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Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell baselessly accused main information organizations of actively encouraging artists to boycott performances in protest of the establishment’s new Trump rebranding.
Grenell, who President Donald Trump put in earlier this 12 months as a part of a board shake-up, claimed with out proof on Tuesday that shops, together with NCS and The Washington Post, have been urging booked performers to cancel reveals in response to the middle’s deliberate renaming because the “Trump-Kennedy Center.”
“I have just been informed by some booked artists that they are receiving emails from @NCS and @washingtonpost encouraging them to boycott the Trump Kennedy Center,” Grenell wrote on X. “The legacy media are left wing activists – and they are open about it.”
A day earlier, Grenell additionally accused The New York Times of “celebrating people boycotting the Arts.”
The accusations land amid a rising revolt from artists who say the middle’s management has been politicized following Trump’s resolution in February to appoint a slate of loyalists to the board, which then named Grenell chair. Earlier this month, the board claimed to have unanimously authorised including Trump’s title to the federally protected memorial.
Jazz supergroup The Cookers pulled out of two New Year’s Eve concert events on Monday, every week after drummer Chuck Redd additionally canceled a Christmas Eve live performance, prompting Grenell to demand $1 million in damages and dismiss the transfer as a “political stunt.”
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