Anti-Trump Broadway Star Calls For Kennedy Center To Be ‘Blown Up’

Three-time Tony Award-winner Broadway star Patti LuPone, famed for her roles in “Evita” and the revival of “Gypsy,” blasted the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., whose management was expelled by President Trump, saying repeatedly that it “should get blown up.”

LuPone made her remarks in an interview with The New Yorker. In 2017, on the red carpet for the Tony Awards, she said she would never perform for President Trump. When she was asked why not, she answered, “Because I hate the mother***er, how’s that?”

Trump fired the president and chairman of the board of the Kennedy Center in February, along with other board members who were appointed by former President Biden, and replaced them with others who named Trump as the chairman. Trump told the new board members that the previous board spent “tremendous amounts of money,” adding, “I don’t know where they spent it. They certainly didn’t spend it on wallpaper, carpet or painting.”

“He said previous ‘programming was out of control with rampant political propaganda’ and featured ‘some very inappropriate shows’ including a ‘Marxist anti-police performance’ and ‘Lesbian-only Shakespeare,’” ABC News reported.

“We have to do the big productions that the masses and the public want to see, we want to have really good programming,” Kennedy Center President Ric Grenell said in February. “So the first thing that we’re doing … you’ve got to be at the Kennedy Center in December, because we are doing a big, huge celebration of the birth of Christ at Christmas. How crazy is it to think that we’re going to celebrate Christ at Christmas with a big traditional production to celebrate what we are all celebrating in the world during Christmastime, which is the birth of Christ.”

“The far left has morphed into violent extremists,” Grenell said in response to LuPone’s remarks. “This is completely unacceptable – from the same people who claim to be for tolerance and diversity. Everyone should condemn these radicals.”