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Gary Kerner's avatar

Rooms underground with

no windows!?!

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Karmeu's avatar

Oh so good!

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Tom Chaney's avatar

Bf

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Megan Macomber's avatar

Les Mis? Hasn't everyone within a five-hundred mile radius who halfway wanted to see Les Mis already seen it, like, eight times? What--if anything--is he thinking? That MAGA folks without TVs or internet access from rural Arkansas are gonna get a covered wagon together for the reverse migration to NYC...to see Les Fucking Mis?

Those folks sure would stop in Pennsylvania, terrified by rumors of marauding death squads within The Big City, offering them tacos from trucks and bodega oranges and really nothing like the old fun scary NYC of the 1970s and 80s.

Trump is a salesman's salesman, in the sense that he offers NO competition at all. He would have been The Producers had he realized his dream, only minus the laughs and plus the actual (according to his VP) Hitler.

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Olga Skorapa's avatar

Seems like the Prez is unfamiliar with Brutalist architecture and its stylistic requirements. He's going to kitch it up bigly. Should be a hoot, mixing styles to conform to his "aesthetic", eh?

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Terri Ring's avatar

And now we have word, from his NYT fangirl Maggie Haberman, that Diaper Don claims he supposedly was found to be a “musical genius” as a child, but his mean old daddy discouraged him developing his wonderful talent. How I wish he had tried, and ended up as a sad old failed musician instead of a megalomaniac dictator. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/arts/music/trump-kennedy-center-music.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5U4.kjo7.TQzBLtfrAibH&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Judi Laing's avatar

When he announced he was taking over, I wondered when he would 'redecorate' so I guess that's coming up and then, watch for the name change to Trump Arts Center or something ridiculous...

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Merle Kessler's avatar

Branson East, here we come! Osmonds. Old Testament On Ice.

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HanaNoir's avatar

Why does he look like he's giving an invisible Putin blow job in that first picture??? He makes my brain hurt so much.

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ResistanceFictionistaBlondeIQ's avatar

Dead Pavarotti: keep my name out of your filthy mouth

Dead Elvis would probably go along with it.

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Icky Burl's avatar

Pathetic. Sorry right wingers, good art requires EMPATHY.

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mr_snarky's avatar

trump kennedy center honors - sounds like a bad reality show/snl skit waiting to happen.

Premise of the show: what washed up artist/comedian can kiss trump's arse the hardest?

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BJ Zamora's avatar

This photo session is simply the epitome of this self aggrandizing idiot. Perhaps he realize he couldn’t pay enough to pay people to sit in the seats and pretend to cheer. I saw the tiny segment of the video of the empty Kennedy Center with him acting like Pinochet in Argentina or Mussolini in Italy.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Susie Wiles? Any relation to the Susan Wiles who, at one point in her career, was Chief of Staff in Chump's second administration?

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Coffee and Chaos's avatar

Hoo boy. I cannot wait to see the season lineup. It's gonna be a doozy, I bet.

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Rain Robinson's avatar

Fpotus, whiner in chief. Has he ever said anything publicly that wasn't one loooong whine? No. His takeover of the Kennedy Center must remind him of his Apprentice glory days, when nobody criticized him like we do today. I can see him showing audiences "bigger than anyone has ever seen", re-runs of The Apprentice, over and over. And he will threaten to have MuskX primary Republicans in Congress if they don't attend.

Some day a thousand books and movies will marvel at how a petty, narcissistic, megalomaniac, tyrant had billionaires elect him president, to push their Project 2025 agenda for destroying the US. His name will be up there with other major tyrants, because before we get rid of him, he and his minions will be responsible for millions of deaths worldwide. Horribly, sadly, a tragedy very likely to happen.

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Terri Ring's avatar

If he doesn’t manage to vaporize the whole world in a nuclear war, that is. At any rate, it’ll be another civilization writing about the Fall of the United States. Sorry, I’m feeling old and cranky tonight.

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Rain Robinson's avatar

I thought about adding that very note, about humans in self-extinct mode. You are not alone in being cranky!

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