The Kennedy Center – now the controversially rechristened “Trump Kennedy Center” – is in trouble. What’s supposed to be a beacon for artistic freedom has been brutally disfigured into a MAGA monument to all things Trump: the board hollowed out and replaced by flunkies, artistic freedom curtailed, and his stupid name scrawled across the sign.
So it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that musicians are reacting to all this as if the building were now highly radioactive. Last week, jazz musician Chuck Redd pulled out of the center’s Christmas Eve concert, resulting in a furious demand for $1 million in compensation from him.
