Trump takes over the Kennedy Center for the Arts---ticket sales drop by half..

[Magical Realist]

"Donald Trump’s move to take control of Washington D.C’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has led to a staggering 50 percent drop in ticket sales, according to a report.

Trump fired the Kennedy Center’s leadership upon his return to the Oval Office and put MAGA loyalist Richard Grenell in charge of the famed institution.

In the week that followed the decision ticket sales halved, Kennedy Center staff members told The Washington Post anonymously for fear of reprisals.

And it is not just audience members who have deserted the Kennedy Center.

Actress and comedian Issa Rae was the first major artist to announce that she was canceling her show there.

“Unfortunately, due to what I believe to be an infringement on the values of an institution that has faithfully celebrated artists of all backgrounds through all mediums, I’ve decided to cancel my appearance at this venue,” she said in an Instagram story on February 13, with tickers being refunded.

Canadian mystery writer Louise Penny also pulled out of her scheduled appearance.

“In DC, but in the wake of Trump taking over, I have pulled out. It was, of course, going to be a career highlight. But there are things far more important than that,” she wrote on Facebook.

The ticket sales slump comes after Trump’s White House press secretary bragged that, "The Kennedy Center learned the hard way that if you go woke, you will go broke...”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...03156.html

[Syne]

That's what happens when a bunch of leftists boycott the arts over their TDS.

[Magical Realist]

It's far worse than boycott. Trump's name is now anathema for business. He'll run that institution into the ground like he did his resorts and casinos in Atlantic City...

[Syne]

The majority of Americans voted for Trump because they're tired of all the blue-haired gender-queer freaks and their moron bleeding heart allies pushing their perversion in everyone's face. Companies are killing their DEI because it's proven bad for business. And businesses will do far better under Trump, with less corporate tax burden stifling economic growth.

[Magical Realist]

I'm sure Hitler won the popular vote too. That's how populist demagogue psychopaths get into power. By fear mongering about and scapegoating a whole ethnic class of people. It's a sad statement on the average intelligence of American voters.

[Syne]

Illegal immigrants are not an ethnic class, moron. That's as racist as Biden saying "poor kids are just as smart as white kids."

You're such a piece of shit.

[Magical Realist]

Illegal immigrants are not an ethnic class, moron. That's as racist as Biden saying "poor kids are just as smart as white kids."

You're such a piece of shit.

To all Trumpers they are. The brown people who can't speak english and who murder and rape and steal jobs and have anchor babies. If that's not ethnic scapegoating I don't know what is.

[Syne]

That's you projecting your own racism, you piece of shit.

[Magical Realist]

"President Donald Trump’s brazen takeover of the Kennedy Center has led to the venue losing out on the major Broadway hit “Hamilton,” whose creators are pulling out of a scheduled run next year.

In a statement Wednesday, the musical’s producer, Jeffrey Seller, said Trump’s recent “purge” of staff and performances “flies in the face of everything this national cultural center represents.”

“Our show simply cannot, in good conscience, participate and be a part of this new culture that is being imposed on the Kennedy Center,” Seller said.

He pointed out that “Hamilton” had been performed at the center in 2018 during Trump’s first term and noted that the decision to pull performances was not a stance against the administration, but rather “against the partisan policies of the Kennedy Center as a result of his recent takeover.”---
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest...rcna195126

[confused2]

In fairness, withdrawing funding for 'things' isn't the same as organizing lynch mobs - I guess folks can work out how to do that for themselves..