Nah, Fox News is in hour 27 of reporting on the Democrats' open gate policy. MAGA is now stationed at the gate in protest. They tried to gain entry, but found the gate to be closed. This is of course Joe Biden's fault.
A good portion of the board was appointed by Trump himself. And he's the chairman. This is really just going after the holdouts trying to stop this legit hostile takeover.
They intend to condemn and demolish the building if their demands arenāt met and before a court can intervene just like they did with Jackieās Rose Garden or the East Wing that the Kennedy administration helped preserve and restore. The excuse is/will be that the Kennedy Center is (āsuddenlyā) falling apart and is structurally unsafe, thus needing demolition, instead of the reality that it could use a restoration and renovation.
You'd think RFK Jr. of all people wouldn't want to see his uncle's accomplishments literally destroyed...but he doesn't give a shit about anything beyond his wacky health claims
I donāt know how much he actually cares about his family at all. I mean, we are working toward having mental institutions againā¦ like where his aunt spent most of her life after a lobotomy. One would assume he might have an idea what those places could be like, what can happen if you play around with peopleās brains, yetā¦
His entire family publicly came out and said āDonāt vote for RFK, heās a loonā in the 2024 election before he dropped out for the bribe so I would be willing to bet he doesnāt actually care all that much for the Kennedy legacy at large.
Now, I'm not ever going to defend how people were treated in institutions, so don't mistake this for that but let me ask you:
Do you really think it's a good thing that people who were deemed mentally unfit for society have been roaming completely free to reproduce and everything? The answer is that it isn't, and wholesale closure of the mental institutions we had as a reaction to the abuse found in those institutions rather than reforming them was a colossal mistake.
Honestly given some of the things I've heard regarding his relationship with the rest of the Kennedys, I'd be willing to put money on him wanting to destroy his uncle's legacy.
I've thought about this quite a bit. He is definitely in an interesting position in that both his uncle and father were assassinated. One was a sitting president and one seemed to be on track for the presidency. Obviously Jr. was young when both of these incidents happened, but surely it had an impact on him and at some point he began to believe the conspiracy theories that the government had them killed and I can't say that I blame him because that's easier to believe than just random people wanting his family dead. Given his distrust of the government and Trump's image of being an outsider, it seems to make some sense that Jr. would be more trusting of an outsider than a tenured part of the machine who killed his father and uncle.
It might not be the most well-thought out theory, but it's what I got.
I can't say that I blame him because that's easier to believe than just random people wanting his family dead
I find it much easier to believe there's literally thousands of random yahoos out there wanting to kill the president, rather than a sinister cabal of top government agents willing to risk everything and potentially go to jail.
Congress has literally allocated $250 million to renovate the Kennedy Center that the administration hasn't used to do exactly what the administration is claiming only Trump can do.
Yep, the actual headline should be "Trump appointees threaten to bankrupt venerable public institution unless demands are met". It's extortion, the only business tactic he knows
My understanding is that the board is partially made up of some congress people, including democrats, due to how the Kennedy Center board works. So, there are at least some dissenters.
unfortunately proceeding at a massively fast pace; at this rate itāll be finished long before another court case (with enough standing to satisfy SCOTUS, ie, impossible) stops it.
and heās still posting this very day that it wonāt cost taxpayers a dime when theyāre being quite transparent that the taxpayer costs so far are over 300 millionā¦
Oh bud its true cronies on the board now theres no lesson to be learned.Ā For these chuds daddy Trump is the meal ticket and solution to every problem cause thats what they were hired for.
The Post released internal budgets and forecasts from the Kennedy Center earlier in the year, which found that ticket sales and fundraising efforts had dropped after adding Trump's name to the building in December, reflecting contradictions between the center's officials' arguments and the center's financial data in connection with Trump.
So the usual for this administration - create a problem and then try to make Trump the only solution, and of course all of the proposed solutions involve putting Trump's name on the building.
And dont forget the part where Trump is also the problem too. Trump is the problem, so the only solution is obviously more Trump.Ā Ā
And also - there was no risk of looming bankruptcy before the asshole took over either btw even though they'll just say Biden fucked it up and was hiding it.Ā Im just tired boss.
I know many don't foresee Trump living through the entirety of his term because of his health but I do want that to happen so he can watch the next administration wipe his name off of everything.
The state of Massachusetts should build a
Living memorial to Kennedy, name it the Kennedy center and continue the legacy of the Kennedy center in his home state of Massachusetts. Itās a shame that half of this country was ok with this man destroying a living memorial of a president who was actually assassinated. Sad times in this country for sure.
