Jeffrey Brown:
President Trump criticizes what he calls Woke Woke Programming and said: “We don’t like what they were showing.”
On his social truth, he wrote: “Last year, the Kennedy Center presented dredging shows specifically targeting our young people. This will stop.”
The center presented Drag events, a small percentage of its annual program. In fact, Kennedy Center, with constituent organizations, including the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera, has regularly presented the best artists in the world for decades.
Its Millennium Stage offers free performance daily by local, national and international artists. In 2019, he widened his campus and offers with the opening of the range, a series of performance and rehearsal spaces. But now, some eminent artists are away.
Immediately after President Trump’s movements, the artistic advisers of the Kennedy Center Renee Fleming and Ben Folds resigned from their positions. Television producer Shonda Rhimes, appointed by President Obama, suddenly left her post as treasurer. Artists, including actress-commune Issa Rae and musician Rhiannon Giddens, have canceled the next shows.
And the successful production “Hamilton”, which was previously played at the Kennedy Center, announced that it would not come back as planned in 2026. The producer “Hamilton” Jeffrey Seller published: “The recent purge flies in front of all that this national center represents.”
During his recent trip to the center, President Trump responded to the “Hamilton” announcement.