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[–] 55 points 8 hours ago (9 children)

What’s crazy is he was able to secure all the corporate donations for this thing, yet the poor Kennedy Center needs to be demolished because he cannot secure donations to keep it alive.

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  • [–] 67 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

    For people who don't know, the Kennedy Center had a large team of people whose job it was to get enough donations to keep it running.... IIRC something around 100 people, and under Trump's direction, that team was more or less completely dismantled.

    The previous director of the Kennedy Center was a very rich man, I think a billionaire, who had personally donated millions to the Kennedy Center, and Trump got rid of him.

    Trump did everything he could to sabotage all existing sources of funding for the Kennedy Center.

    It's hard to describe in words what a pathetic loser Trump is. He can't stand to have somebody whose name is in any way elevated above his own. He'll destroy any cultural institution and anybody else's happiness just to get the tiniest bit of honor for himself.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    It’s hard to describe in words what a pathetic loser Trump is.

    It must be done by performance art that includes horrendous odors and the kind of flashing lights that cause seizures.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    As far as I know, the Kennedy Center's donation problems didn't really start until after a judge told him they couldn't put Donald Trump's name on the building.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 hours ago

    Not quite, the Kennedy Center's problems started when he first put his name on it and replaced the board with sycophants.

    The large amount of existing donors stopped providing funds, and the team responsible for getting donors was replaced by idiots trying to use Trump's disastrous name.

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