20-year Christmas Eve tradition canceled at Kennedy Center in protest of Trump’s name

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kennedy-center-trump-name-building-christmas-eve-canceled-b2890309.html

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  2. I can only think back for 4-5 years the fresh shit Biden got dumped on him daily from every news outlet all because egg prices didn’t drop fast enough and he stammered over words.

    Had he put himself on the side of a building DURING his presidency would have been ending for him.

  5. I still can’t understand how Republicans just continue to let him walk all over the Constitution and corrupt everything he touches. I don’t even think Al Capone was this evil.

  6. There used to be a building in downtown Vancouver BC that had the Trump name on it. It was a glorious day when it was taken down.

  7. Looks like MC Scammer has become the first president to die in a theatre and bankrupt it at the same time

  8. The official name is the Kennedy MEMORIAL Center for the Arts.

    Why is Trump putting his name on a memorial? Is he dying??

  9. I’m glad. He doesn’t deserve it. He could care less about the arts.

  12. People should be egging his name on the facade every. Single
    Day.

  13. I MIGHT think about leaving tRumps name up there IF he and JFK could trade places.

  14. I had not heard of him until I saw this article. I’ve now got Chuck Redd’s music playing on shuffle. He’s on Apple Music and Spotify. 🙂

  15. Trump must get off on destroying things that Americans love and enjoy. He’s a perpetual spoiled 9 yr old who’s gonna throw the other kids birthday cake on the floor just to make it all about him.

    “Musician Chuck Redd, who has led the holiday tradition for over two decades, called off the performance after the White House announced last week that the president’s name would be affixed to the building.”

  16. It’s wild how laws are just optional.

    “The center was established as a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy following his assassination in 1963, with Congress passing a law the subsequent year.

    This legislation explicitly forbids the board of trustees from designating the centre as a memorial to anyone else, or from placing another individual’s name on its exterior.”

  17. Is the White House response something like, “Failed jazz ‘musician’ Chuck Redd, apparently in response to President Donald J. Trump’s unprecedented success in rebuilding the crumbling Kennedy Center, has decided to spare the world his annual cacophony of shit by cancelling his Christmas Eve appearance. The plummeting sales of his terrible albums just reinforce what a nobody he is.”

  18. And he’s too stupid and egotistical to get the message

  19. I’m so proud of the artist for doing this. I wish they would all do this.

  21. Will the next Democratic – any party other than Republicans really – promise to remove from all public buildings and spaces and whatnot any mention of Trump once elected?

    We have to demand this of the next nominee. Period.

  22. Well, when the president slaps his name on a memorial like it’s a steakhouse, even Santa skips the gig Kennedy Center Xmas lights stayed dark for the first time since ’05.

  23. Trump is like a dog who pees on everything by way of a calling card.

  25. *“The center was established as a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy following his assassination in 1963, with Congress passing a law the subsequent year.

    This legislation explicitly forbids the board of trustees from designating the centre as a memorial to anyone else, or from placing another individual’s name on its exterior.”*

    so WHY IS HIS NAME ON THE BUILDING RIGHT NOW??

    ffs.

  26. From above, “”When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert.” Heartfelt thanks to Mr. Redd and all the others who are canceling performances there. Trump is a disgrace. It is sickening to see his name above that of the intelligent, heroic young president who gave his life for our country.

    A 5-time draft dodger has some nerve defying the law that memorializes an assassinated president, a war hero, just to glorify himself, a man who will go into history as America’s WORST president. Knowing Trump, he probably plans to remove JFK’s name completely from the Center before the end of his term. Illegal? What does Trump care about the law? He knows that no one will stop him.

  27. Does he understand what you have to get to have a memorial?

  28. That fact that he put his name IN FRONT of JFK’s, is just beyond insane. What a complete asshole.

  30. Who are the people who actually put that up? I would have refused. What cowards. Just like the construction crew who ripped up the white house. Do these people now feel any conflict with doing Trumps bidding and ruining our memories and sacred buildings?

  32. After Trump is out, we can sue him to pay for removing all this crap, right?

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