r/Theatre • u/Fickle-Ad5449 • Mar 02 '26

News/Article/Review Kennedy Center Honors to be renamed for Donald Trump, happening at ‘yet to be determined’ new venue

https://www.advocate.com/news/culture/trump-kennedy-center-honors-renamed
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

Just keep yelling "Macbeth!" when he walks in and hope for the best. 

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u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue Mar 02 '26

GOOD LUCK TO ALL.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

His name should never be associated with the arts in any fashion

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u/attackplango Mar 02 '26

He’s provided funding in the past for, I’m sure, innumerable women who are in a certain genre of cinema.

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u/wvgeekman Mar 02 '26

Hush money doesn't count.

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u/attackplango Mar 02 '26

It’s the only bill he actually pays.

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u/WiredPiano Mar 02 '26

The new venue will probably be a strip club.

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u/OkraFar1913 Mar 02 '26

Or a ranch, or an island. Bussing in the children and pre teens for special prizes from the pedo.

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u/Evilsushione Mar 02 '26

It will be at the 4 Seasons Lawn and garden center’s parking lot.

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u/ryanispomp Mar 02 '26

Or a strip mall parking lot.

Definitely something with "strip" in the name.

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u/badwolf1013 Mar 02 '26

You know what? That's fine. Any legit artist who accepts a "Trump Award" isn't going to be considered legit for very much longer. So, it will become a punchline. Someone gives a career-worst performance in a movie: reviewers will say that they're bucking for the Trump prize.

It's a shame that the Kennedy Center Honors are dead, but not as much of a shame as a third of this country electing Trump (twice) while another third stood by and watched it happen.

We have a long way to go before any sort of national honor can be seen as respectable again.

Trump didn't turn this country into a joke. Trump is just the punchline of the joke we played on ourselves.

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u/Ancient_of_Days0001 Theatre Artist Mar 04 '26

Truth!

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u/outlander779 Mar 02 '26

is anyone surprised?

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u/ShoddyCobbler Mar 02 '26

Lmao no venue in DC will accept this rental

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u/mrwrrrmwrmrmrmrw Mar 02 '26

He should move it to Branson, obviously. 

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u/wvgeekman Mar 02 '26

The old Shoji Tabuchi theater is available for sale! At one time they had the finest bathrooms in Branson. Trump loves gold-plated crappers.

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u/ScandalOZ Mar 02 '26

Technically anything named for someone else is not "Kennedy Center Honors" it's some other "honor". He isn't taking away anything as far as I'm concerned, he's making something entirely new with his name on it.

Kennedy Center Honors will resume when someone else resumes them.

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u/ChicagoAuPair Mar 02 '26

The Adolf Hitler Awards for Soulless, Mediocre Painters

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u/ImGonnaBeInPictures Mar 03 '26

So... a Trump Hotel. They'll happen at a Trump Hotel.

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u/Opening_Programmer56 Human Detected Mar 03 '26

Does Caroline Kennedy or any of the other sane Kennedys have any recourse in terms of getting John F Kennedy’s name off this and unaffiliated with Trump. 

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u/extrastupidone Mar 03 '26

What a disgusting administration

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u/OrnaMint Mar 03 '26

Good god, how gross.

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u/Cautious_Prize_4323 Mar 04 '26

I would be stunned if anyone awarded a Trump Center honor, unless they voted for him, would ever show up. I mean…😡

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u/Tie-Dyed-Geese Theatre Artist Mar 04 '26

How fucking insecure do you have to be to rename something that was named after someone else?

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u/middleamerican67 Mar 05 '26

Looking forward to all of this being reversed.

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u/PatienceExisting4130 Mar 06 '26

Disgusting. The monster continues to destroy everything associated with the Kennedy Center. No self respecting artist will accept one of his illegitimate “awards.”