Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center- Page 26
Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center
Trump calls it the Trump Kennedy Center #625
Posted: 12/31/25 at 8:35am
Kennedy Center changed board rules months before vote to add Trump’s name
https://wapo.st/4baSiya
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/22
Trump calls it the Trump Kennedy Center #626
Posted: 12/31/25 at 9:08am
""More Kennedy Center Performances Are Canceled After Trump’s Renaming
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."
So are you glad the Kenney Center is losing millions in revenue and employees are losing income because you hate a name change that will at most last a couple of years. Not disagreeing that rename of the center is disgusting but is that the best way to protest? Happy New Year!!!
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
Trump calls it the Trump Kennedy Center #627
Posted: 12/31/25 at 9:57am
Zeppie2022 said: """More Kennedy Center Performances Are Canceled After Trump’s Renaming
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."
So are you glad the Kenney Center is losing millions in revenue and employees are losing income because you hate a name change that will at most last a couple of years. Not disagreeing that rename of the center is disgusting but is that the best way to protest? Happy New Year!!!"
What other way do you suggest? Perform with T-shirts that read "We don't really want to be here"?
Trump calls it the Trump Kennedy Center #628
Posted: 12/31/25 at 10:28am
Zeppie2022 said: """More Kennedy Center Performances Are Canceled After Trump’s Renaming
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."
So are you glad the Kenney Center is losing millions in revenue and employees are losing income because you hate a name change that will at most last a couple of years. Not disagreeing that rename of the center is disgusting but is that the best way to protest? Happy New Year!!!"
There's just one event booked there over the next six months. Everything he touches crumbles. Dumpster should be reimbursing the employees for every cancelled event. You know, write them a check just like he's sending out $2,000 checks from DOGE & $5,000 from tariff revenue...
Trump calls it the Trump Kennedy Center #629
Posted: 12/31/25 at 10:54am
Zeppie2022 said: """More Kennedy Center Performances Are Canceled After Trump’s Renaming
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."
So are you glad the Kenney Center is losing millions in revenue and employees are losing income because you hate a name change that will at most last a couple of years. Not disagreeing that rename of the center is disgusting but is that the best way to protest? Happy New Year!!!"
You’ve been asked for the “best way to protest” and all you’ve been able to come up with is “stand outside with signs,” which is just an ineffective and slower way to do what these cancellations are doing (and as it pertains to the artists pulling out, makes no sense). Wild that you apparently take more issue with artists pulling out than the administration’s decisions and mismanagement that causes them to do so. The KC has become an unambiguously partisan and politicized propaganda arm for the administration- it’s wholly on them if artists no longer wish to grace it with their talents. It’s not the artists’ responsibility to make sure the Center’s staff gets paid. It’s not on the artists to make sure audiences show up. It’s on the Center’s leadership, and they are unequivocally failing.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
Trump calls it the Trump Kennedy Center #630
Posted: 12/31/25 at 11:49am
Kad said: "The KC has become an unambiguously partisan and politicized propaganda arm for the administration- it’s wholly on them if artists no longer wish to grace it with their talents."
Very, very sadly and disappointingly, this is the truth of the matter. Trump is mimicking Hitler's actions of the 30s and 40s.
JD Vance has referred to Trump as "America's Hitler". See: HERE, HERE, and HERE (which includes a fact checked substantiation.) ...and there are plenty more articles that say the same thing.
Ivana Trump told Vanity Fair in 1990 that Trump used to used to keep a book of Adolf Hitler’s speeches in his bedside cabinet.
As is typical of Trump, he's added another element of distraction that will probably re-focus America's attention away from the Kennedy Center re-branding issue, though. Looks like we're going to war with Venezuela...
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/04
Trump calls it the Trump Kennedy Center #631
Posted: 12/31/25 at 12:27pm
Zeppie2022 said: """More Kennedy Center Performances Are Canceled After Trump’s Renaming
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."
So are you glad the Kenney Center is losing millions in revenue and employees are losing income because you hate a name change that will at most last a couple of years. Not disagreeing that rename of the center is disgusting but is that the best way to protest? Happy New Year!!!"
Yes, I’m glad no one wants to perform there. Happy new year!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trump calls it the Trump Kennedy Center #632
Posted: 12/31/25 at 1:25pm
I can't stand the man, but will admit he is good at "four dimensional chess" to get what he wants. I wonder if we WANTS the Kennedy Center to fail. Yes, it will fail with his name on it, but he can use the "leftists/woke mob/democrats/anyone who doesn't worship me ruined it" talking points. He can then have the building demolished/gut renovated and open the Trump Center for American Exceptionalism/Putting America First/whatever else the MAGA folks will love.
Yeah, demolishing/renovating/repurposing the Kennedy Center is probably illegal, but that's never been a deterrent to him before.
Trump calls it the Trump Kennedy Center #633
Posted: 12/31/25 at 2:28pm
saxpower said: "I can't stand the man, but will admit he is good at "four dimensional chess" to get what he wants. I wonder if we WANTS the Kennedy Center to fail. Yes, it will fail with his name on it, but he can use the "leftists/woke mob/democrats/anyone who doesn't worship me ruined it" talking points. He can then have the building demolished/gut renovated and open the Trump Center for American Exceptionalism/Putting America First/whatever else the MAGA folks will love.
Yeah, demolishing/renovating/repurposing the Kennedy Center is probably illegal, but that's never been a deterrent to him before."
Maybe one day some of these brainwashed Americans will wake up and see what they allowed to happen.
