ballroom building
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, the organization that is suing the administration over the ballroom project, has argued that Trump's assertion on Sunday is correct: the work being done essentially locks into place key aspects of the project, including its size.
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Another update from Abdou:
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