Leavitt: "He is now the chairman of the board of the Kennedy Center, where he hopes to restore arts and culture that embrace American tradition, don't disparage it, as we have unfortunately seen over the past several years."
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Yes, don’t disparage it with anything created by non-whites, women, people of different sexual orientations, etc. Let’s embrace white male heterosexual Christian culture!!! The only one that matters to the GOP.
Translation: "Trump is our own Chairman Mao who will lead the glorious Cultural Revolution and bring unrivaled prosperity to our great and historic nation."
The jokes albeit dark about this by Americans is quite worrying. This is what authoritarian, totalitarian in fact, regimes do. Dispense with free culture.
>It's fascism.
The respectable media still turns up and asks pointless questions to this imbecile who replies with well practiced nonsense and outright lies. Have they no self respect? Just walk out. Boycott. Every decent news outlet. I don’t get it.
He stiffed them out of their payment, then said they could sell their merchandise, but their merchandise was all stolen out their van while they were inside. The dad who was managing them sued. 🍊🫏🕳 delayed until the dad ran out of money.
Trump just wanted to be on the board so he could wander through the dressing rooms at the Kennedy Center. (He’s just reminiscing about the good old pageant days.)
"works of art which cannot be understood in themselves but need some pretentious instruction book to justify their existence will never again find their way to the German people"
-Adolf Hitler
Hitler also put on his own art show and sent artists he considered to be making “Jewish art” to concentration camps. The Russians outlawed all but Soviet art. The Chinese had an entire “Cultural Revolution. This is a Dictator tradition, not an American one.
According to whom, dear child? Also, you can’t prevent folks from having an opinion on art, or anything else. I’ll disparage the shit out of it if I want to.
He isn't running it. He will show up periodically to make the board members want to kill themselves for being forced to listen to his incessant rambling.
How does gold gilded crap “embrace the American tradition”? Now give me an example of art performed at the Kennedy Center than disparages the “American tradition” (whatever that is exactly)?
The man who has threatened to eliminate the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) over and over again is going to “restore arts and culture”. He has no class and zero culture.
American traditions:
Cheating in business, marriage and sports.
Insurrection
Felony, multiple counts
Escaping justice by corrupt practices
Sexual assault
Collusion with foreign enemies
Betrayal of allies
So....Kid Rock and Ted Nugent as headliners for every production. Assuming no more free shows during the summer. The Kennedy Center is about 5 miles from me. My go to theatre venue....or was. This is sad.
She wouldn't give a response; she would vomit their fake rhetoric and point fingers somewhere else while talking fast over the interviewer to avoid giving an answer.
What is needed is an American version of Steve Bray (stop Brexit man) who stands outside the White House and plays Hamilton on a loop. Be an interesting test of the First Amendment.
Drag is ultimately from confederate soldiers going from camp to camp to mock and make fun of cis women by gay men, oftentimes also in blackface. It is absolutely and American tradition and it is one of the biggest forces in the homosexual movement to erase queer people. It’s fucking American as fuck
The Trump administration just can't quit gaslighting, misinforming, and lying. They meant to say they want the Kennedy Center to be all-white arts and “culture.”
He will honor himself first for his work on The Apprentice since he never won an Emmy for it. And as Don Jr, Ivanka, Eric and even Melania were also on it, there’s your 5 honorees.
Some Kennedy Center artists did the right thing and resigned/canceled tours etc - Ben Folds, Renee Fleming. Some did not. Doesn't take much payment to get people to sell out their ideas, beliefs and country. Truly sad.
This dumbest of press secretaries never fails to say the most obnoxious rhetoric that is becoming more irritating with every press statement! The Kennedy Center has presented disparaging performances? I’d hate to hear her specific examples of this because the implication is insulting enough. SHUT UP
Future appearances will include Lee Greenwood, Kid Rock, Hootie and the Blowfish, and Scott Baio. That’s it. It will be open just 4 days a year, and used as a rentable space for the rest of them. Get married at the Kennedy Center! Just $100,000 for use of the venue for 24 hours!
Lee Greenwood was supposed to be there but allegedly the Kennedy was going to charge him a large sum of money to move a piano. DT said this so it may be a lie.
