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Miles Archer

(21,969 posts)
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 05:11 AM Monday

The "KENNEDY CENTER" solution is simple. Let Grampy stick to his "ballroom" and CALL IT THE F*CKING "KENNEDY" CENTER.

Kennedy Center like a 'funeral parlor' as Trump protests continue: insider

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kennedy-center-2674907281/

( A venue insider, speaking to The Guardian's Charlotte Higgins ) said it was like a "funeral parlor - there's a deathly pall over the place". An annual concert which is performed on Martin Luther King Day has been scrapped, while the Washington National Opera confirmed this month they would leave the Kennedy Center. They had used the arts center as their base of performance since 1971, but are now looking for alternative accommodation.

Part of the problem, Higgins suggested, is the new chair of the organization, Richard Grenell. She wrote, "This former ambassador to Germany might have wished for better things; at any rate, entirely inexperienced in the arts, he seems utterly out of his depth. Things have unravelled. Artists have departed the centre in droves. Hamilton pulled out. So have audiences."

Some audience members made their reason for protest clear, with Washington National Opera director Francesca Zambello sharing some loyal customers had returned shredded brochures to the venue.

Higgins wrote, "Every day, Zambello was receiving messages of protest from formerly loyal members of the audience: shredded season brochures stuffed into an envelope and returned; missives saying, among other things, 'I’m never setting foot in there until the ‘orange menace’ is gone.'”

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