Trump said he'd make Kennedy Center "hot" again. Instead ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kennedy-center-ticket-sales-have-plummeted-since-trump-takeover/ar-AA1PyzfG


After President Donald Trump took over the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in February, he and the executive he put in charge repeatedly accused the institution’s former leadership of not doing the very thing they are responsible for: selling tickets.


“We had spent way too much on programming that doesn’t bring in any revenue,” Richard Grenell, a Trump ally and former ambassador to Germany, told the Washington Reporter, a conservative media outlet, in late March. According to Grenell, the center hadn’t been making money. It was too woke and niche. The new team was, in Trump’s words, going to make it “hot” again.


Nearly nine months after Trump became chair of the center and more than a month into its main season, ticket sales for the Kennedy Center’s three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been in years, according to a Washington Post analysis of ticketing data from dozens of recent shows as well as past seasons. Tens of thousands of seats have been left empty.

Since early September, 43 percent of tickets remained unsold for the typical production. That means that, at most, 57 percent of tickets were sold for the typical production — and some tickets may have been “comps,” which are given away, often to staff members or the press. That compares with 93 percent sold or comped in fall 2024 and 80 percent in fall 2023.

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During the concert, which one of this article’s reporters attended, the ushers repeatedly encouraged audience members to move up to more expensive seats, as much of the orchestra section was empty. The top two tiers, which were originally available for purchase, were closed several days before the three-performance run because of low ticket sales

[Stacey Grove]

1. Chachi, Lee Greenwood, Kid Rock, and Ted "poopy pants" Nugent?

Yeah, right.

[Dave Bowman]

15. That would be an interesting, although ridiculous, lineup.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

41. Wah, wah, wah!

“Everything TSF touches turns to shit” is once again proven true.

[ms liberty]

19. They may be popular with magats out at their rallies, but

Those people are not the ones who buy tickets to the Kennedy Center, unless their old people tour group booked it as one of their activities on their DC trip.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. The TRUMP brand stinks.

Everything this man touches, DIES!

East Wing of the White House perhaps?

[peacebuzzard]

7. yes it does and it has infected this once great nation.

I work with a lot of people and have many people around me all the time unless I am home.
And it seems like everyone, I mean everyone in this nation is on edge.

[Norbert]

3. Should I be the first

Everything trump touches, dies.

[peacebuzzard]

6. I was going to say the same Norbert

[Jerry2144]

17. He's the anti-Midas. A Sadim

Everything he touches turns to sh1t. Including our country

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Remove the culture and plug it with bling

What do you expect?

[Lovie777]

5. And want to reconstruct it into a golden monstrosity...............

[Diamond_Dog]

8. I don't know who would pay to see the MAGA approved shows he wants to have there.

I can just picture the cobwebs inside.

[Dave Bowman]

18. Maybe they could play Springtime for Hitler?

[Deep State Witch]

9. My Aunt Canceled Her Tickets

She belonged to the National Symphony series and the Broadway series for many years. She canceled her tickets as soon as Taco Tits took it over. She's not the only one.

[peacebuzzard]

12. good, I hope no one goes.

the audience will be sparse.

[underpants]

14. 🤣🤣🤣

Taco Tits

[Dave Bowman]

20. Hats off to your aunt. 👍

[peacebuzzard]

10. It seems like his weirdness has contagiously spread

the man is a (Biden said it better) SF. He is a parasite and he is rottten through and through with dementia nonetheless.
Why can't our elected people see this and do something
Why is there not a grand chorus screaming how he has to go?
Oh I forgot....follow the money.
We are so screwed.
(rant off)

[Blues Heron]

11. Demolished in 3-2-1.....

[tanyev]

13. Hot....

Not.

[sop]

16. Trump couldn't even make gambling casinos "hot."

[Dave Bowman]

21. Yeah, it takes a special kind of loser to bankrupt casinos.

[allegorical oracle]

22. Dump's problem is that his notion of "hot" is not. He has the mental depth of

water in a saucer.

[milestogo]

23. Is he going to set it on fire?

[usedtobedemgurl]

48. Nope, they will use it to do nuclear tests on!

[Buns_of_Fire]

24. The "Dancing with Donald" one-man show wasn't as much of a draw as they thought.

Especially after it was announced that no one would be seated who brought rotten produce with them to the show.

[allegorical oracle]

40. LOL. Especially tomatoes. "They can hurt you!" he once exclaimed. nt

[tblue37]

25. ETTD

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. Everything trump touches dies

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[mdbl]

27. The Kennedy Center's legacy is dead

destroyed by morons.

[SalamanderSleeps]

31. Just 1 Moron.

[mdbl]

50. No, morons.

Starting with the SCROTUS giving immunity to dopey, add the do-nothing GOP Congress who let him run wild like a little brat in a candy store, and round it out with all those that voted for this mess last November. People need to quit just blaming Dump. He's never been any better than he is right now. He was like this 15 years ago.

[IronLionZion]

28. Just wait until they install the stripper poles and host Kid Rock

Maybe Kash Patel's country singer girlfriend will host a concert there.

[MIButterfly]

29. Or Lara Trump.

Isn't she trying to get some kind of music career going?

[COL Mustard]

30. ETTD

Every. Fucking. Thing. Dies.

[Aristus]

32. Get some tractor pulls and WWF in there.

The rubes and the rednecks will come scurrying out of their trailers and their tar-paper shacks for those. If they have any money, that is.

[D_Master81]

33. Everything Trump Touches Dies

Is anyone surprised?

[AverageOldGuy]

34. Trump's long range plan

Make Kennedy Center go broke. He’s good at bankruptcies.

Buy it, tear it down. He does this very well.

Build a Trump Tower.

[Crowman2009]

35. More like hot garbage.

[kimbutgar]

36. Wait until he changes it to his name !

[generalbetrayus]

37. Mr. McMahon and his wife will buy it, rename it the Trump WWE Arena, and he and Orange Julius Caesar will wrestle

nightly as the main event.

[ECL213]

38. This asshole ruins everything he touches.

[Johonny]

39. Monster truck, monster truck, monster trucks

The only way to miss it to be dead or in jail and if your in jail break out!

[Blue Owl]

42. Add it to his list of failures

[Ruby the Liberal]

43. I wondered where Ric Grinell ended up in this clown show

Who needs experience? Call central casting and find a MAGA approved gay guy to run the shows.

How very on brand.

[Warpy]

44. Tickets were always too pricey when I lived there

I did go to some wonderful concerts at Wolf Trap Farm, sat on the lawn where it was really cheap but still an intimate enough venue that I could see the performers. Got rained on every damn time.

I have a feeling Kennedy Center will be closed by the time Fatso and his crew are just a stink we're trying to air out. It's just not profitable, there will be more glitz and glam at the Epstein Ballroom (where they can make sure only Republicans can be admitted), and it's named for a dead Democrat.

(Just looked at Wolf Trap's list this year, you can tell the Republicans are in power, lots of C&W acts)

[republianmushroom]

45. trump lies, often.

[Totally Tunsie]

46. Donald trump is the original casino "cooler".

Anything and everything he's involved with is going to tank sooner or later.

[Martin68]

47. Trump has the negative Midas effect. Everything he touches turns to shit.

[SeattleVet]

49. He'll declare it unneeded since nobody goes there anymore...

and gut the place, turning it into yet another tRumpian nightmare of design.

[Beartracks]

51. Like it wasn't already hot. This sounds familiar, like...

... when Trump said he'd make America great again.

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

52. The Kennedy Center is still the Kennedy Center