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. At the time, the president’s name was added to the building’s exterior in removable silver lettering. The Trump administration is now looking to engrave the president’s name into the building’s facade, according to an emergency petition filed by ousted board members in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit this week, which alleged a contractor has already been selected to carve Trump’s name into the Constitution Avenue headquarters.
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