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(165,791 posts) Mon Dec 22, 2025, 06:00 AM Dec 22

Artist to Pull Kennedy Center Show Over Trump Rename

Source: Daily Beast

Updated Dec. 21 2025 6:04PM EST
Published Dec. 21 2025 11:15AM EST

The Kennedy Center is already losing performers after Donald Trump slapped his name on the storied arts institution. Kristy Lee, a folk singer scheduled to perform at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts on Jan. 14, is in talks to cancel her appearance, her spokesperson told NOTUS, as other artists also move to sever ties with the venue.

One performer, who spoke to NOTUS on the condition of anonymity, said Trump’s renaming had left a permanent “stain” on the center. Another lamented what the Kennedy Center once represented—for artists and for the country at large. “I feel really badly for performers, not just for performers but for the people who work there,” they said.

“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.

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

Link to NOTUS article - Artists Are Threatening to Cancel Over Trump’s Kennedy Center Renaming

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Artist to Pull Kennedy Center Show Over Trump Rename (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 22 OP

I loved going there. I refuse to return... qanda Dec 22 #1

A nice billionaire should lease a performance space nearby for 3 yrs Callie1979 Dec 22 #2

Wut? buzzycrumbhunger Dec 22 #3

I mean, if there's any chance of them going on stage and publicly denouncing him, tanyev Dec 22 #5

$$$$$$ pfitz59 Dec 22 #6

Don't give a F*CK, they are complicit NotHardly Dec 22 #11

Are they performing in front of Trump? fujiyamasan Dec 26 #14

They're POS to perform there NotHardly Dec 22 #10

GOOD. Paladin Dec 22 #4

Any artist who accepts a Trump Center invitation should be boycotted. Martin68 Dec 22 #7

THIS NotHardly Dec 22 #9

Decline performances or be labeled as as*wipes NotHardly Dec 22 #8

No one should perform there. mdbl Dec 22 #12

Look at the 2026 calendar after the name change LetMyPeopleVote Dec 26 #13

qanda

(10,434 posts)

1. I loved going there. I refuse to return...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 06:09 AM

Dec 22

Until that pile of human excrement has nothing else to do with it.

Callie1979

(1,147 posts)

2. A nice billionaire should lease a performance space nearby for 3 yrs

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 06:12 AM

Dec 22

Hold all the shows we WOULD have had at the Kennedy Center there to embarrass that shitshow. Then win in '28 & remove the stain

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,651 posts)

3. Wut?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 06:44 AM

Dec 22

"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."

How is it "act of resistance" to perform there anyway?

tanyev

(48,665 posts)

5. I mean, if there's any chance of them going on stage and publicly denouncing him,

Reply to buzzycrumbhunger (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 08:57 AM

Dec 22

it’s highly unlikely they would have been booked in the first place.

pfitz59

(12,321 posts)

6. $$$$$$

Reply to buzzycrumbhunger (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 09:05 AM

Dec 22

Artists gotta eat. I think the staff and performers should sue. They agreed to waork at the 'Kennedy Center', not the 'Trump Dump'.

NotHardly

(2,621 posts)

11. Don't give a F*CK, they are complicit

Reply to pfitz59 (Reply #6)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 01:34 PM

Dec 22

fujiyamasan

(1,227 posts)

14. Are they performing in front of Trump?

Reply to NotHardly (Reply #11)

Fri Dec 26, 2025, 05:33 PM

Dec 26

If not, it’s ultimately just another venue, nothing more than a building where they perform, collect a paycheck and go along their way.

I don’t think we should hold it against them for that.

Now if they’re actually performing for him, as in when he’s in the audience, well in that case fuck them. No respect.

NotHardly

(2,621 posts)

10. They're POS to perform there

Reply to buzzycrumbhunger (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 01:33 PM

Dec 22

Name and shame them

Paladin

(32,291 posts)

4. GOOD.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 08:00 AM

Dec 22

The Kennedy Center ought to devolve into nothing more than an empty warehouse, until trump is gone and the honorable reputation of the Center is restored. Blessings on those performers who help make it happen.