Musician cancels Kennedy Center concert over Trump name

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Documents report a musician (identified as Chuck Redd) canceled a traditional Kennedy Center Christmas jazz concert after Trump’s name was added to the building; the Kennedy Center criticized the cancellation and reports state Trump’s team sued the musician for $1 million.

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12/27/25, 05:16 AM
Billionaire Trump Threatens Kennedy Center With Tacky Marble Makeover - The Daily Beast
12/27/25, 04:56 AM
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President Donald Trump unveiled possible renovations to the former Kennedy Center, promising they would be "unlike anyth...
"President Donald Trump unveiled possible renovations to the former Kennedy Center, promising they would be "unlike anything ever done or seen before."
12/27/25, 04:50 AM
It will, eventually end up looking like Liberace’s set. In other words, like the current White House.
12/27/25, 04:49 AM
Go ahead Grenell. We all see the real political stunt here. You will not collect a dime. Art cannot be bought but it can be squandered.
12/27/25, 04:38 AM
Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell threatening jazz drummer Chuck Redd for canceling Christmas Eve show. "True artists perform for everyone regardless of political affiliation of audience members" Uh, Reed didn't cancel over the audience. He canceled over Trump's name on building.
12/27/25, 04:37 AM
Yes. And Maria Shriver. And (I think) Kerry Kennedy. People are just sick of this arrogant wannabe king ignoring laws, protocols, & precedents. This has to boil over at some point. He’s a CHEAPSKATE. He hates spending “HIS” money. But…haha…#ETTD is killing the “Felonious Pedophile Kennedy Center”
12/27/25, 04:35 AM
The venue’s president Richard Grenell said he would seek $1 million in damages. trib.al/XFfNB4Q
12/27/25, 04:23 AM
Breaking: Kennedy Center this year ticket and subscription sales have dropped significantly by roughly 43%. Reports show a dramatic drop in attendance (with empty seats) and revenue.
12/27/25, 04:13 AM
erase JFK’s name from the Kennedy Center… and rename it after Donald J. Trump. This isn’t satire. It’s a real bill backed by MAGA extremists in Washington. It’s disgraceful, disrespectful, and an insult to everything President Kennedy stood for.
12/27/25, 04:10 AM
Will artists and patrons boycott Trumps centre?
12/27/25, 04:06 AM
Considering their renaming of the center itself was illegal this should be a fun trial.
12/27/25, 03:55 AM
Any artists who perform there after this illegal name change, should also be boycotted!! #BoycottKennedyCenter #KennedyCenterfortheArts
12/27/25, 03:48 AM
KC Slams Musician’s Trump Stance The Kennedy Center Faces Backlash After Honoring President Trump Washington D.C. – The president of the Kennedy Center is expressing strong disapproval after a musician canceled a Christmas Eve performance. This cancellation came shortly after the announcement that…
12/27/25, 03:46 AM
The public will pay Chuck Redd money if that psycho Grenell really tries to extort one million from him
sorry but you cannot get me to care in the slightest about what happens to the Kennedy center, I barely even know what t...
"sorry but you cannot get me to care in the slightest about what happens to the Kennedy center, I barely even know what that is. same with the white house renovation. doesn't affect me in the slightest, I have real things I'm worried about and you should too"
12/27/25, 03:36 AM
it is kinda funny to watch, I'll concede that
12/27/25, 03:36 AM
If anyone has read The Power Broker and taken in Robert Moses' favorite entertainments at Jones Beach, you already know what will be on view at the Kennedy and narcissistic felon Center.
12/27/25, 03:36 AM
sorry but you cannot get me to care in the slightest about what happens to the Kennedy center, I barely even know what that is. same with the white house renovation. doesn't affect me in the slightest, I have real things I'm worried about and you should too
12/27/25, 03:33 AM
Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell sent a letter to jazz drummer Chuck Redd denouncing his decision to cancel a planned show at the venue after President Trumps name was added to the building Idiot should have denounced the idiot who had his name put on the Center you can't make this shit up
12/27/25, 03:30 AM
Trump-Kennedy Center filing $1M lawsuit against musician who pulled out of Christmas Eve concert over name change
12/27/25, 03:30 AM
Trump wants his name on the Kennedy Center…. Performers should boycott. Leave. In fact, they should be working to put on alternate performances under the Kennedy Center name. Bring in big names and big audiences, but not in that defaced building….
12/27/25, 03:28 AM
Nobody’s going to the KENNEDY Centre any more. Why waste the money.
