Ben Folds Responds to Performers Leaving Kennedy Center
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Now about a dozen performers have looked at Donald Trump and his phony board at the Kennedy Center, which he vandalized and calls the Trump Kennedy Center unlawfully. And these performers are saying, we quit. We are not going to be performing for this regime. Also, attendance is down so much. It's like no one's even showing up to this place, this propaganda vandalized center by this Trump regime. So here's the latest right here. Washington National Opera decided on Friday to move out of its longtime home at the Kennedy Center. And they've been at the Kennedy Center since the 1970s. And they're saying goodbye there. Now we have a list. of at least 10 additional acts that have canceled at the Kennedy Center.
Hamilton, of course, the Broadway musical. Chuck Redd, the leader of the Kennedy Center's annual Jazz Jams Christmas. The Cookers, the jazz supergroup, canceled a pair of shows. Stephen Schwartz, the Wicked composer, withdrew as host of the Washington National Opera Gala set for May 16th. You have Issa Rae, the Insecure star, canceled a sold-out March 16, 2025 stop. Bella Fleck canceled a trio of concerts with the National Sympathy Orchestra scheduled for February 2025. Rhiannon Giddens, the Grammy-winning musician, canceled the May 11, 2025 concert at the Kennedy Center. Low-cut Connie, the Philadelphia Rockers, called off a February 2025 performance. Peter Wolf, Christy Lee, Doug Barone, Balloon, Amanda Room, and others.
And then, of course, earlier in the year, you had Ben Folds immediately stepping down in February as an artistic advisor there at the Kennedy Center, Shonda Rhimes, Renee Fleming, and others. And you remember, you may remember, we interviewed Ben Folds back in February when he resigned right away. As soon as the Trump regime started, said that they were changing that board and they were going to be intervening with their propaganda. He was like, I am gone. He resigned from the National Symphony Orchestra as Trump seized the center. His statement was, given the developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today, I'm resigning as the advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra, not for me. He said, and again, you may remember that interview that I did with him, which has since gone mega viral over two and a half million views.
Here's what some D.C. residents are saying about the vandalizing of the Trump, Trump calling it the Trump Kennedy Center and vandalizing it by plastering his name on it. Here, play this clip.
Feeling like democracy died today.
What prompted the mass resignations of performers at the Kennedy Center?
This is history happening today and we should all be shocked, shocked that a felon, a convicted felon and a thug and by all means a grifter has just stuck his name on top of a national monument. This is a desecration.
Here's what Jim Acosta had to say when he was there that day. Let's play it.
Well, here we are at the scene of yet another crime committed by Donald Trump. He has vandalized the Kennedy Center by putting his name on it. And he just needs to understand that, first of all, he can't do this single-handedly. Only Congress can authorize a change of name to the Kennedy Center. Yet he doesn't care about the law. He doesn't care what is appropriate. He's gone and vandalized the Kennedy Center, which is, we should note, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. It was named after President Kennedy after he was assassinated. Donald Trump should show some respect for that. But of course, he doesn't do that. And this is what needs to be said. We, the American people, are not going to call the Kennedy Center the Trump Kennedy Center, just like we're not going to call the Department of Defense the Department of War or the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
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