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Miles Archer

(21,783 posts)
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 02:36 PM Dec 21

WHILE I'M ALL FOR a countdown to Orange Rapin' Grampy's dirt nap, I hope he's still here to see THIS...

“Kennedy Center is supposed to be a memorial, focusing on being nonpartisan. A place where people, it doesn’t matter what party they believe in, should be performing and experiencing the arts together regardless of what their party is. And it has not become that.”

Other artists who reluctantly chose to keep their scheduled performances at the center told NOTUS they are doing so as an act of resistance to the 79-year-old president.
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“Reality show personality and con artist aren’t the type of artist the center showcases,” one artist said. They added that they “don’t associate the arts, or this building, with Trump.”

“And I guess the real debate up till now is what you boycott it and help ensure it goes down the tubes,” the musician added. “Or do you do the concerts and keep the audiences that love going to the Kennedy Center. And make sure there’s something there after this guy leaves. And it could be restored from however he trashes it.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/artist-to-pull-kennedy-center-show-over-trump-rename/

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WHILE I'M ALL FOR a countdown to Orange Rapin' Grampy's dirt nap, I hope he's still here to see THIS... (Original Post) Miles Archer Dec 21 OP
If artists boycot Kennedy Center ... CozyMystery Dec 21 #1
Boycott or do the show, with a proclamation about their contempt for the changes berniesandersmittens Dec 21 #2
I like that idea Bayard Dec 21 #3

CozyMystery

(701 posts)
1. If artists boycot Kennedy Center ...
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 04:15 PM
Dec 21

then I guarantee you it will be turned into a vile building with a vile purpose. And no matter what the deal is with Kennedy Center, everyone will just sit around and watch while Kennedy Center is turned into a Trump business that is painted with gold.

So far, Trump gets away with everything he wants to. I don't understand that. Is our country built on quicksand, and we never realized it? What happened to the laws? What happened to hiring or appointing people who know how to do their jobs? What happened to the Constitution? What happened to women's and LBGTQ rights? What happened to Roe v. Wade?

What happened to healthcare and health insurance? Why do for-profit businesses control healthcare? Why do doctors spend more time doing paperwork than talking to patients? Why does someone get to deny medical treatment for patients, when their doctors say it is necessary?

Where are the people who have the Power and Knowledge and Passion to do something about this?

There are other important and valid issues, too, of course. But this is a post, not a book.

berniesandersmittens

(13,090 posts)
2. Boycott or do the show, with a proclamation about their contempt for the changes
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 04:22 PM
Dec 21

Use the platform to speak out against it

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