‘Doomed to fail’: Trump cautioned his ‘cultural coup’ is backfiring
An analyst Thursday described how President Donald Trump's "cultural coup" has backfired among artists and his growing attacks on the arts are "doomed to fail."
A wave of artists have cancelled their performances after the renamed Kennedy Center and the Trump administration has threatened to sue them for millions over resisting the current regime — yet that won't stop artists from defying his oppressive moves to try and silence them, Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton wrote.
"For more than 50 years, the Kennedy Center has served as the capital’s premier cultural center — until now," Digby Parton explained. "Donald Trump, who has no concept of the meaning of either art or culture, had his flunky board commandeer Kennedy’s memorial by renaming it 'The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Performing Arts Center.' It’s bizarre that any living president, much less one who is still serving, would want his name on a memorial to a dead man, particularly one who is still revered by many Americans. But Trump is single minded in his desire to mark his territory no matter where his tinkle, to use a famous Nancy Pelosi term, splashes."
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