Come on, Lee Greenwood. You know you want to.
Posted on 05/19/2025 4:46:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is hosting the Kennedy Center ‘s leadership at the White House on Monday night, reinforcing how much attention he’s devoting to remaking a premier cultural center as part of a larger effort to overhaul the social and ideological dynamics of the national arts scene.
The meeting of the center’s board in the State Dining Room comes after Trump fired its previous members and announced in February that he’d serve as the board’s chair. The new board, which unanimously approved Trump as its chair, is stocked with loyalists.
Members include White House chief of staff Susie Wiles; Attorney General Pam Bondi; Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance; and Lee Greenwood, whose song “God Bless the USA,” plays at Trump rallies as well as many official events, including during his trip to the Middle East last week.
Trump has called the center’s past programing “woke” and “terrible,” while more broadly seeking to slash federal funding for the arts — complaining that too much programing promotes leftist ideology and political correctness.
In the view of the Republican president and top leaders in his administration, molding the Kennedy Center to his own liking can go a long way toward creating a new arts and social culture nationwide.
Ahead of Monday’s dinner at the White House, the Kennedy Center announced its upcoming lineup, which includes performances of “Chicago,” “Moulin Rouge” and “Back to the Future: The Musical.” The lineup for kids includes a theatrical version of the cartoon hit “Bluey.” The center previously announced that it...
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Just landed one of the premiere ballot troops in the world. Other artists will come to replace ones that nobody cares about. That’s the market
The only “remake” America needs of ‘art and culture’ is to stop funding it with tax dollars.
Culture is a so often overlooked aspect of how progressives control the society.
Andrew Breitbart used to say that politics is downstream of culture. I won’t go so far as to say that politics is unimportant to focus on, but if you’ve got a way to have a significant cultural impact that is clearly the more important effort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future:_The_Musical
Jamie Lloyd was initially engaged to direct the production[11] but withdrew from the project in September 2014 after the workshops, citing creative differences.[12] Bob Gale later recalled that those creative differences were over whether the character Biff should sing: “[Lloyd] thought that a villain would be more villainous if he didn’t sing. For me, that was the dealbreaker”.[
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Come on, Lee Greenwood. You know you want to.
Segue to these Leftist “Judges.”. Just for the hell of it, how about finding a Federal District Judge who still believes in the law. Have THAT Judge issue a blanket, nationwide injunction from other Judges issuing nationwide injunctions.
The results from the Drive-By Media and leftist judges would be fun!
Come on, we would both go to “Trump the musical”
I really would.
I think you meant “premiere ballet troups”-not “ballot troops”...
Which one did they book?
Trump was exactly on point: the Kennedy Center had become increasingly woke and culturally stale, and it was failing, badly. We used to go there often. On New Years Eve the National Symphony Orchestra would present a very enjoyable classical pops concert. Then, about fifteen years ago, they ditched that for a more culturally relevant affair, for D.C., at least, consisting of a worn out bloated Chaka Kahn with her autotune. That’s what the Kennedy Center became, that’s why it was failing, and that’s what Trump is trying to fix.
The AP can’t hide being clowns anymore.
“MAACGA - Making America Art and Culture Great Again”
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Yep, ridding the world of degenerate art once more.
True. Unfortunately, correct ideology doesn’t always correspond with talent or good taste.
Right about ballot groups. I caught that too.
And then decided we could use ballot troops to. insure honest elections. Not insisting that they have to wear tutus.
The tutus could be worn to identify the ballot troops-like a uniform or a badge...
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