MSNBC's culture critic Rebecca Ritzel on the degradation of the Kennedy Center by the Malignant Fascist, as artists refuse to perform there:
"The president, who is also now the board chair for the Kennedy Center, convened a meeting of said board on Monday. In a recording of the meeting shared with The Washington Post, Trump and members said they’d like to see “Camelot,” “Cats,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Hello, Dolly!” and “The Phantom of the Opera” featured at the Kennedy Center. Speaking with reporters, Trump said, “We’re going to get some very good shows.”
There are a number of practical problems with this wish list, the first of which is that none of those musicals are touring in North America (although a tour of “Phantom” does launch in November). And if the Kennedy Center were to try to mount its own nonunion productions, it would run into a brick wall of standing labor contracts. [snip]
The president, in an Evita-like photo-op on Monday, stood in the Kennedy Center’s Opera House presidential box, arms outstretched as if there were hundreds of fans below him instead of a handful of handpicked board members.
“It won’t be easy, you’ll think it strange,” the eponymous character Evita sang in the opening of her anthem for a new Argentina. She’s absolutely right. The changes Trump is proposing won’t be easy. And as anyone who knows show business could tell the president, it’s also very, very strange."
(photo: The tyrant has found his balcony. Chip Somodevilla, Getty)
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