'Dumb': Lawmaker claims terse throwdown with Trump over Kennedy Center

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U.S. Representative Joyce Beatty (D-OH), ex officio member of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees speaks to the media next to lawyers Joshua Kolb and Nathaniel Zelinsky outside the U.S. District Courthouse on the day of a hearing on a new legal challenge that seeks to block U.S. President Donald Trump's name from being inscribed on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 27, 2026.

Matthew Rozsa
September 15, 2026 | 08:10PM ET Push Notification