WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the Kennedy Center on Friday fiercely criticized a musician’s sudden decision to cancel a Christmas Eve performance at the venue days after the White House announced that President Donald Trump’s name would be added to the facility.

“Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure — is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution,” the venue’s president, Richard Grenell, wrote in a letter to musician Chuck Redd that was shared with The Associated Press.

In the letter, Grenell said he would seek $1 million in damages “for this political stunt.”

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    efforts to save this national treasure

    Oh please do get all the way fucked. Trump like a kid with a can of spray paint is tagging up his name everywhere because he knows he’s going to die soon, and he also knows that we’re going to piss on his name and grave when he does

    He’s getting the “Nancy Pelosi’s Schmear” special for eternity

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      Not everybody can make it to New York to piss on trump tower. He’s just making it more accessible