A tarp continued to hang over the scaffolding constructed for workers to remove Trump’s name from the building, making it impossible to immediately detect whether the only words remaining on its white marble portico are “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.”
Somebody posted a live stream of the removal; what was put up with a cherry picker now required full-width scaffolding and a dozen workers and wasn’t finished after 12h. I’m not sure who gave the order to do it that way and who got the contract, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were all staunch MAGAts.
Apparently they were hassling some other judge to delay it for - reasons. Judge said fuck off. But that’s why the delay.
My guess is there was one reason for the scaffolding: so they could hang the tarps to block the view of the letters being taken down. After all there were multiple live streams being broadcast, so they delayed it for 12 hours. They knew if we could get photos of it in progress, the pictures would be everywhere. Now the only photos will be just the wall after it was done.
🔔🔔🔔 Thanks, this hits my conspiracy-theorising tendencies perfectly.
Seriously though, media savvy is about the only thing this admin knows.
It’s possible that the installation just required drilling some holes for anchors or something, which is a pretty quick process that doesn’t need much clean up.
Removing probably means holes need to be filled and the surface needs to be refinished. That takes quite a bit more time.
Don’t get me wrong, I want the orange pedophile gone as much as anyone. There’s just a reasonable explanation for why it’s taking longer and they want to keep it from view.
That assumes they wouldn’t deliberately want it to look like shit and have obvious remnants of Trump’s name afterwards.