Kennedy Center struggling as cancellations over Trump involvement ongoing

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Source: msn


Story by Ewan Gleadow • 5h •

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The president's name was added to the building after the Kennedy Center board were dismissed and then replaced by a Trump-friendly team.............

But there has been pushback from both productions who have cancelled their shows and audiences who say they refuse to attend events at the venue. A venue insider, speaking to The Guardian's Charlotte Higgins, says the atmosphere post-name change is very negative.

They 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,............


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.'”...................

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kennedy-center-struggling-as-cancellations-over-trump-involvement-ongoing/ar-AA1UuMMB?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=15c0258be3334de0a5c8845e04296a2a&ei=15

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I love the idea of stuffing the torn up Art center brochures and sending them back.


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FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures while he poses for a picture at the presidential box at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 17, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo © provided by RawStory

[Ocelot II]

1. EverythingTrump Touches Dies.

[beveeheart]

9. My first thought too.

[surfered]

2. Coming events

[MarineCombatEngineer]

3. That's probably not far from the truth,

it's what the Trumpedo MAGAt's are yearning for.

[SeattleVet]

13. WHAT!?!?!? No Kid Rock????? What a travesty!

[twodogsbarking]

4. I once wrote that he would bankrupt the place. Eat my shorts Nastradamus.

[NCDem47]

7. Close it down under the guise of "no one comes anymore"

Tear it down or repurpose it.

[AverageOldGuy]

5. We will never even enter the grounds until Trump's name is gone

We will never even enter the grounds until Trump's name is gone and every one he appointed to the Board is gone.

We aren't big time Kennedy Center folks -- average three events a year but now it's ZERO until Trump is gone.

[Lonestarblue]

6. My fear us that the losses will cause Trump to decide to demolish the Kennedy Center.

He would live to build some gaudy mammoth edifice as a tribute to his pathetic perception of his greatness.

[oberle]

8. As a frequent Kennedy Center goer

this just makes me sick. It is a beautiful building and should not be torn down. After the Tangerine Toddler leaves, it will be put back together and the audiences will return en masse. The problem is what will happen to the National Symphony in the meantime? The Opera company will be at Lisner Auditorium for the next performance of Tremonisha.

[generalbetrayus]

15. I grew up in D.C., but haven't lived there in 50 years now. In elementary school, I used to go on field trips

to see the National Symphony perform at Constitution Hall. Is it no longer there or too small?

[Bayard]

10. Renamed, The trump Golden Pro Wrestling Center

[BidenRocks]

11. Pull JFK off the building.

It is after all, only a building. Let it rot. Another chump blight!
Meanwhile, build a new JFK PAC.
Chumps stench has defiled the historic center.

Garnish his bank accounts to repair all the damage!
Renters have to pay, chump is a renter.
He damaged and destroyed government property!

[mountain grammy]

12. Sickening

From the article..[. They 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 cancelled “

How all of America feels right now.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Can't Trump fill the seats with ICE agents?

Pull up in busses, march in, voila, instant audience!

[Puppyjive]

16. The only difference between Trump and Hitler

Hitler's people worshipped him. Americans hate Trump.

[BidenRocks]

17. Is the spelling!

[tonekat]

18. Just mothball it for the duration. N/T