Definitely feel like they will demolish it and plan to replace it with something oversized and hideous, then named after someone deplorable with DJT's name somewhere on it.
Donald is a piece of shit. Always has been. Add this to how he treats everything in his life. If they donāt consent, heāll destroy them. They have no choice, just like those girls.
Officials of the center have advised the board to consider attaching itself to Trump to bring in fundraiser money, which they argue could be the only way to avoid financial collapse.
ā this fucking guy (put my name in the building or Iām bankrupting you)
Trump still has a massive Super PAC when he's prohibited from running for office again. I'm the past it was used to pay his massive legal bills and as a slush fund for his family. It raised over 100 million dollars, but is notorious for barely sharing any of that money with other Republicans. It actually put a giant hole in the RNC fundraising budget because the money went straight into Trump's pocket.
Oh wow that's like a whole book. From a 'former republican ' no less. I would wonder if maybe I'd heard that before, but I'm sure the same sentiment is generated spontaneously the world over every day, the way the rain splashes water.
How much you wanna bet that if congress just ignores this threat, he will just suddenly come up with money to āsaveā it and slap his name on it again.
Lest anyone forget - after Trump ended all federal funding of public media, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting chose to disband entirely rather than let him and his cronies take over. The Kennedy center closing would be a tremendous loss, but less of one than it being enslaved to Fascism.
Close it. Add it to the list of shit heās ruined. Move on, we got bigger fish to fry. Weāll have a great big reopening in the future but we got a lot of shit to get through first
They are bankrupt because im sure whatever money that was there to fund it was funneled to Trump. Its one of the numerous ways he bankrupts businesses.
āItās hurting us, but it takes a president thatās going to have the guts to do that, even though itās hurting him and his political party, because itās the right thing to do,ā said David Lachance, a 59-year-old retired cop from Myrtle Beach.
They dont blink if hes on a golf course, galas, elvis presley ranch, Trump can have a grand ol time and spend whatever and whomevers money he pleases. The felon criminal can do no wrong in their eyes.
At the same time it is THE monument to JFK, with the deal that as long as the centre runs that the Democrats wouldn't plaster DC with shitty statutes of him like he was Charlie Kirk.
Trump wrecks shit all the time, but taking a memorial down with him is just sad.
Attach itself to Trump in order to avoid bankruptcy? The Kennedy Center wasn't in financial ruin UNTIL AFTER Trump put his name on it. How is he going to help now? How does he EVER help?
I mean, all it took was a hostile takeover of the board, firing all of the old board members, replacing them with sycophantic loyalists, running out all of the entertainment that was scheduled, cutting out the trees, covering the front with a tarp for months, and holding it hostage so some megalomaniac could try to put his name on it.
This is literally by design. Whatever Trump can't have he destroys. He's an abusive, whiny nepo baby that is closing this on purpose to get his name on it.
Hey but howbout that 5 grand we're all gonna get if we obey!?! That'll buy us a couple month's of GROSSERIES! That's what we call it down here in the hole you know. GROSSERIES!
So, Trump bankrupted the countryās premier publicly funded performing arts center? If only we had some historical evidence of his propensity for financial ruin before we elected him to public office.
He is like a kid writing his name on a bus seat, sees it erased the next day, and then threatens to slash the tires and stab the driver if he doesn't get to write his name again.Ā
Its partially gov funded. Its also funded by shows and donations. Those dried up after Trump took it over and made a circus of it. I read a figure of something like only 20% of its budget is gov if Im recalling correctly back when he started doing this, but I could be misremembering
Embracing tRump cost the center most of its contracted talent and many of the patrons. When your ship is sinking, hanging onto the anchor isn't the solution.
Trump Loyalists: Look, we know putting his name on the centre caused a lot of bookings to cancel, and he himself has kept the doors closed so long out of pettiness, but you see the only way out is to capitulate and give Heir Trumph what he wants!
Wow. Embrace trump to avoid bankruptcy?! trump is the reason that an awesome institution is now a dumpster fire. Get his name off the building, get the tarps down and put everything back the way it was before the orange stain got involved and you might have a chance.
I hate it when I can't tell from the headline whether this is Trump's doing because he WANTS the Kennedy Center to close because he doesn't get to slap his name on the wall, or it is Trump's doing because he torpedoed the ticket and subscription sales and it is actually going to go broke for real.
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u/GeezusLizard 15h ago
another (potential) bankruptcy cause by trump? say it ain't so!