Kennedy Center will remove outdoor 'Blue' sculpture
The Kennedy Center began removing “Blue,” a sculpture on its grounds, on Wednesday morning with no prior announcement.
You mean the last sculpture that world renowned post-minimalist sculptor Joel Shapiro ever created and installed before he passed away? Tearing it down is like destroying what the Kennedy Center stands for, Joel's work is supposed to be metaphors for thought, what does tearing it down stand for?
He’s probably going to demo the place, like he did to the East Wing
They also chopped down the willow trees. WTF??? 🤬
SCOTUS pretty much green-lighted it the other day. He can do whatever he feels like. When do we hit the streets?
False! The Kennedy Center is not doing this. Trump is removing the sculpture. Accuracy counts in journalism. Fix the headline.
And it continues. Now public art disappears without explanation. Philip Glass spoke out. Bernstein’s family spoke out. Where are today’s musicians, conductors and board members? Cultural institutions are held in trust for society. Silence while they are politically reshaped is not neutrality.
In short, fuck those fucks.
Herr Drumpf has already said he’s going to tear down the Kennedy Center because he can’t have his name on a memorial for an assassinated president. He’s jealous someone feared JFK enough to kill him, but he has to fake his own assassination attempts? Really? That’s just weird!
Who are the construction companies who are just doing whatever Trump asks them to do??
They are removing everything from around the Kennedy Center in preparation for demolition, guaranteed
Anything they can do to “own the libs.” The Kennedy Center belongs to the people—and more specifically the people of the DMV who have loved-and-supported it for years. We WILL have it back no matter what these people do.
Fuck these fucking assholes THAT DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU DICKBAG I hope the devil ratfucks him for eternity
He's just going to demolish the place, obviously
The blue sculpture at the Kennedy Center is coming down because it’s not literal or cheesy enough for Donald to get. If it were a Thomas Kinkade of Mickey & Minnie Mouse rowing an adorable boat past Cinderella’s castle festooned with lilacs, it would have stayed—if not stolen for the White House.
He’s gonna demolish the entire building and he’s removing ‘obstacles’ to make way for demolition equipment. Vile POS.
He's seriously preparing to tear down the Kennedy Center, isn't he?
He also had all the weeping willows cut down. He kills everything he touches.
It's blue. Reason enough. Tress and sculptures removed. Clearing the way to demolish the Kennedy Centre. He's already erased the Kennedys from the East Wing and the Rose Garden. He intends to eradicate them from American life because the Kennedy family snubbed him.
Mother fucking evil prick! I cannot fucking wait until that mother fucker is dead as fuck and we NEVER EVER have to look at that mother fucking grotesque fat classless ugly as fuck cancerous toxic evil bitch whose rectum for a mouth spews poison everywhere!
He has to be stopped.
Because it's Blue. There's literally no other answer.
Petty, petty Donnie. Kennedy was a real president and no matter how you try to tear down his legacy because of your jealousy and inability to respect authority, he will always be better than you !!
Trump’s Kennedy Center just removed “Blue,” Joel Shapiro’s 24-foot sculpture celebrating “action, risk, performance and energy.” The center called the unannounced removal “common practice.” Apparently possibility was not on the renovation plan.
Since his name had to be removed from the Kennedy Center, he’s throwing a tantrum by destroying more of this sacred memorial.
While they work on stripping us of our right to vote, and the corrupt scouts allows him to break and ignore laws, I don’t have enough outrage for this today.
His legacy? The great destroyer …
I’m so sick of these a$$wipes
WHEN WILL THIS NIGHTMARE END???
Not his / their's to even fuck with.... Yet another unfathomable and unforgivable.....
Trump removing Kennedy Center JFK memorial weeping willows was the act of a spiteful spoiled child pitching a hissy fit because he cannot put his name on Kennedy Center Trump is destroying the Kennedy Center piece by piece. Even removing “Blue” structure today #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
‘Sculpture’- Not Structure. I hate spell check sometimes
That is exactly what he is doing. He is going to tear it down just yo spite the Kennedy family and the AmeriKKKan People. What a petty little little fuck he is. Toddler didn’t get his way do he is having a toxic tantrum. Fuck him. Please God!
He’s going to bulldoze it, watch.
Don’t be surprised if he turns the sculpture into a swastika.
He’s despicable, but let’s make sure we are being accurate about his atrocities. www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
Trump is destroying the U.S. piece by piece, for Putin's sake.
Kennedy Center Will Remove Outdoor ‘Blue’ Sculpture www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/a... Degenerate Art Redux
Is there nothing he WON'T destroy?
Because it’s not a statue of him.
He just cut down the trees along the river next to the Kennedy Center. Now the statue. You guys, he's going east wing surprise demolition on the Kennedy Center. Who can sue or get a restriction or restraining order???
