BREAKING: Trump FURIOUS as his SECRET gets revealed

Trump finally got hit with the footage that he was really, REALLY hoping would never see the light of day.That was a sleuth camera angle catching the moment that his name was officially taken off the Kennedy Center, something that Donald Trump hoped to avoid because here's the deal, for those who tuned in yesterday, you probably noticed that more than 8 hours passed as crews erected a massive scaffolding outside of the Kennedy Center, and all the while, I remember thinking, this feels so incredibly unnecessary.Just put a guy in a boom lift, pluck the letters off, and be done with it.It's not that hard.But as the hours passed and day turned into night, it became clear why they were going that route.It's because the scaffolding was going to be covered by a massive tarp to conceal the entire process.

In other words, the entire day was spent erecting scaffolding not to strip the letters, something that, again, 30 minutes in a boom lift could accomplish, it was to conceal the view with a curtain because Trump couldn't handle the optics of the letters of his name being pluggedoff the building.My God.The reality is that Trump's name went up on the Kennedy Center in broad daylight.Slapped it right there for the world to see.Proud, bold, shameless.

But taking it down?Workers unfurled a huge curtain to obscure the actual removal.Because God forbid the American public gets to watch the consequences of a court ruling play out in real time.God forbid there is footage of the name coming down letter by letter.We can't have that because that might look bad for the president.So instead, let's turn this whole thing into a giant all night Broadway production, starring Donald Trump's ego with a supporting role from a tarp.

find them at bryantylercohen .com slash book.Again, I'll never paywall a single piece of content, but this is the one time that I'll ask for some support for a book that I really think meets this moment.Thanks so much.Consider too, until December 19th, the letters on the side of the building said, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.Then, without congressional approval, an upper line of letters was added to say, the Donald J. Trump and.

They did that in one day.The day after the board vote, boom, his name is up on the building.No drama, no scaffolding, no midnight tarp operation, just slapped it right up.But removing it?Well, that requires a weeks -long legal battle, a last -minute court application, a DOJ intervention, a full scaffolding rig, and a curtain the size of a football field.Because apparently, putting your name on things is easy when you've got no shame, but having it ripped off by a federal judge?

That requires a cover -up.Literally.Now, let's talk about these legal maneuvers, because they tell you everything you need to know about this administration's relationship with the law, which is to say, they treat it as a mere suggestion U .S.District Court Judge Christopher Cooper ruled last month that Trump's name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center and ordered it removed by the end of the day on June 12th.So on June 12th, yesterday, Friday, Cooper denied the Trump administration's last minute request for a stay of his injunction pending appeal, meaning the original deadline remained in place.

So the court said no.Fine.Then the Justice Department asked the Court of Appeals for the D .C.Circuit to stay Cooper's ruling and allow the president's name to stay up.But in a one -page order, a panel of appellate judges rejected that request for an immediate stay, denied again.

Two courts both said no.And then, shortly after midnight, the Trump -run Kennedy Center asked the judge to extend the deadline until noon the following day, citing the storms for delaying the work.So, to summarize, Trump's team filed a stay, got denied, filed an emergency appeal, got denied, filed for a midnight extension because of the thunderstorms, and oh, by the way, Cruz started removing it from the front of the building around 3 a .m.Under a tarp, after two denied appeals, after missing the deadline, after months of fighting in court, to keep four words on a building that a federal judge said he had no legal right to put there in the first place.This is a guy who would rather mobilize the Justice Department, the Court of Appeals, and a team of construction workers in the dead of night than simply admit he lost.

And why did he lose?Because as District Court Judge Christopher Cooper wrote on May 29th, Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name and only Congress can change it.Period.The Kennedy Center was established and named via a 1964 law passed by Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, memorializing President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated two months prior.It is a congressional memorial to an assassinatedAnd Trump's handpicked board just decided to add his name to it anyway?

Because why not?Because what's a literal federal law when your ego is on the line?In fact, here's Norm Eisen, who brought the case that led to the removal of Trump's name, reacting to his court win just weeks earlier.

Brian, one of the signature features of the Trump administration like so many other authoritarian regimes around the world, is corruption.And we just won the biggest victory yet in court against Donald Trump's corruption.Summary judgment, a final ruling that his name has to come off the Kennedy Center.He corrupted that institution.And then, as if that weren't enough, it was a one -two punch.The court also preliminarily enjoined the closure of the Kennedy Center and the suspension of programming there until the law is complied with, if it ever can be.

So, major win against Donald Trump.together with all the other victories we've had defending the rule of law, protecting our elections, a biggie against Trump.corruption.

name come off a building in real time because God forbid.That is what vanity governance looks like.Not policy,or leadership or a vision for the country, just an unending, exhausting, all -consuming obsession with the brand of Donald Trump, and an equally unending terror of anything that threatens it.The curtain last night wasn't just covering the Kennedy Center facade, it was covering the fact that a federal court just told the President of the United States that he broke the law, and he still couldn't bring himself to comply with even a modicum of dignity.Strong leaders don't need giant tarps to hide their failures.

Strong leaders don't spend their nights appealing to multiple courts over the letters of their name on a building.Strong leaders don't get to put their name on memorials to murdered presidents in the first place.But this is what we've got.A guy so consumed by the reflection of his own name that he will turn the entire machinery of the federal government into a stage crew just to make sure that nobody gets to have a clean shot of a curtain coming down.This shot, to be clear.Before you go, I'm very excited to announce that I've written a new book titled The Day After How to Wheel Power in a Post Trump World.

The book explores what is, in my opinion, the single most important theme that we're dealing with in politics today and moving forward.powerlook forward to it.