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What’s crazy is he was able to secure all the corporate donations for this thing, yet the poor Kennedy Center needs to be demolished because he cannot secure donations to keep it alive.
For people who don't know, the Kennedy Center had a large team of people whose job it was to get enough donations to keep it running.... IIRC something around 100 people, and under Trump's direction, that team was more or less completely dismantled.
The previous director of the Kennedy Center was a very rich man, I think a billionaire, who had personally donated millions to the Kennedy Center, and Trump got rid of him.
Trump did everything he could to sabotage all existing sources of funding for the Kennedy Center.
It's hard to describe in words what a pathetic loser Trump is. He can't stand to have somebody whose name is in any way elevated above his own. He'll destroy any cultural institution and anybody else's happiness just to get the tiniest bit of honor for himself.
It must be done by performance art that includes horrendous odors and the kind of flashing lights that cause seizures.
I've got a proposal for Disney for what to do with the former Stitch's Great Escape/ Alien Encounter attraction and the Trump animatronic from the Hall of Presidents.
I wish I could vote you all the way to the top of Lemmy
And every audience member must wear a cilice belt locked on to each thigh during the performance and for two additional days after.
And now Trump owns a Kennedy so I guess he showed them not to look down on his tacky ass. I’m surprised he doesn’t dig up JFK and RFK and have them to tea in his precious ballroom. Another captive audience forced to listen to him ramble while Natalie giggles in the background.
Thank you for sharing this
As far as I know, the Kennedy Center's donation problems didn't really start until after a judge told him they couldn't put Donald Trump's name on the building.
Not quite, the Kennedy Center's problems started when he first put his name on it and replaced the board with sycophants.
The large amount of existing donors stopped providing funds, and the team responsible for getting donors was replaced by idiots trying to use Trump's disastrous name.
Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.
Oliver Kornetzke
Well he didn't, congress decided we should all help pay for it to the tune of a $billion IIRC. If you're from the US you're paying for it.
He doesn't care about the arts. Especially since he couldn't put his name there.
Wait is that really something he's floating or are you joking about this? Because I honestly can't tell anymore...
Sadly, it is a thing he has floated.