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Randy Shulman's avatar

Great job. I’ve been covering it as you know for 47 years. I will no longer cover it. Nor will I set foot in it. Our opera critic of 31 years has said she will no longer attend WNO performances there. This infantile move will cost them.

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Joe Jackson's avatar

By "them" you mean of course the hundreds of musicians/actors/artists (like me) that work at the KC. And by "them" you certainly don't mean Trump & his acolytes, who could give a shit if the whole building gets swallowed up by a sinkhole.

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Kindler's avatar

Trump doesn’t even realize this is him telling the world he is a needy, pathetic little child.

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Katharine Hill's avatar

Ugly and gross and against the law! Glad you got the pictures to prove our case.

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Lance Khrome's avatar

Yet more desecration and profaning of what we all thought to be consecrated places, duly named for public servants who earned and deserved such honors...and then this Creature from the Black Lagoon emerges to cast all this aside in order to affix his accursed name — like the mark of Cain — upon OUR heritage, ffs! Fuck this despicable subhuman, deserving only of a tormented death and burial in an unmarked grave.

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Kindler's avatar

Harry, as the discussion continues about the responsibility of members of the military to disobey clearly illegal orders, it’s worth noting that civil servants are bound by similar rules.

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Brianna Amore's avatar

Genuinely surprised they didn't make Trump's name ten times larger and in gold.

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Nancy's avatar

At least in gold.... Maybe that's yet to come!

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Sperrett's avatar

A memorial, like the one trump just attached his name to, honors a person in death. Just sayin....if only there existed an intrepid reporter to ask him about his demise

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Lynda Phoenix's avatar

He's probably going to refer to his fake, made up assassination attempt.

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Frank Hawkins's avatar

I live in CT and used to drive past the Trump Parc Stamford condo every day. Until Jan 2021, when his name was removed and the shadow sandblasted away.

that day will come for the Kennedy Center, the Institute of Peace, and many other things that are being "renamed." And it will be as satisfying as the day I saw his name on the Trump Parc Stamford in the morning, but it was gone by nightfall.

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Victoria Brown's avatar

Am so glad I took my

children, all teens at the

time, to see the real

Washington, DC. Not a

Trump in sight or

thought.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

“Trump” and “thought” in the same sentence!

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Victoria Brown's avatar

🤣 Sorry, how foolish of me.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

Not at all—I love a good fantasy!

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Lynda Phoenix's avatar

So they've just illegally defaced a National memorial? (Add to that that it looks incredibly stupid). The people who have gone along with this, approved it, sanctioned it and made it a reality all need to spend some time in jail (and that goes for the Trump board that was evidently muting anyone who tried to speak up in desent.

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Steve Smith's avatar

At least it will be easy to remove

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David J. Sharp's avatar

Hopefully by a group of immigrants.

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oya atashkarian's avatar

well the Kennedy family should tear it down it was illegally put up!!!

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Teddy Partridge's avatar

Vandal and felon and rapist.

These words best describe our current President.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

I’d leave a trenchant comment … but I’m due at Donald J. Trump Safeway to buy a grocery or two.

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Bruce F Cole's avatar

"Distrustee" should be a word.

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Madeline's avatar

Brutal. I never thought I would miss the days when this "trust instrumentality of the federal government" enjoyed only benign neglect from politicians for most of the year - except for the KC Honors of course.

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Uncle Toby's avatar

Trump belongs in a straitjacket...

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