Trump has hinted that the Kenney Center will be getting the Mar-a-Lago special.
"Trump has hinted that the Kenney Center will be getting the Mar-a-Lago special."
12/27/25, 03:21 AM
Well as long as there is cake, we’ll be fine.
12/27/25, 03:19 AM
Trump is a shit stain. Attaching his name to a place kills it. He's the great betrayer. The Kennedy Center is dead. #FelonTrump apnews.com/article/kenn...
12/27/25, 03:17 AM
how exactly did you lose $1 million for the cancellation of a concert that has always been FREE to the public, dipshit?
Trump has hinted that the Kenney Center will be getting the Mar-a-Lago special.
"Trump has hinted that the Kenney Center will be getting the Mar-a-Lago special."
12/27/25, 03:15 AM
Oh gawd no
12/27/25, 03:08 AM
"Musician criticizes Kennedy Center" motherfucker
12/27/25, 03:07 AM
Trump has hinted that the Kenney Center will be getting the Mar-a-Lago special.
On the plus side nobody will attend in the first place to experience these monstrosities
12/27/25, 03:03 AM
As long as there are monster trucks, they will have a home at the Trump-Kennedy Center.
12/27/25, 03:01 AM
Don Lemon is peak lib cringe. Bro posted himself shaking his head at Carrie Underwood singing a song at the CMAs making fun of Obamacare. Probably worth mentioning it's the 2013 CMAs.
12/27/25, 03:00 AM
Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building https://www.inbella.com/1447471/kennedy-center-criticizes-musician-who-canceled-performance-after-trump-name-added-to-building/ WASHINGTON — The president of the Kennedy Center on Friday fiercely …
https://www.inbella.com/1447471/kennedy-center-criticizes-musician-who-canceled-performance-after-trump-name-added-to-building/
12/27/25, 02:58 AM
I’d think a contract would be between the artist and a performing arts venue by name, and changing the name would necessitate renegotiating the contract.
12/27/25, 02:55 AM
That's a first that the @kencen stacked with @realDonaldTrump acolytes who go after an artist who cancelled. Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building
12/27/25, 02:47 AM
Grenell slams musician for canceling on Kennedy Center after Trump name add Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell on Friday sent a letter to jazz drummer Chuck Redd denouncing his decision to cancel a planned show at the venue after President Trump's name was added to the building. "Your…
"Catching up on Dynamite and Collision, and the show is great, and I’m enjoying the camera work, but the Hammerstein is fucking hideous these days I’d rather than not run it. I’m sure there’s another venue on 34th street you could run for the name lmao"
12/27/25, 02:37 AM
Yeah I feel like it wasn’t this bad when GCW ran it I think in January
And on January 1, 2027, if I were Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, I would send the Capitol Police over to the Kennedy Center an...
12/27/25, 02:36 AM
I’m partial to prosecuting the board members who voted for it and sentencing them to fix it until there’s no trace left of their vandalism. The ones who show genuine remorse can have rudimentary tools.
12/27/25, 02:32 AM
Trump destroys everything he touches. His hosting of the Kennedy Center honors was the lowest rated show in their history.
12/27/25, 02:26 AM
Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building apnews.com/article/kenn... Good luck with that lawsuit. Trump changed the intention of the Kennedy Center right before the holiday.Every act after that change probably has the right to quit performances.
12/27/25, 02:26 AM
And on January 1, 2027, if I were Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, I would send the Capitol Police over to the Kennedy Center and have them remove the graffiti.
12/27/25, 02:23 AM
I know where one of them should go and it ain’t the Kennedy Center.
12/27/25, 02:16 AM
Trump's Christmas of Chaos: Hosting a Rebranded Kennedy Center Honors, Over 100 Angry Truth Social Posts - The Hollywood Reporter apple.news/AXb3JkpOPQmu...
12/27/25, 02:16 AM
If you really want to rub salt into Trump’s ratings wound, tell him Queen Latifa had 35% more viewers than Trump when she hosted the Kennedy Center in 2024.
12/27/25, 02:15 AM
Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building | Click on the image to read the full story https://www.wdsu.com/article/kennedy-center-trump-performance-canceled/69869640?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot
https://www.wdsu.com/article/kennedy-center-trump-performance-canceled/69869640?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot
12/27/25, 02:13 AM
He had a commitment to perform at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. He showed up to perform, but was told Kennedy Center for Performing Arts no longer existed. How can anyone blame him?
12/27/25, 01:57 AM
Merry War on Kennedy Center. Scum.
