Ticket sales dropped roughly 50 percent week-over-week after Trump announced his takeover, sources said. Meanwhile, performers are mulling their options.
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I strongly suspect he'll recruit some high-profile, crowd-pleasing star-act from Las Vegas or somewhere who'll get a different, MAGA crowd in who'll pay top $ for the privilege of supporting him.
It won't be the same place here on in...
Trump has no interest in the arts. This is just one more control position for him. He thinks he can control what we want to see and hear and feel. As an artist myself I say boycott the Kennedy Center until the clown leaves town for good and the proper docents of the KC are back in place
Hopefully, these leaders and artists realize the destruction of the culture and ensuing outrage is the goal. They should setup shop next door and call it the J. Hendricks Center. We shouldn't celebrate its death. We should celebrate its rebirth.
Yes. The Nazis burned the paintings or locked them in cellars. Can’t have people inspired by beauty or philosophy. Sell off the national parks too… who needs nature….
Either this was what Trump wanted all along - to destroy the Kennedy Center - or he thought that he's some sort of brilliant impresario who'll be able to do better.
Plenty of other fabulous venues across the country, from smaller, independent operations to prestigious ones in larger cities, would welcome these artists.
As usual the best way to make a difference, is to stop attending; drop the gig at the Center. Stop buying through Amazon, stop using Meta-based social media, stop buying Tesla. They will only change if their profit margin is shrinking.
All the more incentive for him and the musk rats to shut it down. What a beautiful venue it is, too. Jealousy, jealousy, jealousy is what trumps is made of. He'll never run out of material because there will always be SOMETHING for him to be jealous of.
Everything Trump is touching wilts or underperforms.
Wonder when enough folks who held their noses and voted him into power will be personally hit with reckless dismantling of Gov’t services & benefits that a backlash in GOP will drive Congress to do their jobs as check & balance of Exec branch.
This is a tough one - an artist life is tough enough already. I hate to starve them of much needed income but at the same time not voting with my dollars for him
If I were PR for the talent, my advice would be to avoid anything associated with Trump. This whole maga thing collapses when Trump dies; he's about 80 now 😂 sooo c'mon. Also, all this maga shit is not going to age well at all, after Gen-z and others age into adulthood. So, free advice: say no.
I wish that was true. He’s just the crusty orange bloated puppet for a whole infrastructure of greed and corruption. We have Vance next who apparently has no core values whatsoever.
"My message to young men is don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you’re competitive,”
I think so. If I were an artist, I can't imagine harming my brand for such a short-sighted gain of performing at this venue. Not that I believe artists to be saavy business people...but I assume their talent agencies to have some foresight.
There are 336 cities with 100 thousand people or more in the US.
If only ten people in each city were at the first protest, and each new person brought two new people to the next event seven times over we'll be over 55 million!
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Good.
Less toxic people at the shows!!
It won't be the same place here on in...
https://youtu.be/P2CUFX9kUkM?si=UzHi6I05HiXn_92a
The Jan. 6th fucking choir.
JFK is turning over in his grave.
https://archive.md/1yAPG
Wonder when enough folks who held their noses and voted him into power will be personally hit with reckless dismantling of Gov’t services & benefits that a backlash in GOP will drive Congress to do their jobs as check & balance of Exec branch.
He's just such a doughy, awkward, skin sack of wasted teeth & organs.
At CPAC, his description of hanging out with other guys was like an answer an alien disguised as a human might say.
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JD:
"My message to young men is don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you’re competitive,”
Beer and jokes!👍
There are 336 cities with 100 thousand people or more in the US.
If only ten people in each city were at the first protest, and each new person brought two new people to the next event seven times over we'll be over 55 million!
Please share!
https://bigthink.com/the-present/the-3-5-percent-solution/
Melania Trump Is No Jackie Kennedy
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