Trump turns a Kennedy Center loss into a court-system meltdown

Washington’s strangest stage fight just got a legal review. A federal judge said Trump’s name has to come off the Kennedy Center and blocked his plan to shut it for a two-year renovation — so Trump answered by calling the courts rigged and pulling his tariff losses into the same grievance monologue. That is the performance now: not opera, not policy, but a president treating every adverse ruling like the orchestra missed his entrance. The Kennedy Center was built for drama; it probably did not expect the loudest act to be a one-star review of the judiciary.