About That $25 Million That Went To The Kennedy Center That Trump Claims Was A Democrat Request – Just Look Who Is On The Board… Melania, Michelle, Mitch & Others
Following the passage of the unconstitutional $2.2 trillion stimulus bill, after flooding Wall Street with $1.5 trillion, as well as pushing the Federal Reserve to provide $4.5 trillion so the Treasury Department can buy up securities and looking towards another multi-trillion dollar stimulus, President Trump actually claimed that the $25 million going to the Kennedy Center was a Democrat request. While that may have been the case, look at who is on the board and you will understand that both sides, Democrats and Republicans, are fleecing the people of the united States while the people fight among themselves about which tyrants they want to vote for in November.
First, from CNS News:
(CNSNews.com) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended the inclusion of $25 million in funding for the Kennedy Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C., in the stimulus package under consideration by Congress, saying although it was a Democratic request, he didn’t have “a big problem with it.”
Besides the $25 million for the Kennedy Center, the Senate bill includes $75 million each for both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, down from $300 each allocated by the House stimulus bill, Fox News reports.
Trump said the original request was $35 million, and the Republicans were able to take off $10 million.
During a White House briefing with the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Trump was asked, “Both Republican and Democrat packages of the stimulus included $25 million worth of funding for the Kennedy Performance Arts Center here in Washington, D.C. Shouldn’t that money be going to masks and respirators?”
“I approved that, and I knew — it was $35 million, and we actually took off 10, but I’m a fan of that, although I haven’t spent time there, because I’m far too busy. I’d love to go there evenings but I’m too busy doing things because that’s more important for me than going there, but the Kennedy Center has suffered greatly, because nobody can go there. It’s essentially closed, and they do need some funding,” Trump said.
“I said, look, that was a Democrat request. That was not my request, but you’ve got to give them something. It’s something that they wanted. You know, it works that way — Democrats have treated us fairly. I really believe that we’ve had a very good back and forth, and I say that with respect to Chuck Schumer. I spoke to him a number of times, but they had requests also,” he said.
“So that was a request. There were 35 as you know, and it came down to 25. We got it down to 25 — we agreed. I said that’s a lousy sound bite. That’s not a good sound bite, but that’s the way life works. With that being said, the Kennedy center [sic], they do a beautiful job, an incredible job,” the president said.
“David Rubenstein does a fantastic job. He’s very much involved, and he puts up a lot of money, and he does things that a lot of people wouldn’t be able to do or do, but they’ve been essentially closed. They have tremendous deficits that have built up. I mean this thing has been devastating to it, so I didn’t have a big problem with it, but this was a request from the Democrats because of the fact that they have a facility that’s essentially closed,” he said.
“You couldn’t go there if you wanted to. If I wanted to go there and look at Romeo and Juliet. You know it would happen, they would say sorry, 250 people or 50 people, whatever it might be down to,” Trump said.
He didn’t have a problem with it? It’s unconstitutional! He should have vetoed the entire lot of it, but he didn’t just to keep people on his side itching for their $1,200 checks.
I’ve had this conversation with many people who say he has to engage in politics to “get things done.” Well, I ask you, what got done? The American people got a huge debt put on them and an enormous transfer of wealth occurred. That’s what got done… and all you got was a lousy $1,200 check, if you even got that.
Now, consider who is on the Board of Trustees at The Kennedy Center.
Here is a list:
Honorary Chairs
- Mrs. Melania Trump
- Mrs. Michelle Obama
- Mrs. Laura Bush
- Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Mrs. Jimmy Carter
The Board of Trustees
Officers
David M. Rubenstein, Chairman
Deborah F. Rutter, President
Jacqueline Badger Mars, Secretary
Michael F. Neidorff, Treasurer
Tracy Henke, Assistant Secretary
Members Appointed by the President of the United States
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Adrienne Arsht
Fred Eychaner
Sakurako Fisher
John Goldman
Lee Greenwood
Michael Huckabee
Valerie Jarrett
Victoria Reggie Kennedy
Michele Kessler
Karen Tucker LeFrak
Carl H. Lindner III
Michael Lombardo
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Andrés W. López
Bryan Lourd
Amalia Perea Mahoney
Barbara Goodman Manilow
Alyssa Mastromonaco
W. James McNerney, Jr.
Charles B. Ortner
Laura Ricketts
Kelly Roberts
Daryl Roth
David M. Rubenstein
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Susan S. Sher
Marc I. Stern
Bryan Traubert
Ranvir Trehan
Walter F. Ulloa
Reginald Van Lee
Jon Voight
Kelcy Warren
Phyllis Washington
Heather Washburne
Ann Marie Wilkins
Steven C. Witkoff
Andrea Wynn
Members Ex Officio Designated by Act of Congress
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Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State
Earl A. Powell III, Chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts
Muriel Bowser, Mayor, District of Columbia
Lewis Ferebee, Chancellor, DC Public Schools
Dan Smith, Acting Director, National Park Service
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Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education
Lonnie Bunch, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
Representative Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives
Representative Kevin McCarthy, Republican Leader of the House of Representatives
Representative Peter A. DeFazio
Representative Sam Graves
Representative Joseph P. Kennedy
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Representative Joyce Beatty
Representative Jason Smith
Senator Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader
Senator Charles E. Schumer, Senate Democratic Leader
Senator John Barrasso
Senator Thomas R. Carper
Senator Mark Warner
Senator Roy Blunt
Senator John Cornyn
Senior Counsel
Robert Barnett
Senior Advisor to the Chairman
Herbert V. Kohler, Jr.
