This year, in honor of the holiday season, jazz drummer and vibraphonist Chuck Redd canceled his annual Christmas Eve performance at the Kennedy Center.
Redd has helmed the holiday concert for 20 years, but declined to appear this year to protest President Trump’s decision to illegally add his name to the institution without congressional approval. The Kennedy Center now bears the awkward name, “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.”
“When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” Redd told the AP.
Trump’s apparatchiks were furious. Kennedy Center spokesperson and regime stooge Roma Daravi fumed, “Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn’t courageous or principled — they are selfish, intolerant, and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people.”
Kennedy Center officials said they plan to sue Redd for $1 million. Richard Grenell, a longtime Trump sycophant who is now the Kennedy Center president, shared a post about the threatened lawsuit on X and huffed that “we will not let them cancel shows without consequences.”
Richard Grenell
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The left is boycotting the Arts because Trump is supporting the Arts. But we will not let them cancel shows without consequences. The Arts are for everyone - and the Left is mad about it.
