The Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Farts
Why would any sane, educated person support a cultural institution that has been raped by a convicted criminal and twice-impeached imbecile?
Ever since the blood-sucking "Trump" leech attached itself to the prestigious John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Center began its decline. Massive walkouts by artists and performers led to a massive drop in philanthropic gifts and ticket sales. AND, oblivious or ignorant of his own role as the destroyer of the Kennedy Center, the Moron-in-Chief blames everyone else but himself.
A simple experiment is worth considering: Remove the Trump parasitic name off the building and evict the convicted criminal from its board and let the Center run itself as it has always done, and the ongoing collapse would immediately be reversed.
For now, symphony orchestras, Jazz bands and ballet troupes have been replaced by hillbilly and bluegrass bands. And unless you were born in the backward highly inbred moonshining white trash backwaters of Appalachia (like a certain JD Dunce), you "ain't" gonna attend these nativist and naive expressions of human art. But Donald Dumb doesn't understand the difference. The dumb idiot thinks people come to the Kennedy Center to see his name on the wall.
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Trump Washes Hands of Kennedy Center ‘Deficit’ After Takeover
Julia Ornedo
Mon, January 26, 2026
President Donald Trump attempted to wash his hands of the “massive deficit” plaguing the storied cultural institution that he has attempted to rename after himself.
Trump, 79, passed the blame for the plummeting sales at the Kennedy Center.
“People don’t realize that The Trump Kennedy Center suffered massive deficits for many years and, like everything else, I merely came in to save it and, if possible, make it far better than ever before!” he wrote in a Truth Social post on Monday.
President Donald Trump distanced himself from the Kennedy Center's plummeting sales. / Donald Trump on Truth Social
The once-venerated arts institution has struggled to sell tickets since Trump remade it in his image in February.
In October, nearly nine months after the Trump takeover, a Washington Post analysis of ticketing data found that sales for the three largest performance venues at the Kennedy Center—the Opera House, the Concert Hall, and the Eisenhower Theater—were the worst they had been in three years.
Data from Sept. 3 to Oct. 19 last year showed that only 57 percent of tickets had been sold for the typical production, including “comps” or tickets given away to staff or the press, compared to 93 percent in fall 2024 and 80 percent in fall 2023, according to the outlet.
Trump renamed the cultural institution after himself without congressional approval. / Anadolu / Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images
That’s thanks in large part to renowned artists and performance groups pulling out of scheduled performances—many in protest of the Kennedy Center’s MAGAfication. This month alone, the center was hit with a slew of cancellations.
Grammy-winning soprano Renée Fleming backed out last week due to what the center described as a “scheduling conflict.” The Martha Graham Dance Company, the oldest such group in the U.S., also canceled its April show without providing an explanation. The Washington National Opera similarly ended its five-decade residency at the Kennedy Center earlier this month.
But Trump’s claim that the Kennedy Center has “suffered massive deficits for many years” has been disputed by former staffers at the institution.
Donna Arduin, the Kennedy Center’s new chief financial officer, claimed in an email to staff in March that the organization was struggling with a $100 million deficit. But staffers told the Post that the figure was inaccurate.
“The statement that we have an operating deficit of over $100 million is inaccurate,” a staffer with direct knowledge of the center’s finances told the outlet. “Our audited FY23 financial statements, which are publicly available via ProPublica, show that this figure excludes essential nonprofit revenue streams such as contributions, grants, and endowment support.”
The staffer added: “Nonprofit organizations are designed to rely on philanthropic and institutional support in order to fulfill their mission. Using an ‘earned revenue minus expenses’ framework oversimplifies the picture and applies a for-profit lens that doesn’t reflect how nonprofit business models work.”
In December, the board Trump appointed announced it would rename the venue as the Trump-Kennedy Center despite needing congressional approval to do so.
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