Mary Trump reminds us that Trump |”and his administration have underfunded or defunded them.”
Whereas, even if he did it in large part at Jackie’s urging, JFK spoke up for the arts like no other president past or since.
Mary tells the Daily Beast that Trump “wants to turn every public space in America into some version of WWE or Ultimate Fighting, and it is just grotesque that he thinks that somehow this legitimizes him or gives him the same stature and standing as somebody like President Kennedy. But that’s partially why he’s doing it.”
And no, Trump’s redesign and interior decorating fetish are not “saving” the Kennedy Center, as his hysterical flaks insist. In reality, they are driving it to white elephant status: a bedizened, discredited, audience-free mausoleum honoring Trump’s disdain for the arts, his sclerotic, cirrhotic ego, his contempt for democracy and for the United States of America–will he soon it rename i”Trump’s USA”?