# @occupydemocrats on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DS20nLciMDG
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- **Posted:** 2025-12-29T17:59:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Occupy Democrats (@occupydemocrats) — https://gondola.cc/occupydemocrats

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🚨 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 of staff by the new administration.”

🔥 And Philly soul-rock band Low Cut Connie dropped out of the Center’s Social Impact series. Frontman Adam Weiner wrote:

“This institution has stood as non-partisan for 54 years — until now. I will not perform under Trump’s regime.”

💥 Trump has turned a cultural cornerstone into a MAGA vanity project. And the artists are fighting back — not with press conferences, but with their absence.

🎙️ Kid Rock might want to warm up his vocals — because at this rate, he’ll be the only one left willing to play for Trump.

#BoycottTheKennedyCenter #ArtistsResist #TrumpKennedyCenter #LinManuelMiranda  #SaveTheKennedyCenter

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