Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center

[Jordan Catalano]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#1

Posted: 2/7/25 at 4:46pm

Article from THE ATLANTIC. This orange ba$tard.

I bet next season sees a revised SOUND OF MUSIC where the Nazi’s are the heroes. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#2

Posted: 2/7/25 at 5:01pm

Ugh, he’d probably rename it to the Trump Center, just cuz. 

My father (AIDS) My sister (AIDS) My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS) The gays and the straights And the white and the spades

[WldKingdomHM]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#3

Posted: 2/7/25 at 5:08pm

 Elect a clown expect a circus 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#4

Posted: 2/7/25 at 5:08pm

This must be why Deborah Rutter (president of the KenCen) announced her resignation right after the inauguration.

I wonder if Jeffrey Finn (head of musical theatre programming) will follow suit?

[ACL2006]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#5

Posted: 2/7/25 at 5:40pm

Welp, no more Kennedy Center Honors...

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

[mitchern]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#6

Posted: 2/7/25 at 5:52pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Trump-Dismisses-Kennedy-Center-Board-and-Reveals-Plan-to-Make-Himself-Chairman-20250207

and there it is. Is this going to lower the price of eggs?

[BroadwayRox3588]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#7

Posted: 2/7/25 at 6:17pm

We just couldn't elect Kamala. After all, she didn't wave a wand and magically eradicate Covid or end all conflict in Gaza.

(and no, I will never allow anyone who stayed home or voted third party for that reason a second of peace)

[Ricey2]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#8

Posted: 2/7/25 at 6:22pm

STAND BEHIND ME LEGALLY BLONDE!! 

[SingingEachtoEach]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#9

Posted: 2/7/25 at 6:22pm

Good lord, they can't leave us anything, can they.  Have to destroy everything.  We can't even have theater to escape to from this madness.

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#10

Posted: 2/7/25 at 6:28pm

I hope his anus prolapses.

[dramamama611]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#11

Posted: 2/7/25 at 6:37pm

What the actual F?

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[SeanD2]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#12

Posted: 2/7/25 at 6:38pm

Well I imagine this means they’ll be scheduling a production of Evita (his favorite musical) and we might finally see that musical adaptation of The Apprentice the Weisslers announced a long time ago. 

[JSquared2]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#13

Posted: 2/7/25 at 6:44pm

dramamama611 said: "What the actual F?"

The word you’re looking for is F-U-C-K 

MODS delete away. This is the LEAST offensive thing about this thread. 

[Copeman63]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#14

Posted: 2/7/25 at 6:45pm

As a closeted gay kid growing up in the Midwest, the Kennedy Center Honors was a yearly glimpse at Broadway royalty; long before YouTube came along. Every year, I would record the sections featuring Broadway, and would play them over and over. The Kander and Ebb tribute remains my favorite amongst them all.  
 

As with everything Trump has “accomplished” in his presidency, nothing is about making lives better for the people who voted for that. It’s only about giving misery to the people who didn’t vote for him.
 

BUT this is great news for Nicole Scherzinger, if she misses out on the Tony Award; as I’m sure she will be an honorary in this year‘s telecast. Hopefully she doesn’t mind sitting between to Kid Rock and John Voight.

If Lincoln were alive today, do you think he'd be pleased with his tunnel?

[MichelleCraig]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#15

Posted: 2/7/25 at 6:51pm

Every day I think it can’t get any worse…but it does.

[Kad]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#16

Posted: 2/7/25 at 6:53pm

If I were running an arts nonprofit relying on federal grants, I would be preparing for the worst as President Musk and Supreme Leader Trump tighten their grasp.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[SingingEachtoEach]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#17

Posted: 2/7/25 at 6:55pm

Kad said: "If I were running an arts nonprofit relying on federal grants, I would be preparing for the worst as President Musk and Supreme Leader Trump tighten their grasp."

I expect Maoist level stuff.

[blaxx]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#18

Posted: 2/7/25 at 7:08pm

So that season of La Cage, Bent, ReNt, Kinky Boots, The Prom and Hedwig is cancelled? 

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[Call_me_jorge]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#19

Posted: 2/7/25 at 7:13pm

I imagine Laura Osnes will become an artist in residence or some shît at the Kennedy Center

My father (AIDS) My sister (AIDS) My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS) The gays and the straights And the white and the spades

[ggersten]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#20

Posted: 2/7/25 at 7:16pm

Trump will sell the Kennedy Center - he will have to because I doubt there are enough MAGA to fill the place for shows and events that meet his standard.

 

Also, isn't he supposed to busy running the country and cheating at golf so where does he have the time to be the artistic director?

[MCfan2]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#21

Posted: 2/7/25 at 7:19pm

I had an awful feeling something like this was going to happen. :( He and the Kennedy Center pretty much ignored each other in his first term, but this time he's been trying to take over everything in sight, so I was afraid of this.

[blaxx]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#22

Posted: 2/7/25 at 7:21pm

Call_me_jorge said: "I imagine Laura Osnes will become an artist in residence or some shît at the Kennedy Center"

Yes, she can star in Dreamgirls with Chad Kimball and Zachary Levi! 

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[ggersten]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#23

Posted: 2/7/25 at 7:28pm

Jordan Catalano said: "Article from THE ATLANTIC. This orange ba$tard.

I bet next season sees a revised SOUND OF MUSIC where the Nazi’s are the heroes."

It presently is scheduled to open 5 September - if they can find actors to perform in it.

We will see if Parade gets cancelled - 

 

[PipingHotPiccolo]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#24

Posted: 2/7/25 at 7:28pm

disbanding a bipartisan board because you dont like their art and installing yourself as the new chairman is something a silly petty dictator would so, and has now done.

if you didnt enthusiastically vote for kamala (and thats 70% of the country), you voted for this, and its only going to get worse and worse.

[MasterThespian 2]

Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center#25

Posted: 2/7/25 at 7:41pm

Assume this is payback for all the artists and elites who have never taken him seriously. Has never had the class, intelligence or style to fit in.