Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center — Page 25

Copeman63 said: "I gotta say….
I absolutely LOVE that none of us are talking about the show and instead are doing the usual BroadwayWorld bickering.
the hostess with the not-mostess really dropped the ball!"

"bickering"? "the hostess with the not-mostess really dropped the ball"?

If there's a point to your post, it's too cryptic for me...

#notmypresident

Updated On: 12/25/25 at 06:51 AM

John Adams said: "Copeman63 said: "I gotta say….
I absolutely LOVE that none of us are talking about the show and instead are doing the usual BroadwayWorld bickering.
the hostess with the not-mostess really dropped the ball!"

"bickering"? "the hostess with the not-mostess really dropped the ball"?

If there's a point to your post, it's too cryptic for me...

#notmypresident"

God, some of you are exhausting… Can you just be nice??



My point is I haven’t seen a single review of the actual telecast, which makes me happy. That idiot thought people his NASCAR crowd would tune in to a performing arts show just to see him.


Hopefully that clears it up for you…

via TMZ • Ratings Tank For Kennedy Center Honors:

"Preliminary data from Nielsen shows CBS had "its smallest ever audience" for the Kennedy Center Honors with an estimated 2.65 million viewers ... a sharp, 35% decline from 2024 when the show had 4.1 million viewers."

The Daily Beast • Trump Humiliated as He Scores Lowest Kennedy Center Ratings Ever

"President Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center Honors hosting debut on Tuesday flopped badly.

Preliminary ratings data show CBS’s broadcast of the awards show attracted its smallest audience ever, according to Programming Insider."

Yet another cancellation:

Chuck Redd cancelled the Center's annual Christmas Eve Jazz Concert due to the name change.

Dreamboy3 said: "Anyone know the contractual arrangements for these types of things?"

As you might expect, they will vary by artist and institution. In my time on boards of performing arts institutions, the only contractual outs performers had were illness or force majeure conditions. Redd may indeed be on the hook for some damages given the timing and stated reason for cancellation.

Zeppie2022 said: ""Chuck Redd cancelled the Center's annual Christmas Eve Jazz Concert due to the name change."

Does this hurt Trump, answer is no. Does this hurt ushers and others who lose a night's pay, the answer is yes. Better ways to voice displeasure with Trump than hurting working people."

Redd's reputation and brand could also have been hurt had he continued to perform as we have seen other artists heavily criticized and/or face other retribution. That is certainly part of the argument I would make in his defense to limit any damages from the threatened legal action.

I also wonder if the contractual language was with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and not the Trump and Kennedy Center. I can imagine some lawyers arguing this is splitting hairs or while otters would make the case it is a valid difference.

Zeppie2022 said: ""Chuck Redd cancelled the Center's annual Christmas Eve Jazz Concert due to the name change."

Does this hurt Trump, answer is no. Does this hurt ushers and others who lose a night's pay, the answer is yes. Better ways to voice displeasure with Trump than hurting working people."

Sounds like it's Donald Trump that's hurting the Ushers and House Staff tho? If he was only a massive piece of **** but let the Kennedy Center run independent of him, nobody would have an issue. However he insisted on jamming himself and loyalists onto the board, canceled a bunch of Queer programming (which hurt those Ushers and Staff you pretend to care about), alienated many high profile productions from wanting to do business there, and then capped it off by putting his NAME on it.

So why don't you tell me who is doing damage to the Kennedy Center and it's Staff? Chuck Redd? Or is it Donal Trump? The typical culprit...

Zeppie2022 said: ""And what ways are those? A strongly worded letter?
Protests are meant to be disruptive. Otherwise they are meaningless. "

Not watching the TV show of the awards and that was successful, lowest TV rating in years. That seems to have shut Trump up. Fight the renaming of the Kennedy Center which I believe Congress has the power to do. Every performance at the Kennedy Center have people protesting outside of the event."

The Republican Congress? Who do ALL his bidding! Fight the renaming? Riiiight! Maybe in 3 years…

"The Republican Congress? Who do ALL his bidding! Fight the renaming? Riiiight! Maybe in 3 years…"

The Republican Congress which has the slimmest margin in the House. You don't think a few of them think renaming the center is wrong. We shall see. For all we know Democrats take the House back in 2026.

from the New York Times (gift link)

A dance company withdrew from two performances next year, and the arts center’s website says two New Year’s Eve jazz concerts have been canceled."

Trump's Kennedy Center Cancellations: Everything That Happened in 2025

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/trump-kennedy-center-everything-that-happend-2026-1235492341/