Posted on 11/10/2024 8:21:12 AM PST by DFG
The Garden Theatre in Houston is facing national backlash after they staged a mock assassination of President-Elect Donald Trump.
The theatre was performing “Assassins,” a show that depicts the assassinations and attempted assassinations of presidents through history.
An actor resembling Trump, dressed in a blue suit and wearing a red hat, walks onto the stage. The actors, all armed with guns, fire their weapons. The room turns blood-red and then, the show concludes.
Logan Vaden, the company’s founding artistic director, defended the production.
“I made the choice in the last 30 seconds of our production to include the assassination attempt of Donald Trump,” he admitted in a Facebook post. “I do not feel the need to go into great detail about the artistic decision that was made, other than it elaborated on the topic of shameful political violence we have always seen.”
If that’s the case, why did the audience cheer when the stage version of Trump was gunned down?
I guess the bloodlust of Vaden and his merry band of gun-toting thespians was not satisfied by the real-life attempts on Trump’s life.
Vaden got especially triggered when critics posted angry messages on social media — and now he’s claiming to be a victim.
He blamed “right-wing social media groups” for sending death threats against the cast and crew.
“All threats against any person involved in our production are being recorded and submitted to the FBI,” he wrote. “These threats are unacceptable and are being treated as true threats.”
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Exit stage Left.
Good, that will certainly help the liberal cause! (NOT).
From the Left
They just keep pushing for civil war.
Free speech, let them continue this kind of political suicide as long as they are within the law.
They prove my tag line true every day.
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Nothing new, they did the same to Bush.
Find out who is paying the freight for their fun times and light them up.
More unity from the left I hear so much about in the media.
Everybody understands and was meant to understand that this production encouraged by example the assassination of President Trump. They do not get to walk this back.
Vaden's "artistic expression" is unacceptable. It is also a clear violation of Federal law. That venue should be shut down.
Typical liberal-think.
Threats against the president are artistic expression.
Threats against the production are dangerous, and will be reported to the FBI.
What the Hell is wrong with people? Such a ‘play’ isn’t art, or really, theater: it’s evil on parade. That its producers chose to use it to showcase their latent homicidal fantasies is not surprising.
But his was not allowed. It was TEOTWAWKI. Remember?
To me this is an act of treason, encouraging the assassination of the President of the United States.
Logan’s the Artistic Director. It was an agonizing decision. But it’s Art.
Then (according their global warmer overlords) all we in the center have to do is burn a bunch of carbon fuels...the oceans will rise...and they'll all drown. : )
Throw them in FED PRISON til Trumps term is over.
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