For the last several hours, MSNow has been live-streaming the façade of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as workers prepare to remove Donald J. Trump’s name from the building on the order of a judge last month. It must be removed by midnight Eastern time (9 p.m. Pacific) tonight, following a denied last-minute appeal. (Trump’s name has already been removed from the Kennedy Center website and stationery.)

When I first tuned in (about 2:45 p.m. Pacific time), there were about 27,000 people watching. As I publish this shortly before 9 p.m. Pacific, it’s over 89,000. I suspect it’ll hit 100,000 shortly. The stream has mostly shown construction workers hand-erecting scaffolding. A large crowd has grown around the Center, and as the workers progress, there are sporadic eruptions of applause and cheers (“Take it down!” is a popular refrain). Never before have I seen construction workers celebrated as heroes.

As of this writing, the workers and scaffolding are at the height of Trump’s name. They’re almost at the point where they can start removing the letters in Trump’s name. I anticipate the cheers will grow louder once the first letters come down and become positively deafening when they’re all gone.

I suspect this will be the first of many detrumpifications we see over the next few years.

A nation’s healing begins.