Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building
  • 339 points DefinitionSuperb1110

    Expect more of this. No actual artists want anything to do with the Rapist in Chief.

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    67 points Logical-Knee-9046

    Emphasis on “actual”.

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    18 points kazh_9742

    If the performance is remembered for being great, it will also have to be remembered for its venue. So & So at the Trump Kennedy Center 2025 won't look good in any decade.

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    25 points The_Barbelo

    I’ve played jazz set for almost 20 years. Trained classically. I also make visual art.

    I can tell you with absolute certainty the majority of jazz musicians are “liberal” and/ or socialist. Same with visual artists. We’re a sensitive bunch. They’d have to force us to be there by threatening our family, and at that point we’d be balls deep in the fourth Reich

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    10 points SuperSaiyanTupac

    A liberal artist, you say? Never heard of such a thing

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    5 points The_Barbelo

    “Wait…water is wet?!?!”

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  • 126 points alternatingflan

    He should have just put up “The Lying POS Felon Krasnov Center for Tacky Arts,” and not desecrate Kennedy’s name worse than what rfkjr is doing.

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  • 546 points Top_Gap_9658

    Let’s cancel the rest of his administration

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    115 points Elpepestan

    Seriously. At this point I'd settle for just canceling his ability to slap his name on everything like a toddler with a label maker. the man couldn't even let the Kennedy Center just exist without making it about himself

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    44 points REMMIT524

    I believe when we go back to normal (“normal”) these things will be removed. department of war? Really? Gulf of America? Cmon

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    30 points Seagoingnote

    As far as I know none of these changes are legally binding, so once they pry the letters off of the Kennedy center it should be fine.

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    17 points melodien

    Hopefully the damage to the facade can be repaired.

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    8 points PDK01

    Like, of the country?

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    5 points Seagoingnote

    I’d much rather we repair the country rather than just the facade of it, but at this point I don’t think we can afford to be picky.

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    1 points melodien

    I'm afraid that is not possible.

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    1 points vague_diss

    I think we need to leave all of it. We need to remember how we got in this mess. If there was any failing with the Biden ministration, it’s that they didn’t immediately try to fix voting and try to purge anyone involved with his last administration or the January riot. We tried to pretend it didn’t happen and that we could just return to the old norms. Our system has been broken, and only a massive overhaul is going to save us from another Trump coming in immediately after this one.

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    -7 points MaestroLogical

    Unfortunately, once something is changed, it's incredibly rare for it to be changed back.

    Add to that, the fact that the Dem's are notorious for 'not disrupting the status quo' and it's highly unlikely anything will be reverted.

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    6 points seestars9

    Nah. These 'changes' have no legal status.

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    24 points Photodan24

    If the Democrats can figure out which way is up and win back the congress, it will happen. If.

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    20 points joeyGibson

    Sadly, that's a pretty fucking big "if". :-( And I say this as a Democrat, who screams at our geriatric and ineffective "leadership" to fucking do something.

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    5 points mmalone1973

    Worse than useless they are

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    1 points CheapThaRipper

    Only from our perspective. From their perspective, they are being incredibly effective at doing what they want to do.

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    4 points DasBleu

    I told my coworker that if the administration wants to be ran like a business, then he should be put on a pip and America should have a special election to fire him.

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    2 points skibbady-baps

    I’m so all for that. 😒

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  • 1063 points AudibleNod

    musician Chuck Redd, says that he called off the performance in the wake of the White House announcing last week that President Donald Trump’s name would be added to the facility.

    A jazz evening with Kid Rock, sounds epic.

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    110 points adjust_the_sails

    The renaming plus the 60 Minutes, Trump hosting the Kennedy Center honors and ACTF breaking ties all basically happening in a week finally got me to cancel my Paramount+ subscription.

    I probably should have done it when they fired Colbert, but he’s still on the air till May so I was waiting. But I just didn’t feel like I could anymore.

