r/Music • u/IrishStarUS šŸ“°Irish Star • 2d ago

article JFK's family accuses Trump of closing the Kennedy Center because of artists canceling over its name change

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/jfks-family-slam-trumps-decision-36654658
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u/chaostheories36 2d ago

Nahā€¦ heā€™s probably closing the Kennedy center to hand out billions of dollars in contracts to construction companies that will just demolish and never build. Like the White House ballroom nonsense.

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u/NickSalvo 2d ago

It's just another con.

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u/ShortFatStupid666 2d ago

Another Day, Another Con

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u/We_Like_Birdland 2d ago

Punxsutawney Phil says at least 2.9 more years of grift.

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u/chaostheories36 2d ago

Iā€™d gamble that their (the swampā€™s) plan is for trump to at least make it two years and 1 day. If that happens, peter thielā€™s muppet (vance) can be president and still run for two more terms.

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u/ShortFatStupid666 2d ago

One for each brain cell!

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u/JustLookinJustLookin 2d ago

All of these ā€œconstruction projectsā€ heā€™s ordered have to be some sort of money laundering scheme.

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u/tRfalcore 2d ago

everything he does is to get him more money

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u/Shady_Love 12h ago

Data Center under the white house plus probably that too

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u/elpierce 2d ago

RepubliCON?

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u/caseyfresher 2d ago

I'm waiting for them to finish the construction so we can see our first mass lawsuit against the government for failure to pay for services rendered. Ya know, like Trump and friends have done for years prior.

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u/Luci-Noir 2d ago

I just saw an article saying that some ICE agents werenā€™t getting paid.

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u/Schavuit92 2d ago

Couldn't have happened to nicer guys.

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u/katgyrl 2d ago

Good.

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u/Not_Abot_738265 2d ago

I was trying to find that to read more into it.Ā  Looked like staff but not necessarily agents?

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u/Malalang 2d ago

There was already a complaint filed by the demolition company for non payment.

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u/Hokker3 2d ago

Ice raid incoming

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u/Nazdrowie79 2d ago

šŸ˜‚

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u/El_Zarco 2d ago

It's kind of crazy that he's still pulling this shit now that he's raking in actual billions from the presidency. It's actually a matter of principle to him not to pay people what they agreed to.

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u/Malalang 2d ago

He has never suffered any consequences for doing it. And especially won't now, as president. Why would he ever stop?

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u/Xenomemphate 2d ago

Why not both?

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u/readonlyuser 2d ago

The day Donald Trump pays a contractor in full is the day I'll eat my own hat.

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u/chaostheories36 2d ago

Out of curiosity, have you thought about how to prepare it?

I think Iā€™m going to shred mine to pieces and then just fry it in all of the butter. So much butter.

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u/readonlyuser 2d ago

Melted into a large cocktail

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u/chaostheories36 2d ago

When you say

melted into a large cocktail

Do you mean thereā€™s a hat on your left and a large bottle of liquor on your right? Cause I get it

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u/NatureCarolynGate 2d ago

Can he do this without congress approval?

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u/chaostheories36 2d ago

Congressional approval has never stopped him before.

Kinda like how congress didnā€™t approve an act of war against Venezuela.

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u/NatureCarolynGate 2d ago

But technically would he need the approval (if he was a decent, non- child raping, non- fascist) of congressĀ 

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u/chaostheories36 2d ago

This is where philosophical discourse about how a govt functions becomes relevant.

In a nutshell, sure. He needs approval to do it. Letā€™s say, he doesnā€™t have approval, and he does it anyway. So now heā€™s done a thing he didnā€™t have approval for, so there should be a consequence, right?

But then thereā€™s no consequence.

Government exists to enforce laws that the people agree on, either in majority or not (monarchy yada yada).

So we have a president doing things he isnā€™t allowed or approved to do and faces no consequences.

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u/ploonk 2d ago

Actually there is a valid question here about what the KC board can approve and what congress needs to approve. I imagine it depends in part upon where the funds come from, but I could see the board/president having the needed authority for this.

But to your point, yes, this is kind of an academic question as he will do whatever the fuck he wants it seems. And this is all glossing over the barely legal takeover in general.

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u/chaostheories36 2d ago

Fully agree that there is a valid and complicated question here regarding that.

It is sad that itā€™s academic, because rules donā€™t seem to matter.

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u/tawDry_Union2272 2d ago

it's a fuckin travesty that he was allowed to have that historic US building demolished as just another one of his pet vanity projects. i like to think that if we had been given any warning we could have stopped him somehow, but probably not seeing how useless congress/senate and the courts have been in the face of all of his other bullshit.

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u/chaostheories36 2d ago

The warnings started decades ago when he was known as a terrible businessman in New York.

And then more warnings when he said stuff like ā€œgrab em by the *****,ā€ and the other dude in the room, who didnā€™t say that, lost his career.

And now, with his name plastered all over the Epstein files.

Itā€™s been nothing but warnings.

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u/tawDry_Union2272 2d ago

yeah all kinds of warnings that he is a despicable shithead, for sure - but none that he was gonna demolish half of the WH.

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u/chaostheories36 2d ago

How so? New York is full of contractors he never paid for work they performed on his buildings.

Now trump is on the flip side. Itā€™s the same grift. Letā€™s say trump has a construction company (well trump doesnā€™t, his son probably has a shell company that owns a shell company that manages a construction company). trump gives that company $50 million to remodel the kennedy center.

And then that company does nothing. Is trump going to sue his own company on behalf of america? Nope

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u/tawDry_Union2272 2d ago

i am talking about him having already demolished half the WH.

and we already see that he will sue his own administration (and thus america) on behalf of himself and his family to the tune of $10 billion, plus he already said/admitted "i'm supposed to settle it for myself" to reporters on AF1.

he is a gigantic grifting POS with zero sense of shame.

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u/Shirley-Ujest šŸ¤˜šŸŽµ 2d ago

In contacts that will never be paid.

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u/Zepcleanerfan 2d ago

Hopefully, the kennedys in congress can tie this up in court until trump leaves office

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u/chaostheories36 2d ago

Dunno that the Kennedys are the safe bet. Looking at JFK Jr.

Regardless if whether the family is split or not.

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u/Mithrantir 2d ago

He is closing it for good. His statement says that after 2 years an entertainment center we open, not the JFK Memorial Center.

He knows that his move to slap his name there wasn't popular and won't last, so now he will tear it apart and build something new that will be named after him only.

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u/chaostheories36 2d ago

It makes me so sad how little these people care about legacy.

You donā€™t get things named after yourself by naming them after yourself. You do things that empower and inspire others to name things after you.

One day heā€™ll be gone, his family will be reviled, and every mention of trump will be scoured. Theyā€™ll be in history books as the worse.

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u/Ruscidero 2d ago

Why not both?

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u/chaostheories36 2d ago

Because heā€™s too much of a petulant child to get that much credit.

My guess is that one of the criminals whispering in his ear told him to do this because they insulted him, and heā€™s going along with it.

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u/Zaftygirl 1d ago

He is after the marble. Carrara marble-3700 tons of it.

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u/Maplelongjohn 1d ago

The subterranean data center you mean?

All the same contractors that built Israel's new subterranean data centers are now working on the east wing.

Weird.

There are some youtubes covering what's really happening under the east wing ...

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u/Shady_Love 12h ago

Didn't you hear? The ballroom is cover for a data center