A judge threw out a Kennedy Center lawsuit against jazz musician Chuck Redd after he canceled a show in protest of Trump's attempt to rename it after himself, according to reports.The Trump-led Kennedy Center sued Redd for breaching his contract, but D.C. Superior Court Judge Tanya Jones Bosier dismissed the lawsuit on Friday, according to reporting by the Washington Post. Richard Grenell, a Trump ally leading the center's board, threatened him with a $1 million demand last year.Jones Bosier ruled that Kennedy Center officials failed to prove they had a legally binding agreement with Redd to perform at the venue's Christmas Eve concert last year, according to the Post."I could not find a valid breach-of-contract claim here," Jones Bosier said, per the Post. "There's no dispute that he did not sign the 2025 agreement."Redd told the Kennedy Center he ditched his scheduled performance due to "the defiant and illegal name change happening to the Kennedy Center," according to the Post. A judge's orders are now undoing that renaming.
The Kennedy Center continued its court-ordered purge of Trump's name by removing his name from the online logo."The Trump Administration has changed the logo of the Kennedy Center's LinkedIn page," Aaron Parnas, an attorney and legal writer, pointed out the change in a post on X. "The new logo no longer includes the President's name."An image of the former logo shows "The Trump Kennedy Center" with a black backdrop. The new logo simply reads "The Kennedy Center" and has a white backdrop.Trump's name is also being removed from the performing arts center's signage as well as its email signatures, letterhead, memos and other corners.
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A judge on Friday tossed out a lawsuit brought by the Kennedy Center against an artist who withdrew from a performance after the organization’s board voted to add President Donald Trump’s name to the venue, The Washington Post reports.The artist, jazz musician Chuck Redd, pulled out over what he called “the defiant and illegal name change happening to the Kennedy Center,” according to the Post.But, as D.C. Superior Court Judge Tanya Jones Bosier found, Kennedy Center officials had not made a legally binding agreement with Redd, and there could be no breach of contract claim as a result. “There’s no dispute that he did not sign the 2025 agreement,” the judge said.In a statement, Redd’s attorney, Lisa Banks, said Redd had been sued “because he publicly and rightly objected to adding Donald Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center, a living memorial to former President John F. Kennedy.”Banks called the lawsuit “political retribution, pure and simple, by the Trump Kennedy Center,” and said that “the Court correctly saw it as such in dismissing the case with prejudice.”According to the Post, after Redd withdrew, then-Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell said in a letter to Redd, “This is your official notice that we will seek $1 million in damages from you for this political stunt.”In December, Redd told the Associated Press, “When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert.”On Thursday, the general counsel for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ordered Trump’s name to “immediately” be removed from the building after a federal judge found adding the president’s name to the Center was unlawful, The New York Times reported.“The memo gave staff members detailed instructions on the materials that needed to be updated, including social media accounts, email signatures and voice mail messages,” the Times reported. “It specified that outdoor and indoor signage with the barred name must be altered by June 12.”Late last month, a federal judge ordered that President Donald Trump could not rename the Kennedy Center, nor could he close it for what the Trump administration said were two years of renovations.“The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so,” the judge wrote, CNBC reported. “Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.”
