The Center for Performative Preening

We used to have a fairly impressive Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, which has now been neutered by the Orange Man, who began the process by adding his own name and an extra The to the Kennedy Center's facade. That was comical enough, but to punish Orange Man for his preening, the performing artists then began to preen themselves. A run of "Hamilton"? Canceled. The world premiere of Philip Glass's Lincoln Symphony? Canceled. A season of the Washington National Opera? Canceled. Martha Graham Dance Company? Canceled. Amd so it went, as one company after another tried to punish Orange Man by punishing Washington's art lovers.

And Orange Man responded as only he would do, by closing the Kennedy Center for two years effective July 4, the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence. Take that, everyone.