Kennedy Center turns into shit. Thanks to the crapmeister.

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uncgriff said:
Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover - The Washington Post https://share.google/rsOTggqLWtPWAxQ8r

Shocking news.
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Everything Trump touches dies

www.rawstory.com

'Truly shocking': Kennedy Center insider stunned by extent of sales collapse due to Trump

Under the stewardship of Donald Trump, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts is seeing a ticket sales collapse not experienced since the year following the Covid pandemic.In fact, current numbers are worse.According to a Friday morning report from the Washington Post, since...
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finesse said:
Not surprising. Considering how he eats, he doesn't even have taste in his mouth.
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I compare him to the tasteless crass and crude Al Czervik ( Rodney Dangerfield ) crashing the exclusive Bushwood Country Club and upsetting the elite members in the movie Caddyshack.
 
heelinhell said:
I compare him to the tasteless crass and crude Al Czervik ( Rodney Dangerfield ) crashing the exclusive Bushwood Country Club and upsetting the elite members in the movie Caddyshack.
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Not the Al Czervik of the movie, but a sinister Al with no sense of humor.
 
donbosco said:
Wasn't this the goal?
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I know that because I'm just now seeing this as it's been bumped, I'm way late in replying.

I don't think making the Kennedy Center shitty was the goal. I think it was the inevitable result, but not the actual goal.

My take is that we have to remember how much Trump is motivated by the fact that the NYC "cultural elite" rejected him once he came to prominence in the 1980s.

I think that Trump's goal in taking over operations of the Kennedy Center is to force those in the cultural elite to accept him whereas previously they've rejected him.

But what he doesn't get, and almost certainly never will, is that even when he can force himself into the room, those who are legitimately in the spaces he wants to be still recognize him as "nouveau riche" due to the tacky way he comports himself and will simply move to different spaces rather than accept him.

What's happening to the Kennedy Center is essentially the old "idiot gets money and tries to buy his way into society but is still rejected" trope writ large.

(Of course, now putting his name on the building/center is a way of trying create something that will outlast his presidency, although I'm sure it will be changed back as soon as a Dem is in the WH again.)
 
WaynetheDrain said:
This shouldn’t surprise anyone. We’re talking about a businessman so bad at business that he actually bankrupted a casino.
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Trump reminds me of Blanche in A Street Car Named Desire... " I've always depended upon the kindness of strangers"

In Trump's case he has always depended upon the kindness of his daddy, shady bankers, and Putin...
 
SnoopRob said:
I know that because I'm just now seeing this as it's been bumped, I'm way late in replying.

I don't think making the Kennedy Center shitty was the goal. I think it was the inevitable result, but not the actual goal.

My take is that we have to remember how much Trump is motivated by the fact that the NYC "cultural elite" rejected him once he came to prominence in the 1980s.

I think that Trump's goal in taking over operations of the Kennedy Center is to force those in the cultural elite to accept him whereas previously they've rejected him.

But what he doesn't get, and almost certainly never will, is that even when he can force himself into the room, those who are legitimately in the spaces he wants to be still recognize him as "nouveau riche" due to the tacky way he comports himself and will simply move to different spaces rather than accept him.

What's happening to the Kennedy Center is essentially the old "idiot gets money and tries to buy his way into society but is still rejected" trope writ large.

(Of course, now putting his name on the building/center is a way of trying create something that will outlast his presidency, although I'm sure it will be changed back as soon as a Dem is in the WH again.)
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I posted that earlier and agree 100%
 
heelinhell said:
I posted that earlier and agree 100%
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Indeed you did.

I think the difference between Al Czervik and Donald Trump is that Czervik knows he isn't wanted and simply acts out to tweak those who have rejected him while Trump believes he can get the folks who have rejected him to accept him if he just gains enough money/power and is surprised anew when it doesn't work. In essence, Czervik is self-aware of who he is and how he's perceived and Trump is blinded to his own reputation by his intense narcissism.
 
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