A veteran jazz ensemble and a New York dance company have canceled events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, intensifying the fallout at one of the nation’s pre-eminent arts centers after it was renamed to include President Trump.
The center had previously promoted two New Year’s Eve performances by the Cookers as an “all-star jazz septet that will ignite the Terrace Theater stage with fire and soul.” But those performances, like an annual Christmas Eve jazz concert hosted by Chuck Redd, are now canceled.
The Cookers did not give a reason for the decision in a statement on Monday that said, “Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice.”
But the band’s drummer, Billy Hart, told The New York Times that the center’s name change had “evidently” played a role. He acknowledged that the group was concerned about possible reprisals.
It wasn’t renamed. The office of president doesn’t have the power.
Fuck all of this collaborationist media gaslighting horseshit.
I’m sure Who-the-fuck-is-Lee-Greenwood is available.
What in the ever loving FUCK is GOING ON THERE in the US. This is the kind of silly shit you expect from a third world dictatorship. He really just… renamed the fucking thing and put his own name first. That’s just utterly disrespectful, not to mention distasteful in general.
It used to be you had to at least die in order to get your name put on things….
When they say “everything he touches turns to shit” they mean literally everything.
Serves them right for putting that Nazi’s name on the building!
Serves them right for putting that Nazi’s name on the building!
The Cookers did not give a reason for the decision in a statement on Monday that said, “Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice.”
It sounds like they gave a reason to me.
GOOD. MORE PLEASE.
Username checks out.
I thought it was funny
Wants more people to cancel their shows at the Kennedy Center.
Wants to be fucked in the ass.
You: they’re the same picture.
Person makes a joke about the comment and the commenter’s username.
You: let me get my dopamine by being critical and an absolute cunt.
lol. My comment was a meme and also a joke. Why is everyone on the internet so mad?
prole
I’d bet Kid Rock is available.
He could have Ted Nugent open for him.
Tomorrow night he’ll be Kid Jazz
So much winning.
This motherfucker is the Jordan of bankruptcies. I mean failing at a Casino was already Master-level, but this takes the pie.
People say the name was changed illegally. I’m out of the loop on this, why is it illegal for their name to be changed?
The Kennedy Center was created with that name by an act of Congress: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/76i
Much like the Department of Defense, it must be renamed by Congress.
I have to say, even if they’d changed it legally, it would not diminish my disgust one bit. To name something so public, that you had no part in creating, after yourself is the ultimate … tastelessness, fuck you to the plebs, loser move, etc.
It’s also aggravating because you only name a memorial after dead people.
Thanks! I didn’t know this. Especially about the department of defense.
Donald J Trump is the most unpopular U.S. president the modern world has ever experienced, so one could argue that a) by smearing his shitty name on a once-respected venue, Trump made the place political and b) by literally changing the name of the venue, the artist can claim they are no longer legally bound by their original contract, which was with the John F Kennedy Performing ArtsCenter and NOT the Donald Trump by way of the JFK Performing Arts Center.
Among other reasons, board members who would’ve dissented were forcibly muted in the videoconference meeting during the “unanimous” vote.
Wait what? That is old Soviet Union crap. Can I get more details on this? Not in Congress I presume?
Muted and ignored, then blamed when they dare to protest. Classic DARVO. I hope every lawsuit filed against this admin gets the time it deserves and no easy settlement.
The name is actually set in a law, hence this lawsuit: https://washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/new-lawsuit-challenges-illegal-renaming-of-the-kennedy-center/
Sec. 2 Policy. (a) It is the policy of the United States to prosecute to the fullest extent permitted under Federal law, and as appropriate, any person or any entity that destroys, damages, vandalizes, or desecrates a monument, memorial, or statue within the United States or otherwise vandalizes government property. The desire of the Congress to protect Federal property is clearly reflected in section 1361 of title 18, United States Code, which authorizes a penalty of up to 10 years’ imprisonment for the willful injury of Federal property. More recently, under the Veterans’ Memorial Preservation and Recognition Act of 2003, section 1369 of title 18, United States Code, the Congress punished with the same penalties the destruction of Federal and in some cases State-maintained monuments that honor military veterans. Other criminal statutes, such as the Travel Act, section 1952 of title 18, United States Code, permit prosecutions of arson damaging monuments, memorials, and statues on State grounds in some cases. Civil statutes like the Public System Resource Protection Act, section 100722 of title 54, United States Code, also hold those who destroy certain Federal property accountable for their offenses. The Federal Government will not tolerate violations of these and other laws.
Send Tom Mac Donald
lol.
Lmao, even.
