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 Another Kennedy Center cancellation
01/23/26 05:01 PM
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Occupy Democrats
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BREAKING
BREAKING: Grammy Award-winning opera singer Renée Fleming cancels her highly-anticipated symphony performances at the Kennedy Center as Trump's disastrous leadership claims another defeat.
This is a huge black eye for MAGA...
“Renée Fleming regrets that, due to a scheduling conflict, she must withdraw from her May 2026 concerts with the NSO,” a message on the center’s website reads. “A new soloist and repertoire will be announced at a later date, and the remainder of the program remains unchanged.”
Fleming was slated to perform with conductor James Gaffigan and the National Symphony Orchestra.
As anyone in the business will tell you, "scheduling conflict" is almost always a diplomatic way of saying "I no longer wish to do these performances." Fleming previously served as as artistic adviser at large for the center but left after Trump took over and stocked the board with his under-qualified cronies.
Since that taekover, a long string of prominent artists have pulled out of appearances at the Kennedy Center in protest including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Issa Rae, "Wicked" composer Stephen Schwartz, and the Washington National Opera.
Those protests have been validated by Trump's increasingly absurd leadership, which included his minions on the board voting (perhaps illegally) to rename the center to “The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts."
The best thing about this peaceful form of protest is that it's EXACTLY the kind of thing that gets under Trump's infamously thin skin. He cares deeply about celebrities and wants nothing more than to be accepted by this nation's luminaries. We can never allow that to happen. Fascism cannot become normalized.
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