Posted on 08/19/2017 6:20:21 AM PDT by SMGFan
President Trump is skipping this year’s Kennedy Center honors after backlash from the honorees.
Three of this year’s five award winners, including television icon Norman Lear, singer Lionel Richie and dancer Carmen de Lavallade, vowed to boycott the annual White House reception.
Of the remaining honorees, Queens native and rapper LL Cool J hasn’t commented on whether he would attend, and singer Gloria Estefan pledged to use the event as an opportunity to influence Trump on immigration issues.
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Good move. The left destroys everything it touches.
Sounds like the honor recipients need to receive a little street demonstration distraction to show them that all the flack doesn’t just come from the left.
I would not go where I wasn’t wanted. The only way I would attend is if someone held a gun on me.
Why not honor American creative artists that love and promote American values? Why dole out awards to lefties who spew hatred of traditional American values?
The filth from the left to be honored. Why would anyone with a sense of decency want to attend? It’s a demrat event.
These awards have increasingly become below the dignity of the Office of President. Thankfully, it’s over. More winning for the USA!
You’re RIGHT!!!!
Good move. These self-aggrandizing no-talents need to be ignored as they pat themselves on the back.
How many of these past honorees do you approve of?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Center_Honors
Well, That’s Hollywood.
Wrong ! This is another victory for the left driving us out of the public square. We should ram ourselves in their faces and show up smiling. Make them squirm but never relinquish our right to be there. This is how you get statues removed. When you run away fans let the left own the culture.
Polite way of say, “No, Thanks.”
Watching a bunch of left-wingers self aggrandizing is no way to spend an evening.
Actually you are correct.
I would rather DJT and the First Lady instead honor the same number of normal Americans in place of the pampered nobodies. Small business employers who didn’t abandon when the competition heated up, students who volunteer in service of recovering vets, people who DO things, instead of people who pretend to do things (entertainers). Invite Americans to the WH, feed them, pamper them, fawn over them, encourage them and thank them.
I wouldn’t darken the door of any place named after a Kennedy.
Majority of nation could not care any less about this garbage. Trump should come out and say:
“I’ll let the pampered elite of the entertainment class pat each other on the back. Most of them, long ago, lost sight of what the American people struggle with.”
Good! He should hold another rally so he can piss the media off. Take away from some of the Kennedy Center media
Schedule a competing event the same night and honor true American heroes while making news by saying something truly demeaning about the Kennedys.
Hold a Trump rally in dpowntown DC.
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