Since President Trump took over as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in February, artists’ responses have been mixed. Some, including Issa Rae, Rhiannon Giddens and the musical Hamilton, cancelled performances in protest. Others, like comedian W. Kamau Bell and the band Guster, decided to move forward.
Yasmin Williams and Cathy Fink, two musicians with deep ties to the cultural center, emailed the Center’s interim president Richard Grenell directly — but his replies caught them off guard.
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“I’m too busy to confront your vapidness to believe what you read without doing your own research,” Grenell wrote. He told her the Kennedy Center had “zero in the bank” and he “cut the DEI b******** because we can’t afford to pay people for fringe and niche programming that the public won’t support.”
For context, a pair of songs from the musicians he’s swearing at and insulting,
https://yasminwilliams.bandcamp.com/track/harvest-feat-kaki-king-darian-donovan-thomas
https://cathyfinkmarcymarxer.bandcamp.com/track/hold-each-other-up
Trump is what of the where now…???
Trump is the chair of the board of directors of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, he appointed Richard Grenell president of that board, and Richard is being a dick to some very mainstream but talented musicians who have worked with the Center in the past but probably won’t now while he’s still there.
That kinda sounds whats expected from this timeline… (Although I mean, I know jack shit about everyone you mentioned, could be that those weirdos are actually super into the performing arts etc, but I’m sceptical of that to say the least)