Closing The Kennedy Center Is Spiteful And Stupid -- And May Be Illegal Too

The Washington Ballet Plans to Move Its ‘Cinderella’ Production Out of the Kennedy Center

Jacquelyn Martin/APThe Washington Ballet is moving its spring production of “Cinderella” away from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, according to an email about auditions obtained by NOTUS.It’s the latest in a string of withdrawals of planned performances from the Kennedy Center, which the Trump administration has been aggressively revamping. On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that the venue would close for two years f…

'We’ve Got to Stop This': Maria Shriver, Kennedys Erupt After Trump Shuts Down the Kennedy Center—and His New Insult Only Escalates the Fallout

Donald Trump can’t bully the relatives of John F. Kennedy into supporting his takeover of the slain president’s Washington, D.C., memorial. Family members have spoken out with blistering messages in response to the impending two-year shutdown of the performing arts center, which 47 is sure to take personally. Maria Shriver, niece of John F. Kennedy, and Jack Schlossberg, grandson of John F. Kennedy, are furious after Trump’s announcement. (Phot…

Trump announces plan to close Kennedy Center for 2 years coinciding with July Fourth celebrations

Trump’s plan to shutter the Kennedy Center for two years, amid ICE repression and gaudy “America250” spectacles, exposes the deepening assault on culture and democratic rights.

Trump wanted to drop JFK from Kennedy Center, advisers stopped him

President Donald Trump reportedly wanted to rename the Kennedy Center simply the “Trump Center,” but advisers convinced him to settle on the compromise “Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center,” his biographer Michael Wolff claimed. Trump has reshaped the Washington, D.C. cultural institution in his image, taking control of its board, adding his name without congressional approval, and announcing a two-year closure for renovations. The move h…

'It should be me': The 'absurd' reason Trump wanted to fully rename the Kennedy Center

Donald Trump's efforts to take over the Kennedy Center have generated no end of controversy, but according to writer Michael Wolff, inside sources said that he wanted to take things even further than he has.Early on in Trump's second term, Trump purged the Kennedy Center's Board of Trustees and replaced them with loyalists, who late last year approved a measure to add the president's name to the art center's name. Despite such a change being ill…

Closing The Kennedy Center Is Spiteful And Stupid -- And May Be Illegal Too

Donald Trump has been a PR-focused man since long before he was president, but his desecration of the Kennedy Center is one topic he hasn’t been able to wrap a positive spin around. And his unpopular moves might even be illegal.Negative headlines have swirled around the “Trump-Kennedy Center” since the president began his hostile takeover of the performing arts facility. After Trump stacked the board with loyalists who quickly elected him as cha…