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.”
Isn’t the political stunt the illegal renaming of the Kennedy Center?
Confusing…This is how fascism works, there’d be news articles about how people are making things political by refusing to get into the cattle cars, too.
The article should have lead with how this is an illegal renaming.
This is what’s been so frustrating to me is that news outlets that nominally disagree with fascism and Trump in general don’t put things into their wider context and just focus on the minutia of the particular story to the exclusion of The wider reality. I call this sane-washing.
One particular example more or less related to this is when NPR said something to the effect of stopping focusing on Tylenol and instead focus on other causes of autism, as if Tylenol was a cause of autism.
Even they seem to be falling prey. They have lost control of the language.
News outlets fear any legal action from Trump. He will sue for 10 billion, but settle for 10 million…less than it would coat to fight the lawsuit in the first place.
Excellent point. 🎶Land of the freeeeee…🎶
Ugh.
They are threatening to sue for $1mil
In the unlikely event they win, I predict $2mil in donations to the artist.
Hell, I hate jazz and I’d kick in a few bucks
yes but who is going to do anything about it?
the usa has no law and the people still think holding signs on weekends will do anything
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
Not everybody can make it to New York to piss on trump tower. He’s just making it more accessible
The Pedophile Centre for the Performing Arts.
Yep, keep this shit up and the only acts you’re gonna be able to book will be kid rock and snoop dogg.
Little bitch who caved for the wannabe king mad at people who think he’s dumb. More at 11
Fuck these people, I have no tolerance for them trying to take the high road while destroying the country.
These people don’t seem to realize when they lose power we will turn it all back into non-partisan and we will jail and remove all the people who went along with this nonsense.
are you really? history shows you’ll “let bygones be bygones”
Trumps pawn who is currently in charge criticizes someone who voted with their feet.
I’ll be honest, I don’t really care if the name of some building is being replaced from one shitty war criminal to another. It’s strange to name the building after an evil guy in the first place.
Then why do you care that the musician canceled? Both should be equally meaningless to you.
I don’t care they canceled. Nothing in my comment really implies that.
But what are you commenting on?! Did you just click on a random post, with a random comment? Or does your comment come with context? Reading comprehension would suggest that you not only disapprove of the musicians actions but don’t understand rule of law or understand morality.
I saw a post about the fervour over the Kennedy building getting renamed and just decided to share my thoughts.
Your thoughts are irrelevant to the conversation. Do you go into posts about food and say you don’t like cars? No… And now I’m sharing my thoughts on your waste of time and energy comment. So I asked questions that are relevant to your comment trying to figure out your point. But I guess you’re just typing into the void then getting mad when the void types back.
Ah well. Ya live and ya learn. I thought it was pretty relevant.
ok
Sorry liberal
Thank you, I’m just glad you learned something about respecting people. Thanks also for that DM, I know you’re trying and you’ll do better
Not sure what sort of conversation you were expecting by opening with “ok”. I’m just matching your energy lol.