The history books won’t be kind when the time comes, and they will have to live with their shame. Trump will not have the reputation he hopes for when all is said and done.
So part of me says let him continue on his quest, he’s only solidifying his infamy.
Trump calls it the Trump Kennedy Center #634
Posted: 12/31/25 at 2:45pm
saxpower said: "I can't stand the man, but will admit he is good at "four dimensional chess" to get what he wants. I wonder if we WANTS the Kennedy Center to fail. Yes, it will fail with his name on it, but he can use the "leftists/woke mob/democrats/anyone who doesn't worship me ruined it" talking points. He can then have the building demolished/gut renovated and open the Trump Center for American Exceptionalism/Putting America First/whatever else the MAGA folks will love.
Yeah, demolishing/renovating/repurposing the Kennedy Center is probably illegal, but that's never been a deterrent to him before."
He wouldn't have forced them to put his name on it if he wanted it to fail. He's not a strategist, he's a narcissist. He knows he's old and won't be around much longer, so he's scrambling to scrape together as much of a legacy as he can muster before the inevitable. That and he's always been desperate for the approval of the entertainment industry and other forms of prestigious society that have always seen right through him.
It's not strategic. It's just pathetic.
Trump calls it the Trump Kennedy Center #635
Posted: 12/31/25 at 5:15pm
saxpower said: "I can't stand the man, but will admit he is good at "four dimensional chess" to get what he wants."
I don't think so. I think he's incredibly stupid in every way that could possibly be measured. What he has, inexplicably, is a lot of people who will do whatever he tells them, and when you have that you don't need brain cells.
Trump calls it the Trump Kennedy Center #636
Posted: 12/31/25 at 5:16pm
Luminaire2 said: "The history books won’t be kind when the time comes, and they will have to live with their shame."
If there's any justice, they won't be living at all.
Trump calls it the Trump Kennedy Center #637
Posted: 12/31/25 at 5:28pm
Surrounding yourself with sycophants to get what you want is not "four dimensional chess." It is a time tested strategy used by many around the world for decades.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
Trump calls it the Trump Kennedy Center #638
Posted: 12/31/25 at 6:11pm
saxpower said: "I can't stand the man, but will admit he is good at "four dimensional chess" to get what he wants."
In addition to SteveSanders' comment above, I would add that if you want to casually parrot a notion that Trump has the ability to play "four dimensional chess", you should also have an understanding of how the meme originated: Know Your Meme.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/06
Trump calls it the Trump Kennedy Center #639
Posted: 1/1/26 at 4:43pm
Trump takeover of DC#640
Posted: 1/1/26 at 7:24pm
White House lays out nine-week timeline to win approval for Trump’s ballroom
https://wapo.st/4q1zPJ9
Trump takeover of DC#641
Posted: 1/1/26 at 11:04pm
Trump Has Renamed the Kennedy Center, but a Satirist Owns the URL
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/us/politics/trump-kennedy-center-website-toby-morton.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BVA.l9G4.jsL-a2V9SKOd&smid=nytcore-android-share
Trump takeover of DC#642
Posted: 1/2/26 at 11:08am
Stephen Schwartz pulls out as host of the Washington National Opera gala in protest.
Won’t he think of the ushers?!
Stand-by Joined: 12/5/07
Trump takeover of DC#643
Posted: 1/2/26 at 11:35am
Word is he's actively trying to get JFK's name removed completely. This is of course illegal, but that doesn't seem to matter to him in the slightest. Laws be damned.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
Trump takeover of DC#644
Posted: 1/3/26 at 10:19am
John Adams said: "As is typical of Trump, he's added another element of distraction that will probably re-focus America's attention away from the Kennedy Center re-branding issue, though. Looks like we're going to war with Venezuela..."
So... He's bombed Caracas and kidnapped Maduro and his wife. Both are currently in an undisclosed location.
Trump will hold a news conference at Mar-a-Lago at 11 a.m. ET today.
Trump takeover of DC#645
Posted: 1/3/26 at 10:29am
John Adams said: "John Adams said: "As is typical of Trump, he's added another element of distraction that will probably re-focus America's attention away from the Kennedy Center re-branding issue, though. Looks like we're going to war with Venezuela..."
So... He's bombed Caracas and kidnappedMaduro and his wife. Both are currently in an undisclosed location.
Trump will hold a news conference at Mar-a-Lago at 11 a.m. ET today."
all without congressional approval, which is against the law. But again, he doesn't follow the law or any rules.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
Trump takeover of DC#646
Posted: 1/3/26 at 10:36am
ACL2006 said: "all without congressional approval, which is against the law. But again, he doesn't follow the law or any rules."
Unfortunately (although not wrongfully), both China and Russia agree. Both utilize the Venezuelan oil that Trump wants (the narco-trafficking is just a smokescreen).
#notmypresident
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
Trump takeover of DC#647
Posted: 1/3/26 at 10:55am
LIVE: Trump speaks after US strikes Venezuela and captures Maduro (Associated Press)
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
Trump takeover of DC#648
Posted: 1/3/26 at 11:47am
Holy sh!t... The US is now "running Venezuela" and will stay "until such time as a proper transition can take place".
#notmypresident
Trump takeover of DC#649
Posted: 1/3/26 at 11:53am
John Adams said: "Holy sh!t... The US is now "running Venezuela" and will stay "until such time as a proper transition can take place".
#notmypresident"
all lies. This was all about oil, not drug trafficking.
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