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    51 points One_Cantaloupe_9522

    You can always watch Colbert on YouTube instead of giving money to Paramount

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    4 points Vitalremained

    Does YouTube not payout like they do with or non-tv channels? I always assumed it was similar, but never knew. I’m sure it’s probably less than the ad dollars on traditional tv or paramount +

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    1 points One_Cantaloupe_9522

    Not sure but Im assuming he’s getting something from all the millions of views that he gets.

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    4 points absolutefunkbucket

    Yes and Paramount obviously does too

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    168 points alvvayspale

    What’s 30 feet long and has 8 teeth?

    The front row of a Kid Rock concert.

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    14 points TopTransportation695

    A Kid Rock concert is where 90% of the attendees know exactly how much Sudafed you can purchase with the money from a stolen catalytic converter.

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    26 points Expensive_Mail9460

    This made me literally laugh out loud.

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    4 points Exact-Ad-1307

    Steven Segal running security.

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    129 points katzrc

    KISS with Gloria Gaynor. They can play the whole Dynasty album

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    15 points anillop

    Too cheap to pay for Kiss. Gene knows enough to get his money up front.

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    3 points Slum-Bum

    Wait, Gloria Gaynor is MAGA?

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    3 points Polish-Proverb

    She donated $1M to trump in exchange for the honor.

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    48 points TheFoxsWeddingTarot

    Sylvester Stallone on bass.

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    38 points Emotional_Database53

    Stephen Seagal on guitar

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    23 points RottiMami

    Nicki Minaj on vocals.

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    13 points itungdabung

    John stamos on drums

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    20 points Colorzzoo

    Marco Rubio on drugs

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    7 points RobsSister

    Wait - Stamos is maga?

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    4 points OriginalName18

    Stephen to Nicki "I was in all black jazz band, I invented the genre for my black brothers"

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    27 points mountaindoom

    He want the punani

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    16 points The_Mellow_Tiger

    Don't, just dont. No one needs to reminded of that

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    2 points lefthandb1ack

    LOLOLOL I had a cat named Punani in the 90s but I’m just learning about this song today

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    15 points Lfsnz67

    Poop Dogg doing lazy rap

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    4 points InsertNovelAnswer

    Kirk Cameron as MC

    An evening of Jazz with Great American Family Network clips in the background.

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    4 points I_Am_Ironman_AMA

    Playing fatly.

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    2 points PuzzleheadedJury5125

    Budweiser, you've created a monster

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    7 points electric__fetus

    He could stack up a huge pile of gay beer cans on stage and shoot them with a machine gun

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    10 points in1gom0ntoya

    kid rock is a republican and pos

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    26 points jtotheizzen

    I think that was their point lol

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    11 points Ashamed_Golf956

    Kid rock was a has-been D-level celebrity 20 years ago. Now he's just a cartoon figure, like everyone who associates with the immoral, deeply corrupt gangstering the white house. Tryig to usurp the identity of a cultural center federally designated as a memorial to another president is a new low for the utter lowlife named trump. The legislation establishing the Kennedy Center explicitly forbids renaming the center or adding another name to the center. Naturally, the mentallly ill malignant narcissist that is trump ignored the law--as he respects no laws, no protocols, doesn't respect America's democratic foundation, and he doesn't respect anybody unless they give him lots of money. He's sick. He's so insecure and desperate to be admired that he tries endlessly to con people with stunts like this. trump is loathsome.

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    3 points fatpat

    Fortunately, all that shit is coming down once we have a functional adult in the White House.

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    11 points Training-Republic301

    "A jazz evening with kid rock sounds epic"

    I hope you're joking.lmao

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    23 points Bitey_the_Squirrel

    I mean, he’s basically doing red neck scat.

    Bawitdaba, da bang, da dang diggy diggy Diggy, said the boogie, said up jump the boogie

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    17 points tkrr

    Most of which he stole from the Sugar Hill Gang.

