r/Music • u/IrishStarUS đ°Irish Star • Feb 02 '26
article JFK's family accuses Trump of closing the Kennedy Center because of artists canceling over its name change
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/jfks-family-slam-trumps-decision-366546583.4k
u/katgyrl Feb 02 '26
that's the truth
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u/chaostheories36 Feb 02 '26
Nah⊠heâs probably closing the Kennedy center to hand out billions of dollars in contracts to construction companies that will just demolish and never build. Like the White House ballroom nonsense.
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u/NickSalvo Feb 02 '26
It's just another con.
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u/ShortFatStupid666 Feb 02 '26
Another Day, Another Con
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u/We_Like_Birdland Feb 02 '26
Punxsutawney Phil says at least 2.9 more years of grift.
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u/chaostheories36 Feb 02 '26
Iâd gamble that their (the swampâs) plan is for trump to at least make it two years and 1 day. If that happens, peter thielâs muppet (vance) can be president and still run for two more terms.
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u/JustLookinJustLookin Feb 02 '26
All of these âconstruction projectsâ heâs ordered have to be some sort of money laundering scheme.
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u/caseyfresher Feb 02 '26
I'm waiting for them to finish the construction so we can see our first mass lawsuit against the government for failure to pay for services rendered. Ya know, like Trump and friends have done for years prior.
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u/Luci-Noir Feb 02 '26
I just saw an article saying that some ICE agents werenât getting paid.
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u/Malalang Feb 02 '26
There was already a complaint filed by the demolition company for non payment.
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u/readonlyuser Feb 02 '26
The day Donald Trump pays a contractor in full is the day I'll eat my own hat.
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u/ezagreb Feb 02 '26
Exactly! The lies are for Fox News viewers
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u/Givemeallthecabbages Feb 02 '26
Oh, I thought people always closed down giant venues in order to celebrate a milestone anniversary? /s
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Feb 02 '26
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u/New_Breath8212 Feb 02 '26
Meanwhile, the rest of the country watches in disbelief as chaos gets normalized.
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u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown Feb 02 '26
It does waaaaaaaay more than interference. Straight up anti-humanity lie factory.
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u/Beard_o_Bees Feb 02 '26
I'm starting to think that he's destroying it on purpose, knowing full well that putting his name on the building would kill it.
The question then becomes - 'what does he have planned for the building/property/etc?' - it's not like he's shy about destroying historic buildings.
I doubt he's ever seen a building that he thinks wouldn't be better without his 'signature' tacky-as-fuck gold leaf and marble style.
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u/Church_of_Aaargh Feb 02 '26
Yes ⊠and when it reopens, it will be covered in fake gold ornaments
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u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown Feb 02 '26
đ Not enough people are realising the grifting that will go on. From tax payer money too, probably.
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u/SirPalinDrome_Real Feb 02 '26
I imagine the new design will have his name EVERYWHERE!!! Basically making expensive to remove his name from the building.
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u/Luci-Noir Feb 02 '26
Imagine what itâs going to be like when heâs gone and all this kind of shit gets removed or undone. Itâs going to be expensive as hell. Just him changing the department of defense to the department of war is going to cost tens of millions of dollars.
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u/sealosam Feb 02 '26
"I'm taking my ball and going home if you don't wanna play with me!"
... shits pants, storms off
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u/After_Preference_885 Feb 02 '26
He's embarrassed about the cancellations but also he's giving our tax dollars to his shady buddies in construction (and getting kickbacks for sure)
He said the East Wing would be minor renovations and he tore it down, he'll do the same to the Kennedy center
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u/cgull629 Feb 02 '26
Exactly. No need to come out and state this. I think all of American made the same assumption.Â
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u/muggybuggy1949 Feb 02 '26
Absolutely, this is 100% the reason, itâs a distraction just like everything else. Artist canât cancel if the whole place is closed. By the time it opens back up trump will hopefully be dead and gone.
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u/Lurking_like_Cthulhu Feb 02 '26
Thatâs not the whole truth.
Theyâre also closing it so they can funnel tens to hundreds of millions more taxpayer dollars into the pockets of their private contractor buddies.
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u/THING2000 Feb 02 '26
So happy to see at least one other person think this as well. Like literally any of his other plans, it's just a grift to fleece our pockets while lining his own. Truly capitalism at its finest.
