{"id":243240,"date":"2026-05-30T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/maria-shriver-calls-kennedy-center-court-decision-to-remove-donald-trumps-name-a-great-birthday-gift-for-jfk\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:16:00","slug":"maria-shriver-calls-kennedy-center-court-decision-to-remove-donald-trumps-name-a-great-birthday-gift-for-jfk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/maria-shriver-calls-kennedy-center-court-decision-to-remove-donald-trumps-name-a-great-birthday-gift-for-jfk\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Shriver Calls Kennedy Center Court Decision to Remove Donald Trump&#8217;s Name a &#8216;Great Birthday Gift&#8217; for JFK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2221048\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/maria-shriver\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Maria Shriver<\/strong><\/a> is celebrating what she calls \u201ca great birthday gift\u201d to her late uncle, President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/john-f-kennedy\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">John F. Kennedy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday (May 29), which would have marked <strong>JFK<\/strong>\u2018s 109th birthday, <strong>Maria<\/strong> reacted to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/29\/judge-orders-trump-to-remove-his-name-from-john-f-kennedy-center-for-the-performing-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal court ruling involving the Kennedy Center<\/a> and President <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge <strong>Christopher Cooper<\/strong> ruled that <strong>Trump<\/strong>\u2018s name has to be removed from the Kennedy Center and halted the planned renovation plans that would have closed it down for two years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maria<\/strong>, who is the daughter of <strong>JFK<\/strong>\u2018s younger sister, <strong>Eunice Kennedy Shriver<\/strong>, shared her thoughts in a post on X following the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn appropriate birthday present on my uncle\u2019s birthday today,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cA federal judge ruled that President <strong>Trump <\/strong>and the Kennedy Center Board acted unlawfully in renaming the Kennedy Center. The judge held that only Congress can change the Center\u2019s name and blocked the planned two-year closure. I know they\u2019ll probably appeal and the story isn\u2019t over, but for today let\u2019s celebrate a great birthday gift.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Cooper<\/strong>, a judge who was appointed by former President<strong> Barack Obama<\/strong>, issued a 94-page ruling finding actions taken by the Kennedy Center\u2019s board of trustees violated the law governing the institution. The ruling reportedly ordered <strong>Trump<\/strong>\u2018s name to be removed within 14 days and blocked renovation plans that would have resulted in a two-year closure.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"iframe-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An appropriate birthday present on my uncle&#8217;s birthday today. A federal judge ruled that President Trump and the Kennedy Center Board acted unlawfully in renaming the Kennedy Center. The judge held that only Congress can change the Center&#8217;s name and blocked the planned two-year\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1FpFsj7qhd\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/1FpFsj7qhd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maria Shriver (@mariashriver) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mariashriver\/status\/2060439869118407129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">May 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>You can read the full decision\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972\/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972.50.0_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many artists have also pulled out of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/29\/bret-michaels-pulls-out-of-freedom-250-trump-backed-shows-becoming-fifth-artist-to-do-so\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Trump<\/strong>\u2018s \u201cFreedom 250\u201d concert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/maria-shriver\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Shriver<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/politics\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/30\/maria-shriver-calls-kennedy-center-court-decision-to-remove-donald-trumps-name-a-great-birthday-gift-for-jfk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Getty Images Maria Shriver is celebrating what she calls \u201ca great birthday gift\u201d to her late uncle, President John F. Kennedy. On Friday (May 29), which would have marked JFK\u2018s 109th birthday, Maria reacted to a federal court ruling involving the Kennedy Center and President Donald Trump. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}