Shove over, Beardy Boy
More people ditch Trump’s Trump-Kennedy Center.
At least three more events are no longer happening at the Kennedy Center after its board, which was handpicked by President Donald Trump, voted to rename the venue the Trump-Kennedy Center.
New York Dance Company Doug Varone and Dancers announced that they would no longer bring their pre-scheduled performance to the institution in protest of the decision to rename the arts center.
Not simply in protest of the decision to rename the arts center; in protest of Trump’s decision to rename the arts center named after an assassinated president so that it includes Trump along with the assassinated president. It’s about as crassly greedy and callous and just plain dumb as it’s possible to get.
Alabama folk singer Kristy Lee, who was set to perform a free show on Jan. 14, was also among the artists who pulled out. “I won’t lie to you, canceling shows hurts,” she said in a Instagram post last week. “This is how I keep the lights on. But losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck. When American history starts getting treated like something you can ban, erase, rename, or rebrand for somebody else’s ego, I can’t stand on that stage and sleep right at night.”
Well said. It’s not just the usual trump vanity and egotism, it’s the tampering with an existing memorial. Next thing you know he’ll be adding a statue of himself whacking a golf ball next to Lincoln in the eponymous memorial.
Oh look, I’m too late.
Well, the fasces on either side of Trump in the re-imagined memorial is appropriate.
Once Trump and Vance are out of the White House, the number of public works projects needed to dismantle the defacement and disfigurement of American memorials and institutions appropriated by the Orange Ego will rival the WPA. And who knows, there my be another Depression to go along with.
This is no concession, but the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was not renamed the Trump Center. He merely added his ‘brand’ (by which ‘branding’ I mean worthless marketing exposure), and did not remove Kennedy’s name. Because! JFK mattered, and Trump does not. If Trump really mattered and was worthy of renaming the Kennedy Center, he would have removed Kennedy’s name. It’s at best preadolescent graffiti. He’ll run it into the ground like the casinos and other failures his putrefied ego has driven to ruination.
He also can’t rename the Washington Memorial or the Lincoln Memorial for the same reason, all he can do is deface them like a common vandal.
twiliter, everyone has noted that it is called the Trump-Kennedy center. Leaving Kennedy’s name on there does not change anything. Trump is hogging up things that belong to all of us, not to him. He has made definite statements on what sorts of arts he considers appropriate. He plans to leave his brand on every inch of this country.
@ 2 what do you mean Trump didn’t rename it? Yes he did! His name is on the wall of the building!