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    3 points Full-Curve7436

    Who stole most of their rhymes from NY street mixtapes and performers.

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    1 points tkrr

    Well, Big Bank Hank did. Not sure about the other two.

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    2 points minionofjoy

    Yeah he did!!

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    3 points UKophile

    I taught that to my 5 year old nephew and when he was about 15 he heard it on an oldies station and just lost it laughing.

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    3 points TurnkeyLurker

    With emphasis on the scat 💩

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    2 points ugotmedripping

    I’ll admit I have a morbid curiosity…

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    0 points tryagainlater63

    Trump will now sue for a billion $$$

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  • 44 points Tardislass

    They knew no one would come. I used to attend the free Millennium Stage holiday concerts. Won’t set foot in there until Trump names comes off. 

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    9 points RuralGuy20

    If you want Ford's Theater around this time does annual performances of A Christmas Carol that are very highly rated.

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    6 points Tardislass

    Going to see Guys and Dolls if the weather gods cooperate this weekend. Supporting local theatre who don’t kowtow. 

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  • 200 points Sudden-Earth9281

    Not a fan of Newsome, but we need a president as petty as him to un-Trump everything. And do it in spectacular trolling style. I’m afraid however the next Dem prez is going to be polite and performatively “undivisive”.

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    95 points GluedToTheMirror

    I hope not. Whoever is next needs to spam CTRL + Z like it’s going out of style

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    64 points sambull

    He needs to spam ctrl new fucking deal populism -- so far to the left populism it will make millers little head turn red on nightly news for weeks.

    - medicare for all

    - childcare programs

    - loans on un-taxed 'wealth and assets' (unrealized gains) make those become realized and taxable actions, end this bullshit where banker friends get their buddies money for life with no taxes.

    - citizens united restored

    - ban stock trading and using information to trade stocks while your in office

    Populism wins DNC bs where the cozy up to the rich and want to mend ties status quo loses big.

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    29 points LordWemby

    Yeah that ain’t gonna be Gavin Newsom lol

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    24 points operator-john

    I hope not. He’s beholden to the donor class and says he doesn’t believe in taxing billionaires. We need a fighter that will stand up to these people and represent the working class.

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    8 points LordWemby

    I couldn’t agree more, it’s just that a lot of people seem to think that guy is Newsom. 

    I guess I can’t blame them much, Trump and his administration are genuinely scarring. 

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    7 points TheOmegoner

    His rich donors don’t want that though even if his constituents do.

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    1 points mintmilanomadness

    Thissss

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    8 points Iliketoplan

    Undoing everything will just get us back here, we have to fix what was broken in a way that we can secure it from happening again.

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    11 points Tardislass

    Inauguration Day celebration of taking his name off everything. Unless he pops his cork before.

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    23 points Billy405

    Why can't Newsom haters ever spell his name right?

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    13 points nfuckinsane

    Because they don’t live in the US

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    4 points HoRo2001

    As fun as that would be — I just want it all gone as quickly as possible. No fanfare. Just gone. He has taken up so much space and so, so much of our energy. I would like his erasure to be complete, but quiet.

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    4 points rsmoling

    next Dem prez is going to be polite and performatively “undivisive”.

    Which is in fact how we got here right now.

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    2 points wetballjones

    Personally I think, or maybe hope, that the pendulum is going to swing back a bit harder this time

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    3 points TheOmegoner

    If you look between the stunts he’s a corporate dem who is constantly looking to move the party right instead of representing his constituents wishes.

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    10 points Lfsnz67

    As a Californian he hasn't really governed like that (except bending over for the electric companies)

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    3 points PaladinHan

    Go look at the bills he’s vetoed and reconsider.