12/27/25, 01:55 AM
Kennedy Center seeks $1M from host who canceled show over Trump name change www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...
12/27/25, 01:43 AM
This MFKR is going to SUE someone who cancelled his appearence at the Kennedy Center for a million dollars because he put his FKG name on the Kennedy Center. Un-FKGbelievable.
12/27/25, 01:41 AM
Paywall. Who cancelled performance?
12/27/25, 01:35 AM
Laughing, so the “Kennedy Center criticizes the planned 24 th Jazz ensemble for canceling ….. why didn’t they say the Trump center ? Because no one gives a damn about Trump … 😂😂😂😂😂😂
12/27/25, 01:33 AM
Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building “Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in response to the Center's recent renaming, which honors President Trump's extraordinary”…blah blah blah. tinyurl.com/GakP5q
12/27/25, 01:31 AM
😡🤬😡 Richard Grenell IS SCUM! Typical ignorant and arrogant MAGAt! "Your decision to withdraw at the last moment - explicitly in response to the Center's recent renaming, which honors President Trump's extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure ... cont'd in comments ⬇️⬇️⬇️
12/27/25, 01:27 AM
'Unlike anything!' Trump unveils ostentatious upgrades to MAGA-fied Kennedy Center😡😡😡😡 www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...
12/27/25, 01:18 AM
“Kennedy niece Kerry Kennedy has vowed to remove Trump’s name from the building once he leaves office, and former House historian Ray Smock is among those who say changes would have to be approved by Congress.” So the laws apply to everyone but Trump. Did I get that right? apnews.com/article/kenn...
12/27/25, 01:18 AM
The Trump-Kennedy Center faces backlash as board president criticizes a jazz musician for canceling a Christmas Eve performance amid the center's controversial renaming.
12/27/25, 01:12 AM
He got so mad that the Kennedy Center Honors he planned and hosted was the least viewed ever that he rage launched missiles into an empty field to feel better and none of that is a joke. This is for real what happened. Jesus Christ, man.
12/27/25, 01:04 AM
The best way to remove Trump from office would be for citizens to mobilise and remove his name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
who is spending money on this
"who is spending money on this"
12/27/25, 01:03 AM
And what gave him the right to redecorate the Kennedy Center?
12/27/25, 12:53 AM
Kennedy Center seeks $1M from host who canceled show over Trump name change
12/27/25, 12:50 AM
It is just so disgusting & a new low for #Trump. Putting his name over an assassinated popular real President. Just another thing #Trump has ruined and made it below filth with the Kennedy Center. What’s next naming the country after himself? youtu.be/qfQyIJSY1r4?...
12/27/25, 12:48 AM
WTF is his obsession with The Kennedy Center?
12/27/25, 12:36 AM
Kennedy Center seeks $1M from host who canceled show over Trump name change I’d say fkem. Hope he prevails.
12/27/25, 12:30 AM
it occurs to me that if we want to get a sense of why Trump worked to get his name on the Kennedy Center, we might want to stop looking at his ego and look at how his hard core supporters feel about all those confederate monuments coming down.
12/27/25, 12:30 AM
it occurs to me that if we want to get a sense of why Trump worked to get his name on the Kennedy Center, we might want to stop looking at his ego and look at how his hard core supporters feel about all those confederate monuments coming down.
Trump teases marble armrests for Kennedy Center: 'Unlike anything ever done or seen before!' https://twp.ai/4iuLEr
"Trump teases marble armrests for Kennedy Center: 'Unlike anything ever done or seen before!' https://twp.ai/4iuLEr"
12/27/25, 12:28 AM
gross
12/27/25, 12:25 AM
STUBHUB screwed me on tickets that were listed as THE CURE, for a concert earlier this year. It was actually a tribute band. They changed the title of the listing after I bought tickets. No Refund, only an encouragement to resale, without even offering a refund of THOSE fees. SCUM company.
12/27/25, 12:23 AM
Kennedy Center Honors hosted by Trump tanks in ratings with 35% fewer viewers than last year: report. President Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center Honors show saw ratings for the annual event tank with 35 percent fewer viewers than last year, according to a report. 😆😅😂🤣🤣🤣
12/27/25, 12:18 AM
Has anyone broken it to Trump that his worst fear has been realized? His Nielson ratings for Kennedy honors were the 'smallest audience ever.'🤣
12/27/25, 12:17 AM
Musician says "no thank you" to performing at revered venue now being hijacked by a poser.
