Who has to be a genius to realize these "renovations" are actually the big toddler stamping his feet? And will he be paying the employees whose jobs will be affected?
What I keep thinking about Trump is, has he ever even tried to use legitimate means to do anything?
I had a boss once, who was hired in a hurry because it was a small town with few applicants and the previous director left unexpectedly. She was newly graduated, and had no admin experience or training, and not even any real-world experience yet doing the thing she was trained for. She was technically qualified only by having the right certification.
She had no idea how to do her actual job, so she spent a lot of time alone in her office doing the jobs she did understand - ones that were being handled by the other staff just fine. This caused some feelings, and a couple people quit. And when it became clear that she had not done any of her real work (when money issues appeared) she was canned.
Donald Trump has no idea what a president actually does, even after all this time. What he has learned, he mostly doesn't like to do. So of course he is reaching for comfort to things he does understand to some extent - renovating and building cheap yet overpriced ugly buildings. We all should have seen this coming.
I’ve just read reports of a devastated Lee Greenwood, seen sobbing uncontrollably at an Olive Garden when he heard the news. He was about to begin an Artist in Residence at the trump KENNEDY Center, working with Philip Glass and the Village People to arrange and perform an extended version of John Cage’s 4:33, with full orchestra. “I’m crushed!”, cried the distraught Greenwood. “Crushed!”
It's also completely unnecessary, the last reno of the Kennedy Center was less than a decade ago, and each room is insulated to allow the rooms to be renovated without interfering with performances going on in other spaces.
The audacity of his latest move is both galling and pathetic. The center, created to honor a real vs authoritarian, money guzzling, traitor, only needs two renovations to make it legitimate and popular again, remove his name and his board. More appropriation of other people’s products. Loser.
Everything Trump touches dies. He has poisoned this venue. Let it go. The arts deserve a fresh start preferably in a new facility that hasn't been tainted by the Trump kiss of death. And for goodness sake, do not connect it to the government.
You know how Bayreuth has a Ring Cycle? You know how Oberammergau has the Passion Play? Maybe we could do a for real Wicker Man in a field by the Potomac. You know, have the young virgins in white dance around the Washington Monument? Maybe tell DJT that there is a Virgin who gives great oral sex trapped inside the Wickerman, and we need his BDE to go and bring her out?
One of the first things Trump did when his first term as prexy began was to DEFUND the arts. Rolling Stone Magazine responded with an article headlined "Welcome to Donald Trump's Ignorant America." How right it was.
Trump knows art*
He is classy!!!!
*Is that statement dripping with enough sarcasm?
Who has to be a genius to realize these "renovations" are actually the big toddler stamping his feet? And will he be paying the employees whose jobs will be affected?
What I keep thinking about Trump is, has he ever even tried to use legitimate means to do anything?
I had a boss once, who was hired in a hurry because it was a small town with few applicants and the previous director left unexpectedly. She was newly graduated, and had no admin experience or training, and not even any real-world experience yet doing the thing she was trained for. She was technically qualified only by having the right certification.
She had no idea how to do her actual job, so she spent a lot of time alone in her office doing the jobs she did understand - ones that were being handled by the other staff just fine. This caused some feelings, and a couple people quit. And when it became clear that she had not done any of her real work (when money issues appeared) she was canned.
Donald Trump has no idea what a president actually does, even after all this time. What he has learned, he mostly doesn't like to do. So of course he is reaching for comfort to things he does understand to some extent - renovating and building cheap yet overpriced ugly buildings. We all should have seen this coming.
So Spinal Tap and the puppet show canceled out too, huh?
The head of JFK that is in the Lobby will be dumped in the Potomac, and a Golden Statue of DJT clutching a Bit Coin will take its place.
Kennedy Center actually has disability access, and has since it was first built, long before it was law.
Tump would end that if he could.
I’ve just read reports of a devastated Lee Greenwood, seen sobbing uncontrollably at an Olive Garden when he heard the news. He was about to begin an Artist in Residence at the trump KENNEDY Center, working with Philip Glass and the Village People to arrange and perform an extended version of John Cage’s 4:33, with full orchestra. “I’m crushed!”, cried the distraught Greenwood. “Crushed!”
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If you're actually interested in why Trump is doing all this, a former employee has the inside info here https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/1qtgemc/trump_says_the_kennedy_center_will_close_for_a/o330kcb/ It's worth a read, but in short, it's revenge for artists snubbing him in 2017 for his "good people on both sides" comment about his Nazi followers.
It's also completely unnecessary, the last reno of the Kennedy Center was less than a decade ago, and each room is insulated to allow the rooms to be renovated without interfering with performances going on in other spaces.
What is going to happen to the Leni Riefenstahl Film Festival? I was going to cosplay as Prince Harry!
YOU feel bad?!? I was looking forward to “Waiting For Godot” starring Kid Rock and Scott Baio!
“Dance, Hog, Dance!”
Renovations. When the wrecking balls, excavators and dump trucks show up.
I am a DMV native. This is "unsat" as they used to say in the Navy. I feel this so deeply, along with the WH desecration.
The audacity of his latest move is both galling and pathetic. The center, created to honor a real vs authoritarian, money guzzling, traitor, only needs two renovations to make it legitimate and popular again, remove his name and his board. More appropriation of other people’s products. Loser.
I wonder between the ballroom and the Center will Home Depot have enough gilded crap to meet demand?
The Golden Bordello Tchotchkes line of products from Temu has workers in China working overtime. Shipping may take a few weeks though.
Porbably not from Home Depot. More likely Styrofoam and gold pain from Hobby Lobby.
The only time I go to Hobby Lobby is to turn all the crosses upside-down.
What? You don't want to buy a Wine Mom Font Bible one verse at a time?!?
Everything Trump touches dies. He has poisoned this venue. Let it go. The arts deserve a fresh start preferably in a new facility that hasn't been tainted by the Trump kiss of death. And for goodness sake, do not connect it to the government.
You know how Bayreuth has a Ring Cycle? You know how Oberammergau has the Passion Play? Maybe we could do a for real Wicker Man in a field by the Potomac. You know, have the young virgins in white dance around the Washington Monument? Maybe tell DJT that there is a Virgin who gives great oral sex trapped inside the Wickerman, and we need his BDE to go and bring her out?
And invite Elon to the event. He is in trouble in Europe for deepfakes on his platform. He must have a hidden connection to Epstein's virgin follies
Can we close the White House for business too?
Ta, Gary. Wasn't the Kennedy Center renovated just a few years ago?
One of the first things Trump did when his first term as prexy began was to DEFUND the arts. Rolling Stone Magazine responded with an article headlined "Welcome to Donald Trump's Ignorant America." How right it was.