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    1 points TheOmegoner

    Really? I think a lot of actual leftists would disagree with that

    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/01/tkpb-s01.html

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    6 points SalsaYogurt

    A lot of leftists will disagree with anything (as a die hard liberal). Newsome is as good as any of them (except Bernie, but that ship has sailed)

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    3 points TheOmegoner

    Newsome being par for the course doesn’t mean anything, the DNC is corporate owned and backed. Did you read anything about what they disagree with? I’d love to hear a centrists take on the issues in that article tbh

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    0 points Development-Feisty

    Oh come on, he vetoed the bill that would’ve made it legal to easily get magic mushrooms in California just in time for Matthew Perry to overdose on ketamine which is legal in California (hint hint, one of these substances has addictive properties and one doesn’t)

    He’s prevented rent control, he has vetoed so many good bills

    it’s not normal for a governor to veto bills

    it really isn’t

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    1 points emanon9046

    What about 50 cent?

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    1 points sigaven

    Newsom is perfectly capable of being normal. He only acts “petty” to rub it in MAGA’s face how horrible they are.

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    0 points adamosan

    We don’t need another petty President. 8 years has been enough.

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    -6 points Icy-Whale-2253

    They don’t call Gavin Newsom “American Psycho” for nothing

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  • 61 points buffalobill36001

    Everything with Trumps name on it needs to be cancelled

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    21 points Oxjrnine

    Not the Trump Toxic Landfill and Trump Manure Processing Plant. They should stay.

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    13 points LustfulEsme

    I want his name struck from everything.

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    4 points rsmoling

    When I finally figure out time travel, he’ll be struck from history entirely.

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    3 points ilikesunglazzes

    Nah. The only thing I want to see with “Trump” on it, is a gravestone

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    2 points BluestreakBTHR

    Manure is useful.

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    1 points Development-Feisty

    The Trump Koala Chlamydia Ward

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    1 points iwishiwasamoose

    He has a tower in Chicago. If you walk on a nearby bridge or along the Riverwalk, you can see people taking selfies with his name in the background. It's disappointing.

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  • 27 points Fit-Significance-436

    Good for him, don’t entertain despots

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  • 11 points ApprehensiveSun5727

    Can't wait to burn every last remnant and memory of this pedophilic goon and all his acolytes. You'll all live in infamy, you pieces of human garbage.

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  • 30 points Jah_Rules

    Everything Trump touches, dies.

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    5 points RnDevelopment

    True, like democracy in the US.

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    9 points anitabelle

    Well he likely signed his contract to perform at The Kennedy Center not the Trump Kennedy Center.

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  • 9 points lotofry

    Kennedy center is complicit. Don’t give them any business until they remove the name.

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  • 9 points Old_Channel44

    Silent night every night

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  • 8 points ted5011c

    Why does the stupid asshole have such a hard-on for the Kennedy center anyhow?

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  • 6 points MasterBlazt

    It's a 'memorial'. Something built in Memory of someone...

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  • 4 points Fandam_YT

    Putting everything else bad about this administration aside, the Trump Kennedy Center is just such a stupid fucking name. It’s already named after a president. What’s next? The Trump Lincoln Memorial? Trump JFK Airport?

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  • 12 points backbypopularsupply

    he is the Grinch if the grinch raped the kids of whoville

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  • 4 points Main-Algae-1064

    Nikki could twerk instead probz.

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  • 11 points texmawby

    If only I had a time machine. I could fix a lot of things for humanity.

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    8 points Lahk74

    Greetings from the past!

    I have a prototype time machine, but I'm still working out the kinks. Currently, I've managed to go forward in time at the rate of 3,600 seconds per hour. I'm working around the clock to make improvements and am proud to say that just last week, my team and I were able to change the LED display from red to green. It's this kind of meaningful progress that gives me hope.

    I wrote the above comment, stepped into my machine, calibrated for 20 minutes into the future, and a short time later stepped out into the future and am now hitting "post!"

    The world of tomorrow is here today, folks!

