Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building

"The Kennedy Center" didn't criticize Redd for cancelling, Richard Grenell who is a far right wing MAGA republican and was appointed to the position by trump is the only one who criticized him.

Wording it as they did is disingenuous given the reality, like there's a consensus of a group of people at the Kennedy center. It's just a MAGA cultist. It always is.

Thank You Chuck Redd!!!! You made the right decision. Stand by your decision, do not waver. You are an American hero!!
Also I like that they still refer to themselves as The Kennedy Center, even while criticizing Redd’s decision.

“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.”

Well done to the Kennedy Center for self-fucking themselves on future bookings with this stunt. Nothing says "come play at our venue!" like suing the talent.

It's going to be Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, and some shitty country artists for them moving forward. Fun!

Typical fascist regime. In the past the statement would have been something like, "We're sorry that you were unable to join us...." "We hope that in the future...."

Now it's just, "You are a traitorous pig for not worshipping our living Jesus...."

No artist is under obligation to cooperate with treasonous pedophile propaganda. He had a contractual obligation to the Kennedy Center, not the Trump-Kennedy Center. Had he known it was a MAGA Pedophile venue, he would have refused the gig. Treasonous Pedophile MAGAs don't get to enjoy Christmas.

If he loses the lawsuit, I will personally contribute to his fine, and I won't be alone.

Chuck Redd booked The Kennedy Center, not the center for pedophiles who shit their pants

MAGA alters agreement, gets angry

The law explicitly prohibits the board of trustees from making the center into a memorial to anyone else, and from putting another person’s name on the building’s exterior.

Yeah, because that's clearly been working so far...

demanding 1 million dollars from a jazz musician.

i hope no one ever agrees to play The Kennedy Center again.

It's weird - this admin set out to "own the libs" and by that, they mean, annoy normal people.

When normal people refuse to engage with them, the RW trolls then clutch their pearls and feign outrage.

They really kept both The's? smh. God that's tacky.

The name makes it sounds like Trump was shot dead too.

What a stupid thing.

The fonts don't even match ffs. They couldn't even get that part correct.

> the donald trump memorial center

"How are the Joseph Stalin Memorial Stadium bookings going?"

Hey, Orange Jackass, this is what's commonly known as "suffering the consequences for your actions."

Eat my balls, a free citizen can fuck off when they choose

*Dick Grenell

I told my sister that she can't bring her son to my house for Christmas because he is an insufferable MAGGOT. She came without him and he was PO'd. I hope he doesn't sue me for a million dollars.

Yes, by all means, let’s just keep bringing more attention the the backfire with a failed misdirect.

Can we all stand outside the Kennedy center singing springtime for Hitler?

While I appreciate the idea behind the resignation, the history of my country, Italy, teached me that "not being part of" something is a statement that can go down bad in history: when the left parties left our parliament during Mussolini's rise, they just keep acting like the fascists they were, but without even the minum disapproval.
I don't criticize the musician, but sometimes it can be better yo be there and be vocal, so no one can just forget.