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The \u201cTrump\u201d name is crucial to the Kennedy Center\u2019s ability to raise money, the government told a federal appeals court this week, asking the judges to keep President Trump\u2019s name on the building while legal challenges play out.<\/p>\n

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Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate said that without Mr. Trump, the storied performing arts venue would face \u201cfinancial ruin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wealthy benefactors would no longer be willing to pony up for refurbishments for the building and Congress might be less willing to approve additional funding, Mr. Shumate suggested. Hundreds of millions of dollars in already-given gifts would have to be returned, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany donors and companies, who have given, or will be giving, millions of dollars to the center were only willing to do so with the name \u2018Trump\u2019 on the building,\u201d Mr. Shumate said in a brief filed Monday. \u201cNo one else other than President Trump would be in the position of both rebuilding the building, and raising the money for its operation. President Trump raised $258 million from Congress and hundreds of millions more in pledges and donations from patriotic private donors to rebuild and restore the Center.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Shumate\u2019s brief was effusive with praise for Mr. Trump, often adopting the president\u2019s curious habit of capitalizing random words and echoing the president\u2019s own praise for himself.<\/p>\n

The brief mentions Mr. Trump\u2019s \u201cunparalleled construction talents\u201d and \u201ctremendous construction abilities\u201d and says his plans would make the center \u201cthe crown jewel of Washington, D.C. and the envy of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also adopts Mr. Trump\u2019s apocalyptic predictions about the fate of the center, saying the center \u201cwould go into financial and structural collapse\u201d if he does not get his way.<\/p>\n

A federal judge ruled this summer that the center\u2019s board, largely stocked with Trump loyalists, broke federal law when it voted to add Mr. Trump\u2019s name, creating the \u201cDonald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That ruling ordered the Trump name be stripped from the building.<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice has appealed that ruling to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and has asked that Mr. Trump\u2019s name remain in place while the appeal develops.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump had sought to shut down the center for renovations starting on July 4. He envisioned a two-year closure.<\/p>\n

The federal judge put those plans on ice, saying repairs can take place but the Kennedy Center can\u2019t shut down unless it comes up with a more well-considered plan that balances construction needs with performance schedules.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was brought by Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat who serves as an ex officio member of the center\u2019s board. She argued that the law establishing the center declares that only Kennedy\u2019s name be used.<\/p>\n

The federal judge agreed.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s team argued that Ms. Beatty didn\u2019t have legal standing to sue and said the law doesn\u2019t preclude adding Mr. Trump\u2019s name, as long as the Kennedy name also remains.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department also said that while the law forbids other names as memorials, that doesn\u2019t apply to the building name.<\/p>\n

\u201cIncluding President Trump\u2019s name is not a memorial, it is a recognition of his contributions to the center,\u201d the government argued.<\/p>\n

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