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Tuesday, February 03, 2026

The Kennedy Center Embarrassed Trump, so Now He Needs to Destroy It

www.jezebel.com: As soon as artists and performers began canceling their scheduled Kennedy Center engagements en masse following President Donald Trump’s historically self-aggrandizing move to add his own name to the building, we probably should have figured that the single most likely outcome would be that Trump would immediately begin tracing his fat fingers over a glowing, red self-destruct button for the center, which has served the American public for 55 years since its opening in 1971.

1 comment:

Eliana Stevens said...

I think this article phrasesTrump's intention perfectly well. He bought this building in hopes of making money and slapping his name on a very successful historical building in business. Instead, the outcome was artists dropping from performing there and refusing to perform under his name and have any association with him. This thing led to him destroying the building and what it's made for, and he isBuilding something in his image that he can claim isRestoring but all in all, he is destroying something that left him embarrassed because people refuse to work or perform under his name It makes perfect sense to me that as soon as performers refused to perform at the center now that his name was attached to it that of course he would want to bulldoze it and reinvent it in his imageBecause in his mindWhoever and whatever does not bend to his rules and what he wants he will destroy and this is a perfect example of the destruction that he causes for the name of money and power.