He also cut down the willow trees outside the Kennedy Center. If he tries to knock the place down, I will be down there in a heartbeat.
Of course Joel Shapiro's iconic sculpture "Blue” must be removed to make way for “President Donald J. Trump Plaza!” I can only imagine the gaudy art which will replace it! 🙄
Makes no sense. That was a new installation during his first term. Is this the equivalent of sending us an ear in the ransom note?
Trump has removed the "Blue" statue from the Kennedy Center lawn, which was installed in 2018. The artist, Joel Shapiro, died in 2025. Removing it as a political statement, just ahead of the Midterm Elections, to stop the promotion of Democrats and blue, is peak Trump energy.
Trump is committing vandalism upon anything and everything he can while congress and SCOTUS permit him to do it.
My GOD‼️...Every damn day, Dumpster POS & His Nazi Klan show how Disgustingly Abhorrent, Stupid, Weak & FUGLY UGLY they are‼️...Their Childish, immature games are just SICK & STUPID‼️...When we REMOVE this Nazi Regime from our Government, EVERY Damn Dump artifact will be REMOVED PERMANENTLY‼️
Removed to where??? Really hoping it ends up at an appreciated space like a sculpture garden.
When will this madness end 🤔🤬 Kennedy Center removing landmark $250M sculpture from grounds ― The 24’ aluminum sculpture, named “Blue,” was gifted to the center by American creator Joel Shapiro in 2019 and depicts a human stick figure “poised in mid-kick.” thehill.com/blogs/in-the... #PINKS
May the decrepit PedoFelon and it’s invalid invertebrates be publicly kicked, humiliated & mocked. Magic, creativity, truth & hope will have the final word 💙
if he can’t bulldoze it he’ll dismantle it piece by piece, the weeping willows planted to represent a country’s grief were all removed today, never ever believe he respects JFK he wants to destroy his legacy & what he can’t destroy take it over, destroying the Rose Garden & East Wing slam Jackie
If they can remove this statue, then they're more than capable of removing Trump from office.
Never. SCOTUS is letting him build his bunker. He’s never leaving.
Like a little kid if they can't have something, will break it.
I cant wait till that day...feel like he's been making me mad for a decade. Oh wait! HE HAS!!!
“Blue,” the 24-foot-tall blue aluminum sculpture by the late American sculptor Joel Shapiro is being dismantled. The work is about “action and risk and performance and energy.” It is a celebration of possibility. So, of course, according to this administration, it has to go.
Plus it’s blue which is probably is all Trump knows about it
Just The Blue in title was to much for the pea brained fascists
I’m sure he has plans to replace it with gold plated “classical” statues…
Well, it wouldn’t work out for a sculpture titled “Blue” to be covered in gold gild, would it?
This is vandalism. Joel Shapiro is a bizarre choice for culture warring over.
It was Blue. If we had painted it red, added some gold at the top- it would still be standing.
He’s erasing everything America and replacing it with Trump.
I imagine it will be heading to the landfill, just as all of the heritage of the East Wing did. No preservation, no accountability.
Slightly related, I was puzzled as to why bumpers were added to this Shapiro public sculpture in Tokyo, but concluded that it was out of fear that passersby could be injured by it.
Yesterday the "Weeping Willow Trees " Today...the big "BLUE STATUE" John F. Kennedy Center What next ? Wrecking Ball ? This is really disgusting
Meanwhile, the #GOP #Congress is jerking off to who knows what latest depravity.
What company went along with this?
It's trump's home. If he cant own the WH he will destroy it. It's happening now. Hasn't anyone realized yet, the serious extent of his malignant narcissim ? A socipathic narcissist that is capable of nuking America for simply getting bad ratings. 👎
“Big blue statue is being removed from the Kennedy Center!” – “Temporary Closures of Certain Parkland and Public Use Limitations, Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway” - Protect the Blue Rooster at all costs!! www.popville.com/2026/09/big-...
We’re just going to wake up one morning to find that he had torn down the Kennedy Center overnight.
I know they’re doing far worse but this feels like another little line towards a big one.
The Trump admin is dismantling a big statue at the Kennedy Center. Why? Unclear!
They're going to demolish the Kennedy Centre.
We realize that he's going to knock the whole thing down, right? Right!? This is the part of the narcissist's playbook where they just go scorched-earth because things didn't go their way. Much like why he'll nuke Iran, I reckon.
It's going to be East-Winged...😞
First the trees and now the exterior sculptures. Clearing the site for the demolition of the Kennedy Centre IMO.
He's killing DC by a thousand little cuts. Blue (the name of the statue pictured) is joyous, and visible to many on their daily commutes. It was put up in 2019 with the opening of the Kennedy Center REACH ("a living theater"). Taking it down - for no stated reason - is just an act of spite.
"If I can't have it, nobody else can" is totally the solemn reaction of an adult male in the prime of his wisdom