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  • 6 points Current_Flatworm2747

    Kid Rock standing by

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  • 6 points braille_lover_5555

    Tony danza and dean Cain can emcee

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  • 6 points TheLimeyLemmon

    Can we cut to the part where Trump goes Napoleon and has sculptures of his face put on every building which eventually get pelted beyond recognition with rocks?

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    4 points crasstyfartman

    ATP I’m waiting to wake up and find out he’s carved his head into Mount Rushmore

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    1 points Professional_Echo907

    Oh, he definitely wants to do that. But I’m pretty sure engineers are certain it would cause a landslide that took out either Washington or Lincoln, depending on which side they tried it on.

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  • 6 points overlapped

    What's the best way to support Chuck Redd?

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    1 points improvthismoment

    Buy his albums Go to his shows

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  • 7 points lpenos27

    The Kennedy Center has never been as successful as it is now. Just ask Trump. Another business Trump will bankrupt.

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  • 9 points Living-Restaurant892

    It should have been called off when Trump took over the board

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  • 3 points InclinationCompass

    Chuck Redd showing what integrity looks like. Trump knows nothing about that.

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  • 3 points PassengerOld4439

    Trump is a proven looser

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  • 3 points joefatmamma

    “People” voted for this clown.

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  • 2 points Iribumkiak

    I'm looking forward to attending a concert by Ted Nugent and finally listen live to Wang Dang Sweet Puntang in the Donald J. Trump (and I guess Kennedy) Center.

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  • 2 points tryagainlater63

    Are there any traveling Argentinian tango groups?

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  • 2 points Confident_Chipmunk83

    “Eh fuck it dude, let’s go bowling”.

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  • 2 points Late-Papaya-9367

    Somebody should give him the idea to rename America to Trumperica. UPT

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  • 2 points TraditionalLaw7763

    So did the musicians boycott as well? Or refuse to play? Or was it just the orchestrator that canceled it? Either way, I hope we see more of this. 👍🏼 good job.

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  • 1 points Automatic_Bat_4824

    Trump should be given his own statue, somewhere prominent, with a ringed moat guarded over by inward facing cherubs pissing into the water. And a law should be passed the excludes is from being cleaned, ever — no matter how much bird droppings cover it and no matter how offensive the stench.

    And the plaque, which must be clean and legible at all times, at the foot of the statue should read:

    NEVER FORGET @convictedcriminalpresident

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    1 points Ser-Cannasseur

    You mean cherubs pissing on the statue of Trump. Seems more apt for this degenerate.

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  • 4 points infinitude_

    Americas aura loss has been crazy

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  • 2 points mursemanmke

    Wynton holding strong. ✊

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  • 2 points PensandoEnTea

    All this winning - I can barely stand it

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  • 2 points SithC

    What’s the matter, they can’t book Kid Rock?

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    3 points JamesSmith1200

    Nandi had him booked for a private skin flute show

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  • 2 points 19snow16

    Wait...he had no problem playing until the name changed? It was taken over by Trump months ago, and he was still going to play ,🤷‍♀️

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  • 1 points BeaverMissed

    Luckily, the Military Music Corps of Venezuela is currently looking for a gig.

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  • 1 points solarixstar

    The only reason trump left Kennedy attached was to try to keep it from folding, getting g picked up by private controll and him being banned for life, make the last part happen already remove the creepy from the oval office flush

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  • 1 points hamtronn

    The new future residency of kid rock. 🙄

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  • 1 points BrianOconneR34

    Trump, by namesake, hop in and take over starring and performing duties. Really class it up, jazz flute, and or spoken word.

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  • 1 points Bubbly_Power_6210

    hope they all cancel! one of Trump's more stupid moves.

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  • -1 points Consistent-Leek4986

    good, but unfortunately not his last abomination. 😈

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  • -2 points Arthur_Wellesley1815

    Christmas is back!

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  • -12 points Z28Daytona

    Wonder what his contract stated. He might be in some trouble.

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    4 points KlingonLullabye

    Principles > trouble

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