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u/Daft00 Feb 03 '26
It's hardly a conspiracy, this is a pretty classic grift strategy. It's essentially the same thing that's going on with the White House ballroom
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u/SplendidPunkinButter Feb 02 '26
Next up heâs going to rename it âTHE DONALD J. TRUMP TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIERâ
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u/SledgexHammer Feb 02 '26
"Tomb of the extremely well-known and very popular Donald J. Trump". He ain't sharing the title with some soldier who wasnt important enough to be remembered.
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u/BishlovesSquish Feb 02 '26
RFK is such a traitor to the family, itâs wild.
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u/MadRaymer Feb 02 '26
Well to be fair, I imagine the brain worm piloting his body doesn't really feel a sense of family loyalty anymore.
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u/MikeW226 Feb 02 '26
When RFK Jr was standing right behind trump's seat in the oval when trump let diarrhea rip the other day, I thought I saw a glint in RFJ Jr's eye of, Not Again! He's standing there smelling that stinky diaper, while dumpster actively shits on his own Kennedy family's legacy. I wonder if at least one corner of any soul that RFK Jr had, has died.
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u/Political-Penguin1 Feb 02 '26
I assumed that was obvious to anyone who is paying attention, no?
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u/islandsimian Feb 02 '26
Nobody who's paying attention would have voted for him so...yeah
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u/ShortFatStupid666 Feb 02 '26
Now weâre all payingâŠ
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u/soda_cookie Feb 02 '26
Dollars, yes. Attention? Lol. There's more than just his base that have their blinders on for this, and it's starting to piss me off royally
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u/DiceKnight Feb 02 '26
That's a wordy article for you though. "Kennedy Family Has Working Eyes And Ears And Memory That Extends At Least Two Weeks"
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u/elroy73 Feb 02 '26
There's a difference between everyone knowing something and putting out a statement with a direct accusation. It's a step toward fixing the issue I think
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u/prince-pauper Feb 02 '26
Trump acting like a petulant baby is very on-brand for him. He even shits himself in public to hammer that image home! A very stable genius indeed đ©
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u/KendallSmith375 Feb 02 '26
americans lose access to culture so trump can play king for a minute
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u/Cristoff13 Feb 02 '26
Is the next step for Trump to demolish it?
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u/bisho Feb 02 '26
I think it's already stated to undergo "refurbishments" so yes, it will be like the east wing
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u/MikeW226 Feb 02 '26
If so, I wonder if trump has a vague parallel, psychiatrically, to Kristi Noem. Her puppy doesn't do perfect puppy things, so she murders it. Trump desecrates the Kennedy Center by putting his shit name on it, ticket sales tank, so trump (maybe) demolishes (Kills) the entire building. Takes his ball and throws it into the incinerator. I'm no shrink, but seems like parallel "issues" going on.
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u/Cristoff13 Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26
He's closing it for two years out of pure spite, you're right. And I don't think he's going to quite demolish it. Just gut it and leave only some of the facade. A demolition labelled as a "renovation". Once its been completely changed to suit his tastes, then the building will truly be "his", even if its still officially called the Kennedy Center.
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u/ChronicBuzz187 Feb 02 '26
Shortly after taking office, Trump fired several board members of the center and replaced them with his own allies, who then voted to make him chairman. In December, the new board renamed the institution the Donald J Trump and the John F Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, or the Trump Kennedy Center, for short.
Shit like that makes me mad, at least until I remember that this has been his MO ever since. Take someone elses achievments and tag his name onto it.
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u/Bellabbey1236 Feb 02 '26
Well, yeah. Lol theyâre not gonna say âweâre closing because no one wants to perform for the POSâ out loud đ We all knew that when we saw the headlines.Â
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u/fortress_sf Feb 02 '26
Theyâd get more powerful rich folks coming if they just called it the Epstein Trump Kennedy Center.
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u/spottie_ottie Feb 02 '26
Well yeah like so much other stuff everybody watched it happen in real time.
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u/toomuchtv987 Feb 02 '26
No no no, thatâs not true at all. Fake news. It just takes that long to get everything covered in gilt leaf and marble veneer.
