Donald Trump’s plans for Kennedy Center – now the controversially rechristened “Trump Kennedy Center” – haven’t worked out. An institution designed as a beacon for American cultural excellence has been brutally disfigured into a MAGA monument to all things Trump: the board hollowed out and replaced by flunkies, artistic expression curtailed, and his stupid name scrawled across the sign.
Over the last few months, a raft of artists have canceled performances at the center for political reasons. Most prominently, renowned composer Philip Glass called off the world premiere of his symphony about Abraham Lincoln, saying:
