Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center- Page 22

[Alexander_Nevermind]

Posted: 8/26/25 at 9:38pm

They’re overwhelmingly white and tend to have a certain kind of look. Close cropped haircuts. Windowpane suits. Golf shorts.

So gross.

You can either party with the gays on Fire Island, or you can cut funding for AIDS programs, but you can’t do both.

^ ^ THAT part! 

[EvanstonDad]

Posted: 8/27/25 at 10:16am

Evanston is outside of Chicago, but other than that you’re right.

LOL, I live a block and half north of Rogers Park.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 8/27/25 at 3:24pm

Kdogg, you are smarter than this. The troll you are talking to spent 6 weeks in the MHE thread saying the same thing over a thousand times. Literally. Now that that thread is just him and Seb discussing the best Whites Only bars in the South, he has come here to defend his bestie, the Rotted Pumpkin Pedophile (watch he will pretend not to know that), and simply harass people. MAGAts are interesting because they get no attention in their real lives, so they are desperate to talk to people online. Except they aren't intelligent enough to ever engage in meaningful conversations. They just attack you which is their only move, turn it around, and just keep repeating "AD HOMINEM" over and over. 

Now, they don't have real schools in Texas but at Goose Step Academy for Angry White Boys (where Boris attended), this is what they teach you. That white people are under attack in this country and to never trust anyone darker than Greg Abbott. No wonder why none of them get laid.

Don't engage, you're too smart. Love you. Mean it.

Updated On: 8/27/25 at 03:24 PM

[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 8/27/25 at 3:26pm

You could teach courses in ad hominem. 

[John Adams]

Posted: 8/27/25 at 4:26pm

MezzA101 said: "Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government"

It will not surprise me if (or when) Trump delivers derogatory statements about the Transgender community in the very near future.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 8/27/25 at 4:29pm

Oh now that we know the identity of the monster in Minnesota who killed two, he will start attacking the entire community later today.

Updated On: 8/27/25 at 04:29 PM

[John Adams]

Posted: 8/27/25 at 4:35pm

Sutton Ross said: "Oh now that we know the identity of the monster in Minnesota who killed two, he will start attacking the entire community later today."

I still am open to the possibility of anyone in his Administration advising him against opening his very uneducated mouth, but should "Trump be Trump", I will not be taken by surprise.

[MezzA101]

Posted: 9/10/25 at 4:27am

Kennedy Center Ticket Sales Plummet as "MAGA Former Dancer" Takes Over Dance Program

https://consequence.net/2025/09/maga-dancer-takes-over-kennedy-center-program-ticket-sales-plummet/

[MezzA101]

Posted: 9/10/25 at 10:09am

Why San Francisco Ballet should refuse to dance at the Kennedy Center

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/kennedy-center-sf-ballet-trump-21031101.php

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 9/10/25 at 10:14am

I truly despise this man.

[morosco]

Posted: 9/11/25 at 11:08am

Kennedy Center fires head of jazz programming, adding to a string of staff exits

[MezzA101]

Posted: 9/21/25 at 12:15pm

The Bougie Fallout of ICE’s Crackdown in DC

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/20/ice-crackdown-dc-elite-00573586

[Dom P]

Posted: 9/21/25 at 1:56pm

 

Thank You, President Trump🙄

MezzA101 said: "The Bougie Fallout of ICE’s Crackdown in DC

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/20/ice-crackdown-dc-elite-00573586"

 

[MezzA101]

Posted: 10/18/25 at 9:14pm

Why I Left the Kennedy Center

https://www.americantheatre.org/2025/10/15/why-i-left-kennedy-center/

[MezzA101]

Posted: 10/30/25 at 5:14pm

White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects

https://wapo.st/4oIKUh2 

[Esther2]

Posted: 11/7/25 at 6:31pm

Some of this is hilarious and sarcastic.  Overall, it's really depressing. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/the-kennedy-center-crackup.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8.vB_v.gi8JT3I0ur2c&smid=url-share

[MezzA101]

Posted: 11/9/25 at 2:16pm

Sources: Trump wants Commanders' new D.C. stadium named for him

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46892115/trump-wants-commanders-stadium-named-him

[MezzA101]

Posted: 11/15/25 at 5:38pm

Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/arts/national-endowment-humanities-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U8.WJ9J.1I4dSrSdCaIe&smid=nytcore-android-share

[EmceeHammer]

Posted: 11/20/25 at 2:51pm

NY Times: Senate Democrats Investigate Kennedy Center Deals With Trump Allies

Under Richard Grenell, the performing arts center has given steep discounts to CPAC and FIFA, signed contracts with administration associates and spent lavishly on friends.


Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/politics/democrats-kennedy-center-investigate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2k8.pMle.Cur7xkIqr5pw&smid=url-share

"The Kennedy Center agreed to let FIFA use much of the space, with 24-hour-a-day access, for nearly three weeks beginning on Monday, a period that spans the beginning of the center’s highly lucrative holiday season. The decision required the center to move, cancel or reschedule holiday programming, including an orchestra performance to the movie “Home Alone,” which was moved to a different venue, and a performance by the opera singer Camilla Nylund, which was rescheduled to March. The center also canceled contracts that allowed groups to rehearse their holiday performances at the center. Renting out the entire center during that period should have cost FIFA about $5 million, according to the contract. That $5 million amount included an estimated $2.7 million in “rescheduling expenses” and “potential lost revenue,” but the contract shows that the Kennedy Center waived the entire bill."

[MezzA101]

Posted: 12/3/25 at 7:06am

How ‘sacred’ Kennedy Center, site of 2026 World Cup draw, lost its apolitical identity

For over 50 years, the Kennedy Center was an apolitical haven. The site of the World Cup draw has changed under President Trump's direction

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6855480/2025/12/03/kennedy-center-fifa-world-cup-draw-washington-dc-trump/?source=athletic_user_shared_article_email&smid=em-share-ta

 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 12/3/25 at 8:16am

Ultimately, I think the Kennedy Center’s reputation has been badly damaged, and that damage will linger for a long time. Even if all of these recent changes were reversed and things appeared to return to “normal,” the staff and artists working there would still be living with the knowledge that their jobs and programming can be instantly politicized. There’s now a clear precedent that a sitting president can reshape the institution’s leadership simply because they dislike its artistic choices, which creates a chilling effect on what kind of work people feel safe programming or performing.

The ease with which the board’s makeup was changed feels like a serious structural flaw. The Kennedy Center should have had stronger protections in place to insulate it from direct partisan control, especially given its role as a national cultural institution. In my view, the Biden administration should have used its time in office to put more robust safeguards around the Center’s independence before a second Trump administration had the opportunity to leverage those vulnerabilities.

[SteveSanders]

Posted: 12/3/25 at 8:49am

Call_me_jorge said: "The ease with which the board’s makeup was changed feels like a serious structural flaw. The Kennedy Center should have had stronger protections in place to insulate it from direct partisan control, especially given its role as a national cultural institution. In my view, the Biden administration should have used its time in office to put more robust safeguards around the Center’s independence before a second Trump administration had the opportunity to leverage those vulnerabilities."

It would be interesting to look at the governing documents and see whether Congress would need to get involved here or what safeguards the executive branch can enact unilaterally.  A sad reality is that the second Trump administration has again brought to light how easily nefarious intentions can be implemented throughout so many government entities.

 

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 12/3/25 at 9:24am

The ease with which the board’s makeup was changed feels like a serious structural flaw. The Kennedy Center should have had stronger protections in place to insulate it from direct partisan control, especially given its role as a national cultural institution. In my view, the Biden administration should have used its time in office to put more robust safeguards around the Center’s independence before a second Trump administration had the opportunity to leverage those vulnerabilities."

I know there's a tendency to try and find a way to blame Democrats for actions taken by Republicans, but the Trump administration has already bulldozed most "safeguards" that have already been set up in existing independent institutions, mostly by firing anybody tasked with enforcing them and expecting SCOTUS to say "welp, what're we gonna do?"

[Kad]

Posted: 12/3/25 at 9:40am

It’s also worth noting that it turns out there aren’t a lot of specific safeguards - a lot of these institutions were protected by the assumption that presidents and their appointees would be acting in good faith and in line with traditional protocol. Part of what has made the first year of this administration effective is their realization of and disregard for that. But I can’t blame Biden or anybody else for not having that foresight and acting preemptively. Generally, people did not think these were things a president would or could do. 

[MezzA101]

Posted: 12/4/25 at 6:07pm

Trump Naming Kennedy Center After His Favorite President

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-naming-kennedy-center-after-his-favorite-president/