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Houston Theatre Cast ‘Assassinates’ Actor Dressed as Trump
Todd Starnes ^ | 11/09/2024 | SMG News Wire

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at toddstarnes.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
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1 posted on 11/10/2024 8:21:12 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

Exit stage Left.


2 posted on 11/10/2024 8:24:34 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: DFG

Good, that will certainly help the liberal cause! (NOT).


3 posted on 11/10/2024 8:24:38 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "Murica!")
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To: DFG
"it elaborated on the topic of shameful political violence we have always seen.”

From the Left

4 posted on 11/10/2024 8:30:15 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

They just keep pushing for civil war.


5 posted on 11/10/2024 8:31:00 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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To: DFG

Free speech, let them continue this kind of political suicide as long as they are within the law.


6 posted on 11/10/2024 8:35:08 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: DFG

They prove my tag line true every day.

L


7 posted on 11/10/2024 8:39:12 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: DFG

Nothing new, they did the same to Bush.


8 posted on 11/10/2024 8:39:51 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DFG
These theaters are never self sufficient.

Find out who is paying the freight for their fun times and light them up.

9 posted on 11/10/2024 8:41:20 AM PST by johniegrad
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To: DFG

More unity from the left I hear so much about in the media.


10 posted on 11/10/2024 8:42:28 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: DFG
Logan Vaden, the company’s founding artistic director, defended the production.

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.

11 posted on 11/10/2024 8:43:23 AM PST by flamberge (It turns out that you can fool most of the people, most of the time.)
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To: Tom Tetroxide
They are only pushing themselves into political oblivion.


12 posted on 11/10/2024 8:46:48 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: DFG

Typical liberal-think.

Threats against the president are artistic expression.

Threats against the production are dangerous, and will be reported to the FBI.


13 posted on 11/10/2024 8:48:23 AM PST by Rinnwald
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To: DFG
Perhaps they can hire Hannah Gutierrez-Reed as their armorer if she's available on “work release.”
14 posted on 11/10/2024 8:58:56 AM PST by Ozymandias Ghost
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To: DFG

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.


15 posted on 11/10/2024 9:00:08 AM PST by drwoof
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To: bigbob
Obamarodeoclown

But his was not allowed. It was TEOTWAWKI. Remember?

16 posted on 11/10/2024 9:02:51 AM PST by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: bigbob

To me this is an act of treason, encouraging the assassination of the President of the United States.


17 posted on 11/10/2024 9:09:01 AM PST by Ronald77
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To: DFG

Logan’s the Artistic Director. It was an agonizing decision. But it’s Art.


18 posted on 11/10/2024 9:10:44 AM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Lurker
Perhaps, in the name of peaceful co-existence, we should segregate the country...giving the left and right coasts to the leftists, the rest to the conservatives.

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. : )

19 posted on 11/10/2024 9:14:10 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: bigbob

Throw them in FED PRISON til Trumps term is over.


20 posted on 11/10/2024 9:15:48 AM PST by Singermom
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