Special Advisor to the Chairman
Cappy McGarr
Founding Chairman
Roger L. Stevens†
Chairmen Emeriti
James A. Johnson
Stephen A. Schwarzman
James D. Wolfensohn
President Emeritus
Michael M. Kaiser
Honorary Trustees
Buffy Cafritz
Kenneth M. Duberstein
Alma Gildenhorn
Jean Kennedy Smith
Ongoing Service
David C. Bohnett
Rose Kennedy Schlossberg
Anthony Welters
Emeritus Trustees
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Philip F. Anschutz
Anita Arnold
Colleen Bell
The Hon. Stuart A. Bernstein
Wilma E. Bernstein
Lois Betts
Roland Betts
Nancy Goodman Brinker
Elliot B. Broidy
Ronald W. Burkle
Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Governor Jon S. Corzine
Mrs. Edward Finch Cox
William M. Daley
Gordon J. Davis
Bo Derek
Betsy DeVos
Senator Bob Dole
Ronald I. Dozoretz
Edward Easton
Judith Ann Eisenberg
Stevie Eller
Emilio Estefan, Jr.
George Farias
Giselle Fernandez
Thomas C. Foley
Craig L. Fuller
Norma Lee Funger
Mary Galvin
David Girard-diCarlo
Vinod Gupta
Donald J. Hall, Jr.
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Mrs. William Lee Hanley, Jr.
James A. Haslam II
Helen Lee Henderson
Janet Hill
Joan E. Hotchkis
Frank Islam
Phyllis Middleton Jackson
Anne Johnson
The Hon. Brenda LaGrange Johnson
William “Bill” Johnson
Ann Jordan
Sheldon B. Kamins
Caroline Kennedy
Nancy G. Kinder
C. Michael Kojaian
Kathi Koll
Marlene A. Malek
Donna G. Marriott
David Mathews
Dorothy Swann McAuliffe
Donna C. McLarty
William F. McSweeny
The Hon. Norman Y. Mineta
Mary V. Mochary
Marilyn Carlson Nelson
Ron Nessen
Jack L. Oliver, III
Mary M. Ourisman
Robert Frank Pence
Ronald O. Perelman
Rebecca Pohlad
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Alma Powell
William Charles Powers
Penny Pritzker
Albert H. Quie
Gerald M. Rafshoon
Sumner M. Redstone
Catherine B. Reynolds
Gabrielle B. Reynolds
Shonda L. Rhimes
Mrs. A.A. Ribicoff
Dr. Condoleezza Rice
Susan Rice
Duane R. Roberts
Miles L. Rubin
Margaret Russell
Shirley W. Ryan
Leonard Sands
Joy A. Silverman
Joshua I. Smith
Dean A. Spanos
Dennis Stanfill
Alexandra C. Stanton
Jay Stein
Catherine Stevens
Alexander F. Treadwell
The Hon. Donna F. Tuttle
Romesh Wadhwani
The Hon. Lowell Weicker, Jr.
Ambassador Beatrice W. Welters
Thomas E. Wheeler
Elaine Wynn
† (Deceased)
Notice some of the names there: Melania Trump, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Rose Carter. Of course, they are honorary chairs, I get it, but they are tied to the center.
Additionally, note the members appointed by the president, which include actor Jon Voight, Lee Greenwood, Valerie Jarrett and others.
Note the major players as officers, including David Rubenstein.
Then notice the members ex officio designated by Act of Congress, which include Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, as well as Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy, along with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar.
Think what you will, but I don’t buy that this was merely a “Democrat request.”
If that is not telling enough, Washington Free Beacon is now reporting that after getting $25 million, the Kennedy Center will not be paying the National Symphony Orchestra.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts informed members of the National Symphony Orchestra that they would no longer be paid just hours after President Trump signed a $25 million taxpayer bailout for the cultural center, according to an email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Nearly 100 musicians will no longer receive paychecks after April 3, according to an email from the orchestra’s Covid-19 Advisory Committee.
“The Covid-19 Advisory Committee was broadsided today during our conversation with [Kennedy Center President] Deborah Rutter,” the email says. “Ms. Rutter abruptly informed us today that the last paycheck for all musicians and librarians will be April 3 and that we will not be paid again until the Center reopens.”
The email went out to members on Friday evening, shortly after President Trump signed the $2 trillion CARES Act, a stimulus package intended to provide relief to people left unemployed by the coronavirus pandemic. Congress included $25 million in taxpayer funding for the Kennedy Center, a provision that raised eyebrows from both Democrats and Republicans, but ultimately won support from President Trump. The bailout was designed to “cover operating expenses required to ensure the continuity of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and its affiliates, including for employee compensation and benefits, grants, contracts, payments for rent or utilities, fees for artists or performers,” according to the law’s text. The arts organization decided that the relief did not extend to members of the National Symphony Orchestra, its house orchestra.
“Everyone should proceed as if their last paycheck will be April 3,” the email says. “We understand this will come [as a] shock to all of you, as it did to us.”
Do you see it? We’re being had, and all due to the “invisible enemy”… only the enemy is not actually so invisible. It has names and faces and they are currently “serving” themselves and their friends to our wealth.
But hey, many of you will just yell the louder, “Trump 2020” because you can’t seem to put 2 and 2 together. It’s really time you break your idols!