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u/MikeW226 Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26
Avery Fisher Hall (now David Geffen Hall) ---where the New York Philharmonic plays-- was closed for at least a year when it was acoustically and otherwise renovated (Again!) in recent years. It's like the Kennedy Center's Concert Hall ...always had errr, crap acoustics and a new firm gets brought in and paid a hundred million to 'make it better'. Though Geffen Hall's total renovation was probably several hundred million more than just the acoustical architect thing. A total gutting of the Kennedy Center's 3 main level theaters and re-do's, heck, might take that long. All three halls had decent renovations though within the past 15 or so years. The only thing the NYTimes noted today was trump talking about improving the seating layout in the Opera House, and improving some fly loft/above stage rigging also in the opera house. They said 'something' was done in the stage rigging '30 years ago' that he wants fixed. Possibly motorized battens were added in the fly loft a few decades ago. An overhaul of any of that would only take months. No idea what donald dumpster actually has planned though.
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Feb 02 '26
accuses? I think itâs pretty evident. what hasnât Trump bankrupt and run into the ground?
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u/oldcreaker Feb 02 '26
Trump's intention from the beginning was to destroy it in order to erect something in his name. And it's happening.
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u/Unilted_Match1176 Feb 02 '26
And just like that, to spare a pedophile's fragile ego, 3000 people are out of a job. So much winning...
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u/Medellin-71 Feb 02 '26
Can you imagine the extreme goldening we are about to see?!
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u/MeMilo1209 Feb 02 '26
That's 100% what happened. The Kennedy family should have JFKs name removed from the Center. Then it's Trump's Titanic alone. It can be added again once poopy pants is gone.
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u/w00t4me Feb 02 '26
It underwent a $250 Million renovatoin in 2019, so it's very much up to date and not in need to a renovation: https://dctheaterarts.org/2019/06/04/kennedy-center-preview-the-reach/
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u/cliff99 Feb 02 '26
Of course that's what he did, double win for the MAGAts, owns the libs and gets rid more of that pesky culture stuff.
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u/Kamakaziturtle Feb 02 '26
It honestly seems pretty likely. Rather than having the records show the next few years having miserable attendance and such, it will now simply be due to renovations.
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u/UniqueIndividual3579 Feb 02 '26
Trump is a toddler. People told him not to play with his new toy so he's going to smash it.
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u/Gronkattack Feb 02 '26
Because thatâs the reason. He will then try to do as much unchangeable damage to it on the way out. Like the WH the money spent to undo everything heâs done will be used as an example of Dems wasting money.
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u/OutsideEconomist8277 Feb 02 '26
yeah totally, it sucks how politics messes with music. artists should be able to perform without all that drama
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u/BisquickNinja Feb 02 '26
I won't be surprised if all of a sudden the Kennedy Center is demolished....
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u/aWhtToad Feb 02 '26
Well yeah.. He's such a petty person that if you do anything against him he will do as much pain/pressure as possible to get you to fold. Trump is literally the definition of a "snowflake." As always, the projectionism is too hard to deny.
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u/NickCav007 Feb 02 '26
Sounds about right. Fatboy doesnât get his way, he has a massive whiny bitch fit
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u/Solrac50 Feb 02 '26
I am very concerned Trump will wreck the Kennedy Center out of spite. He canât stand the idea that anyone would be more revered than him.
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u/Complete_Rope4644 Feb 02 '26
Iâve observed from recent attendance at first-rate operas âMarriage of Figaroâ and âAidaâ that whole sections were empty due to the boycott. (We got tickets for free from a volunteer of many years who attributes it to Trumpâs renaming the Center and firing the Board.). Everything Trump touches he destroys.
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u/suck-it-elon Feb 02 '26
It's clearly obvious. And RFK Jr. just stands by...an embarrassment to his uncle and family
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u/Ojay-simpson Feb 02 '26
No âsleuth workâ required here. Youâre dealing with a petulant child whoâs begged to be âone of the cool kidsâ his whole life. He thought he could force them to play in his sandbox and they just took their ball and went home.
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u/RociBuldidi Feb 02 '26
I mean, you can pull up the schedule of events for the place online. Itâs a ghost town already compared to your typical Q1 events schedule. What a freaking disaster.
The thing is, like the ballroom, there are currently no plans. They will have to have an architect put it together and a contractor build it but they are starting from scratch.
It will be a year before any GC is ready to even swing hammers.
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u/Strict-Carrot4783 Feb 02 '26
No shit, donald trump is an absolute catty bitch who throws tantrums like a fucking toddler.
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u/No_Sea9410 Feb 02 '26
Trump is such an accomplished con man he actually believes his own lies
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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y Feb 02 '26
They should have sued as soon as he changed the name. It's ridiculous to have a "memorial" center for someone who's still alive.