Tell musicians to boycott the Kennedy Center until Trump's name is removed!

Legendary musician Chuck Redd started a firestorm when he cancelled the Kennedy Center’s traditional Christmas jazz concert in protest of Donald Trump adding his name to the center.

“When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” said Redd in an email to the Associated Press.

The Christmas Eve concert has been held every year for nearly two decades — but Trump’s illegal and narcissistic attempt to steal Kennedy aura and remake D.C. in his own image was enough to prompt a cancel.

Many artists have called off Kennedy Center performances since Trump took over including Issa Rae, Peter Wolf, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Tell musicians to boycott the Kennedy Center until Trump's name is removed!

These acts of resistance may seem trivial, but they’re devastating psychological blows to Donald Trump. He desperately wants to be associated with the class and grace of the Kennedys, to be a member of high society and aggrandize his image.

Cancelling these concerts turns his victory to ash in his mouth. What is the point of taking over the Kennedy Center if he doesn’t get to attend its traditional Christmas concerts? The allure and dignity of the Kennedy Center is tarnished if nobody will play there. It’s just another institution that will have been hollowed out and corrupted into a pale mockery of what it once was, and he knows it, and it eats him alive.

This stuff is all he cares about, and making sure he can’t enjoy it is the best revenge we can get…until next November, that is. 

Tell musicians to boycott the Kennedy Center until Trump's name is removed!

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