Kennedy Center Ticket Sales Collapse

Monday, February 24, 2025

Donald Trump's move to take control of Washington D.C's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has led to a staggering 50 percent drop in ticket sales, according to a report.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 04:33 PM | 22 COMMENTS | permalink

Ticket sales dropped roughly 50 percent week-over-week after Trump announced his takeover, sources said. Meanwhile, performers are mulling their options.

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-- The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) February 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM

Comments

Looks like Boxcar Willy and Minnnie Pearl willbe sitting this one out.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-02-23 03:56 PM

So long as they give Lewzer an award they don't need ticket sales.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-23 04:06 PM

Well, the answer is clear:

Fire the Box Office staff!!!

#3 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-02-23 04:25 PM

I wonder when the Village People will be headlining?

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-23 04:40 PM

When Trump is dead we can start to rebuild the Kennedy Center.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-23 06:01 PM

Nobody wants to see what that fat idiot says.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-24 12:16 AM

Another thing that he touches dies.

#7 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-02-24 04:44 PM

Wait till Trump brings midget wrestling to the Kennedy Center.

#8 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-02-24 04:57 PM

"One of the more dangerous pleasures of great wealth is that you never have to hear anyone tell you that you are completely wrong."

David Frum

#9 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-02-24 05:53 PM

Lara Trump will soon be named Artist in Residence. She will perform nightly for the next umpteen weeks. She will also have to sweep up, collect tickets, serve refreshments at intermission, check coats, handle the lights, be the stage crew and shovel the walkways during snowstorms. But she won't have to back down. Get your tickets now, from $15,000-1.25MM per seat...

#10 | Posted by catdog at 2025-02-24 06:00 PM

The Arts without Woke? Anyone see 87 year old Jane Fonda SAG Awards Last night? She was absolutely riveting and I loved her close talking about the actual meaning of WOKE! She spoke about how the right has coopted the word. She talked about that it meant diversity, equality
and inclusion in a nation whrtr that was not the norm and the people who protested injustice and for equality and that was right and that America is far better today than it was in earlier decades because peoplr did protest and object to inequality!
Today I feel priveleged that a friend actually asked me for the remote and put it on the channel that carried the SAG Awards show. I enjoyed Jane's acceprance speech so much!
I thought bacl to the days of Hanoi Jane but today we have Putin's bitch as our President! (My words not hers!)

#11 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-24 07:22 PM

The idea that the Arts shouldn't be woke is so stupid that it is hilarious! Could be a good SNl sketch!

#12 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-24 07:24 PM

@#4 ... I wonder when the Village People will be headlining? ...

Good question.

#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-24 08:47 PM

Democrat politicians continue to try to politicize everything, and the public is sick of it. We want a degree of balance. There has rarely been any effort to remove politics from the arts.

#14 | Posted by Robson at 2025-02-24 09:24 PM

Politics have been an integral part of the arts since human beings first began to express themselves. Demanding that we "remove politics from the arts" is farcical.

#15 | Posted by cbob at 2025-02-25 05:41 AM

Democrat politicians continue to try to politicize everything, and the public is sick of it. We want a degree of balance. There has rarely been any effort to remove politics from the arts.

#14 | Posted by Robson

Former Republican presidents managed to treat the Kennedy Center honors as they should be.

And when a president's idea of culture is "Ave Maria," "My Way," the Village People, Mein Kampf, and gold-plated toilets, maybe it is best just to close it down for a while.

#16 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-25 08:54 AM

We want a degree of balance.

#14 | POSTED BY ROBSON

As established by a dweeb such as yourself?

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-25 10:32 AM

effort to remove politics from the arts.

#14 | POSTED BY ROBSON

How many plays of Shakespeare would you be removing, Einstein?

#18 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-25 10:33 AM

It'll resemble those insane North Korean performances for their Dear Leader

#19 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-02-25 11:01 AM

Why are taxpayers funding this perk for the politburo? Turn it into a homeless shelter.