12/27/25, 12:01 AM
And in legal news... The Kennedy Center (I am not calling it by that other name)'s president is now attempting to sue for $1 million over the annual Christmas jazz concert being cancelled in protest at the "new name" www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
12/26/25, 11:33 PM
trump CRUSHED As Kennedy Center Plans Backfire Massively In His Face www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjHh...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjHh...
12/26/25, 11:31 PM
Trumps political stunt deserves a an answer. We ARE NOT O-K WITH THE RENAMING OF OUR KENNEDY CENTER. It is NOT his building. l.smartnews.com/p-6QPHxEZy/C...
12/26/25, 11:23 PM
Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building https://triblive.com/news/politics-election/kennedy-center-criticizes-musician-who-canceled-performance-after-trump-name-added-to-building/
https://triblive.com/news/politics-election/kennedy-center-criticizes-musician-who-canceled-performance-after-trump-name-added-to-building/
12/26/25, 11:03 PM
SORE ASS LOSER BREAKING: OMG. Trump’s team sues musician who cancelled his Kennedy Center concert for $1 million Trump is apparently so butthurt that legendary jazz musician Chuck Redd cancelled his traditional Christmas jazz concert at the Kennedy Center over Trump illegally adding his name
12/26/25, 11:02 PM
Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building
12/26/25, 10:46 PM
www.yahoo.com/news/article... 😂😂😂 How do you fire somebody who already quit? Even funnier was a post from someone who hoped that he'd never be invited back to perform there. As long as Trump's name is on it, what makes them think he wants to be invited back? The exodus is heading away from Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/article...
12/26/25, 10:36 PM
"Trump’s team sues musician who cancelled his Kennedy Center concert for $1 million over his “political stunt!”" Freedom of action, free speech, right to take his business elsewhere? The entire MAGA movement is a political stunt by stupid folk.
12/26/25, 10:23 PM
I hope a good lawyer will help jazz musician Chuck Redd deal with this idiotic attack by Trump henchman Richard Grenell. apnews.com/article/kenn...
12/26/25, 10:20 PM
Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building (Steven Sloan/Associated Press) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink
12/26/25, 10:11 PM
Yngwie Malmsteen Accuses Former Singers Of Trying To Capitalize From His Brand Guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen has taken to X, formerly Twitter, to air his grievances against the former singers on his solo albums: So it has come-to my attention that these hired and paid singers that I hired for…
12/26/25, 09:50 PM
'Unlike anything!' Trump unveils ostentatious upgrades to MAGA-fied Kennedy Center www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...
12/26/25, 09:46 PM
Ratings Tank For Kennedy Center Honors With President Trump as Host Good news, bad news for President Trump ... the bad news is the Kennedy Center Honors award show he hosted saw its TV ratings tank with him at the helm ... but the good news is this means he won't be quitting t… #media #news #trump
12/26/25, 09:27 PM
apnews.com/article/kenn... Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building
12/26/25, 09:21 PM
Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building www.yahoo.com/news/article...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/article...
12/26/25, 09:20 PM
Talk about ratings that tanked. The Kennedy Center Honors hosted by Donald Trump in 2025 received its lowest ratings ever, attracting approximately 2.65 million viewers, which is a 35% decline from the previous year's 4.1 million viewers.
12/26/25, 09:05 PM
Trending Now: Paul McCartney, Jennifer Lopez and More Stars Who Were Humiliatingly Barred From Celebrity Hotspots – Fans React Trending Now: This entertainment story covers the latest buzz, reactions, and updates surrounding Trending Now: Paul McCartney, Jennifer Lopez and More Stars Who Were…
12/26/25, 08:45 PM
(347) 🚨Trump's Kennedy Center Just Got TROLLED By SOUTH PARK STUNT - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ8y...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ8y...
12/26/25, 07:35 PM
It sucks for the musicians and the folks that love the arts but good of them to cancel.
12/26/25, 07:26 PM
“When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” Redd told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday. apnews.com/article/kenn...
12/26/25, 07:25 PM
I hope every artist who was scheduled to perform at the Kennedy Center cancels. And puts on a giant, Woodstock level event in a great location far away from DC.
The first time, her husband, Carl Dean, was ill, so she couldn't accept or attend. The second time, she wouldn't tra...
12/26/25, 07:25 PM
Dolly: Sorry! Can’t come. I’m sick *cough cough.
12/26/25, 07:25 PM
Lawsuit Filed To Remove Trump's Name From The Kennedy Center open.substack.com/pub/politicu...

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