Newly released photos appear to confirm that President Donald Trump's name has been removed from the Kennedy Center facade following a court order, ending days of speculation after the performing arts venue concealed the area with scaffolding and tarps.

The images, obtained by activist group Hands Off the Arts and reviewed by The Washington Post, provide the first public glimpse of the facade since workers removed Trump's name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts earlier this month.

The photos surfaced as the president's critics continue asking questions about why scaffolding and giant tarps remain draped across the front of the Kennedy Center more than a week after the removal.

The coverings were first installed as workers carried out a federal court order requiring Trump's name to be taken off the facade.

Since then, Democrats and anti-Trump activists have accused the administration of trying to hide the outcome of the legal battle from public view.

According to The New York Times, critics have speculated that the tarps are preventing the public from viewing the facade after a judge ordered Trump's name removed from the building.

The newly released photographs show two rows of blank square panels where Trump's name had previously appeared on the lower portion of the facade.

"This is the picture the Trump administration does not want anyone to see, so it's all the more important ... that people have an opportunity to witness when they're winning," Mallory Miller, co-founder of Hands Off the Arts, told the Post.

A 14-member construction crew began erecting scaffolding June 12 to comply with a court-ordered deadline requiring the removal of Trump's name.

According to court records, workers missed the deadline and completed the removal around 3 a.m. Saturday.

Attorneys for the Kennedy Center later confirmed in a court filing that the work had been completed.

Despite the removal, the Kennedy Center has kept the scaffolding and tarps in place, while security guards and barricades have prevented the public from viewing the facade for the past nine days.

The Kennedy Center has rejected suggestions that the coverings are intended to hide the facade, with spokeswoman Roma Daravi saying in a statement last week that the tarps and scaffolding "will remain up as crews address maintenance needs of the marble and soffit panels."

The legal battle stems from a lawsuit filed by Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board. The lawsuit ultimately led to the court order requiring Trump's name to be removed.

In a filing Friday, Beatty's attorneys accused Trump and his allies on the Kennedy Center board of "willfully sabotaging Kennedy Center's iconic façade to assuage Defendants' vanity or massage broken egos."

The attorneys also argued that trustees "appear to be actively undermining the restoration of the Kennedy Center's name, in a petty act of defiance."

Democrats on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which oversees the Kennedy Center and other federal properties, weighed in Monday, urging the center to remove what they called "the shame scaffolding."

"Now that the Courts have compelled President Trump to take his name off another man's Memorial," the lawmakers wrote in a post on X, "it's time for a return to normalcy."