Vance got booed at the Kennedy Center

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[DFW]

1. What in the world could be playing at the Kennedy Center that Vance would want to see?

"Springtime for Hilter," maybe?

[fierywoman]

5. If it was today, Shostakovitch Violin Concerto and Stravinksky's Petrushka--

(I wonder if the orchestra booed along with the audience?)

[elleng]

12. Petroushka one of my favorites, as a kid;

had a recording, as I recall, with a father explaining the story to his daughter!

[LudwigPastorius]

13. Petrushka? The story of a Russian puppet?

How uniquely appropriate.

[elleng]

19. TRUE!

3 Russian composers!

[dchill]

22. At least!

[fierywoman]

20. Yup.

[elleng]

2. Good to see! What was playing?

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Shostakovich and Stravinsky, I learned. Had heard they would be on the program.

[Skittles]

3. GOOD

make these smarmy fucks know exactly how unpopular they are

[Blue Owl]

4. He makes a great punching bag

[Skittles]

11. apparently he and his dipshit wife

have made a pact to act like they are having a very enjoyable conversation whenever they encounter BOOs

[elleng]

14. That is RUDE.

She is rather accomplished.

Usha Bala Chilukuri Vance (née Chilukuri; born January 6, 1986) is an American lawyer who has been the second lady of the United States since 2025, being married to Vice President JD Vance. A former trial lawyer, she has also worked with justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. She is the first Indian American and Hindu American in this role.

Vance was born in San Diego County, California, to Telugu Indian immigrant parents and raised in an upper-middle-class suburb. She graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in history and from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor degree. After law school, she served as a law clerk for several senior federal judges, including Chief Justice John Roberts, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and Judge Amul Thapar.

In 2019, Vance was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, and she subsequently worked for a leading law firm handling civil litigation and appeals in cases involving higher education, local government, entertainment, and technology. She resigned from her law firm job in July 2024.

At the 2024 Republican National Convention, Vance delivered the introductory address for her husband, JD Vance. She often traveled with him to his vice-presidential campaign events, occasionally appearing onstage. The couple has three children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usha_Vance

[3Hotdogs]

16. Clerking for Roberts and BeerPong Boy --- that says a lot.

Add to that resume, who she married....

[NJCher]

17. it's so disappointing

when you see a woman like that settle for someone like Vance.

I'll just never understand it.

[Shipwack]

23. Some women like to be adjacent to power...

Just like some men...

[Ocelot II]

26. Meh, some very awful people are accomplished professionally. And she married Vance,

so there must be something wrong with her. It must suck to have to compete with your own upholstery for your icky husband's attentions.

[Trueblue1968]

21. Vance is hated !!!! !!!!!!

[sheshe2]

6. The place is EMPTY!!!

Trump is the kiss of death.

[radical noodle]

7. Probably people who had season tickets before trump ruined it

[sheshe2]

8. Then add insult to injury...

JD shows up.

[radical noodle]

18. It's enough to make an audience cranky

[multigraincracker]

9. Did he raise the tariff, I mean ticket price?

[elleng]

10. I doubt that it would be, was an anticipated concert, I heard.

[DET]

15. Indeed

Never thought that I would see the Kennedy Center desecrated by a fascist regime. It’s like having Hitler show up at a ballet.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. This made me smile

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. JD Vance booed as he arrives at Kennedy Center concert

The reaction toward the vice president comes on the heels of recent steps by the Trump administration to overhaul the national arts institution in D.C.

This is the energy. Goes to a concert? Booed. Goes on vacation? Booed. Takes a shit? Booed. He need not face violence, but neither should find peace.

— Brett Taylor (@brett-taylor.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T13:01:05.561Z

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/13/jd-vance-booed-kennedy-center/

When Vice President JD Vance took his seat Thursday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington, he was met with a chorus of boos from the packed concert hall. Vance and the second lady, Usha Vance, were attending a performance by the National Symphony Orchestra, which was already seated onstage when the crowd spotted the pair and erupted into loud boos and shouts for more than 30 seconds. The vice president waved and appeared to smile.
When Vice President JD Vance took his seat Thursday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington, he was met with a chorus of boos from the packed concert hall. Vance and the second lady, Usha Vance, were attending a performance by the National Symphony Orchestra, which was already seated onstage when the crowd spotted the pair and erupted into loud boos and shouts for more than 30 seconds. The vice president waved and appeared to smile.

President Donald Trump has been trying to overhaul the institution, appointing a board of trustees that elected him as chair, setting the arts community on edge. Usha Vance, one of Trump’s board members, previously served on the board of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

A number of shows at the Kennedy Center, including the hit musical “Hamilton” and an appearance by actress, comedian and television producer Issa Rae, have been canceled since Trump’s unprecedented move, many in protest. Rae, in a statement, cited “an infringement on the values of an institution that has faithfully celebrated artists of all backgrounds through all mediums.”
A number of shows at the Kennedy Center, including the hit musical “Hamilton” and an appearance by actress, comedian and television producer Issa Rae, have been canceled since Trump’s unprecedented move, many in protest. Rae, in a statement, cited “an infringement on the values of an institution that has faithfully celebrated artists of all backgrounds through all mediums.”

Thursday’s concert started 30 minutes late, after attendees waited in a long security line that packed the grand foyer ahead of the vice president’s arrival.

[mackdaddy]

27. I hope his eyeliner did not run.

Maybe he should complain to the Chairman of the Kennedy center?

[TommieMommy]

28. Hahaha hahaha

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. Compare and contrast how VP Harris was treated at the Kennedy Center to how Vance was treated

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[William769]

30. What a dick, waving like that.