By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Another DC institution is fighting to stop President Donald Trump from permanently planting his name on the front of their building. The US Institute of Peace on Thursday asked a federal appeals court for emergency relief to prevent the administration from carving Trump’…
By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Another DC institution is fighting to stop President Donald Trump from permanently planting his name on the front of their building.The US Institute of Peace and its ousted board members on Thursday asked a federal appeals court for emergency relief to prevent the admini…
The alleged bid to carve Trump’s name onto the U.S. Institute of Peace building comes amid a legal fight over an effort to do the same at the Kennedy Center.
Former board members for the U.S. Institute of Peace asked a federal court on Thursday to block the Trump administration from etching President Trump’s name into the facade of the institute's headquarters in Washington, D.C. In an emergency petition filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
The board members, ousted by the Department of Government Efficiency last year, argued that a permanent engraving would cause harm to an organization they said is independent of the president.
The U.S. Institute of Peace’s former board members filed an emergency motion Thursday to block President Donald Trump’s name from being engraved into the building. The State Department renamed the institution in Washington after Trump in December 2025.
