Trump47 First Week & Beyond Catch-All

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Zoo_View said:
I was with a UNC and North Carolina gem a couple of nights ago……the great Bland Simpson…..Bland is 76…..he looks and sounds 10-15 years younger than our current POTUS.
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Wow, so happy to hear that about Bland. I was fortunate to have him for creative writing classes at UNC. He was really good to me when I needed someone to talk to after a relative of mine attempted suicide.
 
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Priorities. Most presidents wouldn’t have time for a second job or even a board chair role.

I will be interested to see who accepts a Kennedy Center Honors award during this administration. For instance, Trump famously adores Elton John and tried to get him to perform for him during his first Administration (Elton demurred, but would he accept a Kennedy Center honor (he wouldn’t be performing)?).
 


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With so many genuinely concerning stuff his Administration is up to and so many unqualified people in government roles, what’s one more unqualified person? Let him have it and focus on the avalanche of important stuff.
 
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With so many genuinely concerning stuff his Administration is up to and so many unqualified people in government roles, what’s one more unqualified person? Let him have it and focus on the avalanche of important stuff.
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A STATEMENT FROM​

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts​


“Throughout our history, the Kennedy Center has enjoyed strong support from members of congress and their staffs—Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. Since our doors opened in1971, we have had a collaborative relationship with every presidential administration. Since that time, the Kennedy Center has had a bi-partisan board of trustees that has supported the arts in a non-partisan fashion.

While we are a living memorial to President Kennedy, we are also a unique public-private partnership. The Center is supported by federal annual appropriations for the upkeep and maintenance of the building as a federal memorial, or approximately 16% of the total operating budget. Support for the Center’s artistic programming comes from ticket sales, donations, rental income, and other revenue sources.

The Kennedy Center is aware of the post made recently by POTUS on social media. We have received no official communications from the White House regarding changes to our board of trustees. We are aware that some members of our board have received termination notices from the administration.

Per the Center’s governance established by Congress in 1958, the chair of the board of trustees is appointed by the Center’s board members. There is nothing in the Center’s statute that would prevent a new administration from replacing board members; however, this would be the first time such action has been taken with the Kennedy Center’s board.“


An event at risk from perusing the schedule?:

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I dunno. I will say their schedule of events is quite robust. Looks like a lot of work.
 
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Maybe we rename the position the Reichsminister of Public Enlightenment and Propoganda?
 
Wheels81 said:
I wonder how many performers will boycott the Kennedy Center.
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Message from Ben Folds earlier this afternoon.
 
I can’t wait to see what the Kennedy Center calendar looks like.

I’m hoping for MAGA on Ice starring Laura Loomer, Nancy Mace & Marge Greene,
 
Which thread can I post FUCK GOOGLE, how can I trust a map system that can't get the name of the Gulf of Mexico correct.
 
336Heel said:
The Kennedy Center doesn't have an ice rink.... YET.

I'm foreseeing a Lee Greenwood Kennedy Center Residency.
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“… Trump’s takeover of a cultural institution should not just be a source of amusement, especially since the president has also promised to change the center’s programming. The moves put him in the company—historic and current—of tyrants, not auteurs.

Classical music is rarely front-page news, and the move took the Kennedy Center by complete surprise. The cultural center in Foggy Bottom, after all, hosts a leading symphony orchestra and a major opera company and is hardly a center of political fights.

… The jokes swiftly faded when, a few days later, Trump appointed Grenell the Kennedy Center’s interim executive director. The jokes fell completely silent when, on Feb. 12, the Kennedy Center announced its new trustees, installed to replace trustees fired by Trump. Those now installed on the board of trustees include Vice President J.D. Vance’s wife, Usha; Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles; his deputy chief of staff, Dan Scavino; White House Presidential Personnel Director Sergio Gor; and Allison Lutnick, the wife of Trump’s secretary of commerce nominee, Howard Lutnick.

… I’d hate to be alarmist, but the president of the United States is invoking the language of a certain German regime that, in the 1930s, banned what it labeled “Entartete Kunst,” degenerate art.

The Nazis wanted German culture organized neatly under the government’s control. Soon after taking power, this regime made its preferences known to Germany’s myriad publicly funded theaters, opera houses, and concert halls. It also created the Reichskulturkammer (Reich Chamber of Culture), under which culture in Germany would operate; Joseph Goebbels was appointed the chamber’s president.

Soon German culture—for so long the envy of the world—became more and more constrained as practitioners and artistic products, especially books, were banned, while other practitioners, from conductors to painters, engaged in self-censorship or left the country. That’s how Thomas Mann ended up in Pacific Palisades. In his novel Mephisto, Klaus Mann—Thomas’s son—masterfully portrays the careerists who thrive in autocracies, while talent withers.

And the urge to control culture didn’t die with Goebbels and his ilk. Wanting to control culture is, in fact, the hallmark of authoritarian regimes.

The Cold War was characterized by Eastern Bloc regimes’ attempts to govern all culture and, in the process, ensure that undesirable expressions of it were weeded out.

Every novel Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote was at immediate risk of being banned, and the Russian author constantly faced the risk of imprisonment. In Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel was kept under constant surveillance and denied jobs worthy of his talent. The artists the regimes deemed acceptable, by contrast, were well-looked-after by the respective countries’ cultural organizations. Untold numbers of artists less known than Solzhenitsyn and Havel suffered the same fate. …”
 
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