Trump has horrible taste for everything (we’ve seen his properties, home, etc), and he’s a complete moron and ignorant of anything cultural.
This will go well {cringe}
Art is a great example of cultural evolution. Of course it changes. But how the hell does current arts and culture disparage American traditions? Traditions themselves change over time, too.
Do they stand on a podium as well in that room? 🤔 When someone doesn't use a qualifier to indicate "behind", and they are also on a riser...? Just wondering. 🙃
"Some exciting news, we're in process on a restoration of Birth of a Nation for KC. And surprise, it will no longer be in black and white, that's right, we're having it colorized! Stay tuned for an update ..."
Trumpelthinskin has no culture, has no awareness of art or culture. Can anyone even say, with a straight face, the names Kid Rock and Ted Nugent in a sentence with art and culture? OMG! LOL!! 🤣
Disparaging events like their annual Messiah concert, Christmas and Halloween concerts, the recent showing of Elf with the national symphony playing some of the soundtrack, several Broadway shows, music artists, etc. What we have never had was a choir of insurrectionists. That would be a first.
The new COB is the most classless, artless, gaudy MF to ever be in public office - I'm not hopeful that the Kennedy Center will improve under the new board.
One day this voice of maga America will recognise her part in the destruction of her country. She’s young enough to live a lifetime of regret & ignominy. She deserves nothing less.
It will be interesting to see what arts events are considered to ‘embrace American tradition’. I’m sorry to say, but I think only straight white people (men!) will be represented on stage, as actors, as producers and as writers. What a barren cultural landscape.
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What happened?
Are they currently on vacation...?
>It's fascism.
Entartete Kunst was a term used during the Nazi dictatorship in Germany in the 1930s to condemn German and international avant-garde art movements.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/politics/oval-office-gold-decor-trump/index.html
Art, music and books had to reflect a certain 'aesthetic'.
#Leavitt
https://youtu.be/-XqnE1PnWF4?si=s7InEgYaeKj79f43
2016
Soon to be the chairman of the Congress and all corporations.
Corporate execs, continue to support your displacement.
Kennedy Hee Haw Center!
Long will this
Person stand there
And humiliate herself?
Utterly unable to see it for herself🤬🤬🤬. Just sad and very embarrassing for the USA!
-Adolf Hitler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E52rxz2sjRs
Erutan is also a pretty good artist.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/entartete-kunst-the-nazis-inventory-of-degenerate-art?srsltid=AfmBOorHIs_3URI0e3ffhhrAy9_VRwLafMkahArE63G_Ywscnl5ts2zj
Cheating in business, marriage and sports.
Insurrection
Felony, multiple counts
Escaping justice by corrupt practices
Sexual assault
Collusion with foreign enemies
Betrayal of allies
But yeah, nothing disparaging...
Lying for Donald with Jesus in their mouth.
Jazz is legitimately the only musical form created exclusively in the melting pot of America.
My guess he brings in
Old timey Broadway shows
Shitty country music
Kid Rock and other MAGA pop
No he won’t bring in jazz because that was created by black musicians
He’s gonna bring in white, -pasty white- American bullshit from 40 years ago
Fair enough. Although many people lump those two musics together.
Any self-respecting jazz musician can play the blues, even today.
https://youtu.be/9fR2r8Qlyyk?si=ECE3WxXQvcQdA069
Bless her heart!
/s
https://youtube.com/shorts/Oc9dMq6rZms?si=wJ_3oTa-c5E-d1hg
This will go well {cringe}
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Yankee Doodle Douchebag: The Donald Trump Musical!
Wicked 2: The Stephen Miller Story
A Year With Frog and Toad: The Untold Friendship Between JD Vance and Elon Musk
That’s it. Bravo 🙌
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyjwuoKJBs4
Every show will start off with a rendition of the YMCA by the Village people
here's a hint:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_in_Nazi_Germany
Theater Productions:
Clue, Champions of Magic, & Juliet, Finn
Special Events: 47th Kennedy Center Honors (with Francis Ford Coppola, The Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt, Arturo Sandoval, The Apollo Theater).
How leftist!