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 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.”

  • Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    You know… this is the first time I saw the tacked on “Donald Trump” they didn’t even manage to match the font of the original name. They somehow did a worse job then “The Ichy & Scratchy & Poochy show” did in the Simpsons.

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      19 hours ago

      Everything about this administration, starting with Taco, is just so pathetic.

      Every headline I read about all of these people and their ideology, what they say, and how they execute their roles just screams: “pathetic”.

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        16 hours ago

        Don’t forget tacky. I’m pretty sure if Putin is really pulling the strings, he’s not just dismantling America from the inside out, he’s making it a complete laughing stock on the international stage for the rest of America’s future. Nobody will ever have trust or taste in the Americam way of life, making America, the grossest-looking second-world country since the USSR.

        He’s not just going scorched earth doctrine, he’s salting the earth, too.