The Smallness of the Big Man

 

A king needs lots of (fake) gold

Donald Jethro Trump has hated the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors, less than a year into his 1st term, when some of the honorees -- which included LL Cool J, Lionel Richie, and Norman Lear -- said they wouldn't attend if Trump had a role. (Jethro had done plenty by then to earn their disapproval and distaste, including his "good people" comment about the Nazis who rioted in Charlottesville.)

So yesterday Jethro announced he would be firing the current Kennedy Center board of directors and installing himself as chair. "Real tinpot dictator stuff," commented Molly Jong-Fast on Blue Sky. My gawd! Don't you see the moments coming when he enters the Presidential Box for a big gala performance like the Emperor Commodus entering the Coliseum to the cheers of the bread-'n'-circuses chumps.

Trump always needs a fig leaf to cover up the embarrassing details of his naked ego. In his announcement yesterday, he hilariously blamed drag shows that "corrupt our youth" (thought that was his job!) for his seizing of the Kennedy Center. All sorts of community events happen at the Kennedy Center in addition to the high art of opera, symphony, dance, and the Kennedy Center has hosted events specifically for LGBTQ youth in the DeeCee Metro area. How convenient a "cause" for a man who needs grandiosity to prove he exists, so Trump feigns outrage! I tell you, he's outraged. So much so that he's prepared to install his own gaudy lack of taste and tacky pursuit of gilded elegance into the character and the programming of the Center.

Hard pass.