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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Mar 14, 2025, 07:51 PM Friday

After JD Vance is booed, Kennedy Center head urges 'diversity and inclusion'

When Vice President JD Vance took his seat Thursday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington, he was met with a chorus of boos from the packed concert hall. Vance and the second lady, Usha Vance, were attending a performance by the National Symphony Orchestra, which was already seated onstage when the crowd spotted the pair and erupted into loud boos and shouts for more than 30 seconds. The vice president waved and appeared to smile.

On Friday morning, Richard Grenell, an ally of President Donald Trump made interim president of the Kennedy Center by Trump’s new board of trustees, sent an email to the center’s staff, reviewed by The Washington Post, stating that he “received several messages from Kennedy Center staffers sharing their embarrassment over more than a few Symphony patrons loudly booing the Vice President and his wife last night.”

“As the premier Arts organization in the United States of America, we must work to make the Kennedy Center a place where everyone is welcomed,” Grenell wrote. “We clearly have work to do. And I hear your outrage.”

He cited the center’s diversity as a strength. “As President, I take diversity and inclusion very seriously,” he wrote. “I have met with many of you, and I love that we are Christian, Muslim, Jewish, agnostic, gay, straight, black, white, Hispanic and absolutely different.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jd-vance-booed-arrives-kennedy-035914851.html

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After JD Vance is booed, Kennedy Center head urges 'diversity and inclusion' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday OP
In that environment bucolic_frolic Friday #1
Note that this is neither The Onion nor Andy Borowitz... regnaD kciN Friday #2
"As the premier Arts organization in the United States of America..." sop Friday #3
Fire him! Impeach him! Deport him! Whichever is quicker. Norrrm Friday #4
Vance acts like a Nazi and Trump acts like a Russian asset. We do not need that kind of diversity. walkingman Friday #5
Oh FUCK OFF!!! hatrack Friday #6
My sentiments exactly. Scrivener7 Friday #7
Aren't those words banned in Trump's America? newdeal2 Friday #8
I'm so sick of these right wing nut jobs Diamond_Dog Friday #9
You have work to do? Everything was fine until you all fucked it up. Baitball Blogger Friday #10

regnaD kciN

(26,843 posts)
2. Note that this is neither The Onion nor Andy Borowitz...
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 07:56 PM
Friday


It reminds me of the old definition of "chutzpah": Killing your father and mother, then pleading for mercy because you're an orphan.

newdeal2

(1,977 posts)
8. Aren't those words banned in Trump's America?
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 08:20 PM
Friday

And those groups he described erased from history in MAGA world.

Diamond_Dog

(36,268 posts)
9. I'm so sick of these right wing nut jobs
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 08:28 PM
Friday

Crying over not being accepted and getting their fee fees hurt!

Maybe he needs to go sit in the corner and suck his thumb.

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