Frank Langford

People have been out here in front of the Kennedy Center for many, many hours waiting to see the name Donald J. Trump taken down from the facade.

And right now, it's well past midnight, so it's past the deadline that the court set, and there's a huge piece of scaffolding up there and a lot of workers, but they have yet

to touch any of the letters.

And the crowd is beginning to thin out.

People have gotten very tired, and they've also gotten very frustrated.

Democrats and Republicans, I spoke to agree.

Jimmy Kimmel's jokes are constitutionally protected.

Richard Conkey is a Republican, an electrical contractor in North Beach in Maryland.

He's not a fan of Kimmel's humor.

I don't like it personally.

I don't think he should be doing it.

But, I mean, it is freedom of speech.

Conkey thinks Comey should be prosecuted for what Trump has characterized as a call for violence.

But other Republicans and Democrats I spoke with disagreed.

Donald Long is a Democrat who owns a restaurant in Upper Marlboro.

He says Trump criticizes and threatens others.

I think if he's able to dish it, he has to be able to take it.

Long says the president is the biggest threat to free speech in the country.

Frank Lankford, NPR News, North Beach, Maryland.

William Scharf, chair of the National Capital Planning Commission, said opposition to changing the White House complex is nothing new.