Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center — Page 13

I suspect that Trump's interest in The Kennedy Center is for its real estate potential. The more he talks about it, the more it sounds like he wants to bulldoze the place and start over so it can be the Trump Center. Perhaps selling off a portion of the site for "private development", like a Trump hotel. Every time I try to convince myself that he can't do that, he does something that reminds me that he has no respect for the law, intrenational treaties, or the Constitution, and no one in D.C. has the testicular fortitude to stand up to him. This man wants to invade Canada and Greenland so he can steal their natural resources. The Kennedy Center is small potatoes.

I doubt that Trump has ever seen Hamilton in its entirety, or any other recent Broadway show, for that matter. His objection to Hamilton is probably because there are not enough waspy people in the cast. I cannot imagine his short list of Kennedy Center honorees, but we can probably look forward to "The Kennedy Center Honors Ted Nugent" at some point.

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ACL2006 said: "His options for honorees for four years are limited. I can't imagine some of the people he wants honored actually accept it."

He will ONLY name people who will say yes. And he can honor ANYONE in the world he wants. That's a limitless cesspool of losers.

GiantsInTheSky2 said: "I’m sure it’s way too late in the game for Les Mis to drop out. Hamilton cancelled their run a year in advance, LM is in less than three months."

Hamilton had a valid reason for dropping out, with Lin hating trump and all that, but as far as i've seen, les mis couldn't really blame it on that so they would just look stupid. also the show isn't extraordinarily inclusive, or "woke"... also i was planning on buying a ticket, so i really hope they dont cancel

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these honorees would also need performers to show up and do their tributes for them. that could see some solid backlash.

kdogg36 said: "GiantsInTheSky2 said: "I’m sure it’s way too late in the game for Les Mis to drop out. Hamilton cancelled their run a year in advance, LM is in less than three months."

It's not. It may be too late in the game for them to drop out without facing financial penalties. But it's not too late for everyone just to decide not to show up, obviously. And frankly that's what's called for.

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If you haven't seen Harvey's recent post on social media, here's one of the reasons why I adore him:

I have been banned from THE KENNEDY CENTER.
A few folks have written to ask how I feel about Trump's takeover of The Kennedy Center. How do you think I feel? The shows I've written are now banned from being performed in our premiere American theater. Those shows, most of which have been performed there in the past, include, KINKY BOOTS. LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, TORCH SONG TRILOGY, HAIRSPRAY, SAFE SEX, CASA VALENTINA, SPOOKHOUSE, A CATERED AFFAIR, THE SISSY DUCKLING, BELLA BELLA and more.
I have been in the struggle for our civil rights for more than 50 years only to watch them snatched away by a man who actually couldn't care less. He does this stuff only to placate the religious right so they'll look the other way as he savages our political system for his own glorification.
He attacks free speech
He attacks the free press.
He attacks America's allies.
His only allegiance is to himself - the golden calf.
My fellow Americans I warn you - this is NOT how it begins.
This is how freedom ENDS!
Trump may have declared "woke" as dead in America.
We must prove him wrong.
WAKE THE HELL UP!!!!!

Sutton Ross said: "Such a shame Mr. Crooks missed."

I so, so wish you were a gay man at this moment.

No surprise. Everything he touches turns to sh*t. He soiled the White House, now the LC. Again, shocking to witness the U.S. sink in real-time.

merle57 said: "Trump met with the Kennedy Center Board, and he mentioned he does not like the choices in the last 10 years, too many leftist liberals. He wants to host the television show himself. He also wants to cancel the contract with CBS and put it up for bid. AND he wants awards to include businessmen and politicians, not just artists.

So he clearly wants to make the awards about him. The only thing he has not proposed yet is changing the name to the Trump Awards."

merle57 said: "Trump met with the Kennedy Center Board, and he mentioned he does not like the choices in the last 10 years, too many leftist liberals. He wants to host the television show himself. He also wants to cancel the contract with CBS and put it up for bid. AND he wants awards to include businessmen and politicians, not just artists.

So he clearly wants to make the awards about him. The only thing he has not proposed yet is changing the name to the Trump Awards."

Gee, I wonder who he has in mind....

Leaked audio of meeting details Trump's suggestions

Kennedy Center Awards will be changed "to push back against the influence on the event from “radical left lunatics.”

Casino Owner/Trump's donor Steve Wynn named as potential honoree, as well as Celine Dion, Sylvester Stallone, Johnny Mathis and Andrea Bocelli. Trump apparently also brouught up notable dead people Luciano Pavarotti, Elvis Presley and Babe Ruth.

Feature "non-woke musicals" like Cats and The Phantom of the Opera

Wants to renovate the Center, blasted the 2019 expansion as "nonsense"

Feature "non-woke musicals" like Cats and The Phantom of the Opera

Could Lloyd-Webber block his shows from being performed there? That would certainly make a statement.

I feel so sorry for the folks working at The Kennedy Center. They don't deserve any of this. It must be incredibly stressful.

All it would take is for one theatrical union (Actors' Equity I'm looking at you) to put them on their Do Not Work list, and they'd be screwed.

Now is the moment for Brooke Shields to step things up.