BREAKING: Team Trump is 30 minutes from federal Contempt of Court—no letters have been removed. What may happen soon: work stops for the night; *all* letters are taken off the building; the Trustees announce it’s shuttering forever. But clearly his name won’t be gone by midnight.
The letters were put up with scissor lifts in 2-3 hours—and were supposed to be removed that way. To show his contempt for the federal judiciary, Trump instead used old-school scaffolding, which is now in its *twelfth hour* of being put up (meals and weather only cost 3-4 hours).
Other options for Trump to give the federal judiciary and the 100K+ Americans now watching this long con live the middle finger: put up a tarp so no one can see what’s happening behind it; remove the THE (to say the job was started pre-midnight) then leave; other such silly acts.
There’s no precedent for this level of contempt for America, so let’s try an analogy—how many MAGAs with AR-15s would be on-scene if it were President Obama in contempt of a federal order to remove the words BARACK H. OBAMA from the facade of Ronald Reagan’s Presidential Library?
When Trump wants to do something illegal to a building, like tearing down the East Wing or putting his name on the Kennedy Center, it’s done with BLINDING speed. What happened today wasn’t just a joke—it was a statement of hatred for America and the whole federal judicial branch.
UPDATE: With six minutes left until Trump is in federal Contempt of Court...
...all work has stopped.
I spent all day getting yelled at for saying—as a Trump biographer—that there’s no way his name comes down today. I watched people credit corporate media reports insisting it would come down. I demurred; I got yelled at. When will America GET what they’ve been told about this man?
(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump in Federal Contempt of Court, Removes NOT A SINGLE LETTER OF HIS NAME From the Kennedy Center As Per Explicit Federal Court Order
The question now is how angry and ugly and unruly this crowd gets when it realizes that it was conned... all day.
Presumably people will start dispersing soon, having hopefully learned a hard lesson about what this country is now.
(I wonder if anyone there even realizes that the team that actually removes the letters is almost certainly *not even on-site right now*.)
(🚨) BREAKING: Name Will Not Come Down Because Trump Agents Have Come Up With Some Last-Second Obvious Bullshit That in No Way Explains Why They Failed to Use Scissor Lifts to Do This Work in 2-3 Hours at Any Point During the 24 Hours of Friday
Okay, going to finish this thread now. It all went down as predicted. Hopefully anyone reading this who still needed a lesson in how much Donald Trump hates you and America—and ANYONE who thought this would happen today clearly NEEDS that lesson—has now gotten that clear message.
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