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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 Trumps new board of trustees, sent an email to the centers 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 centers 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

bucolic_frolic
(49,243 posts)Vance is the DEI hire? And he got booed?
Irony takes a pratfall.
regnaD kciN
(26,846 posts)
It reminds me of the old definition of "chutzpah": Killing your father and mother, then pleading for mercy because you're an orphan.
sop
(13,140 posts)Hahahahahaha...
Norrrm
(800 posts)He's outta the Trump club.
walkingman
(8,950 posts)hatrack
(62,040 posts)God, these simpering, whining MORONS. Enough!
Scrivener7
(54,665 posts)
newdeal2
(1,987 posts)And those groups he described erased from history in MAGA world.
Diamond_Dog
(36,297 posts)Crying over not being accepted and getting their fee fees hurt!
Maybe he needs to go sit in the corner and suck his thumb.