Kennedy Center official tells judge that removing Trump’s could make them go broke (www.independent.co.uk)

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If Trump’s name is removed, a ‘vital fundraising connection will be severed,’ the center’s chief executive argued

A Trump-Kennedy Center official warned a federal judge that stripping the president’s name from the renowned arts institution would cause unbearable financial damage, marking the latest twist in a months-long legal battle.

Charles Matthew Floca, the center’s 39-year-old executive director, filed a declaration Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, arguing the institution’s funding is inextricably linked to President Donald Trump.

“President Trump’s fundraising on behalf of the Center is exemplified by the tens of millions of dollars already raised,” Floca wrote. “Further, the President has committed to raise $150 billion on its behalf from private donors over the next two years.”

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[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 day ago

Further, the President has committed to raise $150 billion on its behalf from private donors over the next two years

ahahdahaaahdahdahahahaha wut?

you mean he's gonna use the kennedy center's name to try to steal $150 billion from rich idiots.

[-] LadyMeow 10 points 1 day ago

Rich idiots? Or just pillage from the American people….

These ‘private’ donors are probably the same ones funding the ballroom or whatever. Taxpayers

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They're all laughing at you, you fucking idiot. We're all laughing at you.

Get that stupid fucking name off that building. It's ~~graffiti~~ vandalism.

[-] LadyMeow 8 points 1 day ago

Hey!

Graffiti can be very artistic and beautiful!

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

You're right, it's VANDALISM

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago

Oh Charles Matthew Floca, you sweet summer child, you actually BELIEVE in the $150 billion dollars?

Honey, you won't even have a job in two years.

[-] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Republicans and administration staffers don't believe it any more than anyone else. To anyone in this administration, lies are just tools to win, even if they are just passing them off second-hand.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

I gotta say law professors have better be putting together a book on this because this administration's representative attorneys are giving out the most hare-brained excuses to justify Trump's narcissism, con-artistry and lawbreaking and pettiness.

[-] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

They're losing even more money when every show gets canceled.

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

A lot of people posit that they're doing the construction work because the shows weren't selling and they needed to stop hemmoraging money and bad publicity. If you were tracking their ticket sales you'd see they couldn't move tickets at all after Trump kicked out the old board.

[-] newton@feddit.online 5 points 1 day ago

Great, trump killed Kennedy center, what a lozer

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

LOL. Wouldn't it be the opposite?

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