Broadway star Patti LuPone, a fervent critic of President Donald Trump, is advocating that the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, now under Trump’s stewardship, should be “blown up.”
In a profile of LuPone, 76, published by The New Yorker on Monday, author Michael Schulman wrote LuPone told him “more than once” that the center, considered the cultural hub of Washington, D.C., should be blown up. It is not known whether she was being literal or if the comment was made in another context. Newsmax reached out to The New Yorker and Schulman for comment.
“President Trump cares deeply about American arts and culture, which is why he is revitalizing historic institutions like the Kennedy Center to their former greatness,” White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly told Newsmax.
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