🚨 BREAKING: Trump hijacks the Kennedy Center — and the music world is NOT having it.
Artists are pulling out left and right after Trump FIRED the board and named himself the new chairman of one of America’s most revered arts institutions.
🎺 Jazz legend Chuck Redd led the charge, cancelling his annual Christmas concert in protest of Trump’s name going up on the walls.
🎠Then came Lin-Manuel Miranda, who pulled the ENTIRE run of Hamilton’s 10-year-anniversary performance:
“Morally, it was not complicated… Trump politicized the institution. It was a very easy decision not to participate in what that’s becoming.”
🎤 Emmy-winner Issa Rae canceled her sold-out show too:
“It’s an infringement on the values of an institution that once celebrated artists of all backgrounds.”
🎶 Pulitzer Prize-winning singer Rhiannon Giddens walked away earlier this year:
“I cannot in good conscience play at The Kennedy.”
🎸 Rock legend Peter Wolf of J. Geils Band canceled over the “egregious firing ...
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