Donald Trump's appreciation of art

 

Donald Trump's allies on the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted to put his name on it. They justify it by saying that Trump budgeted money to renovate it.  Well, a good president would do that without trying to put his name on the building. A good president would recognize that the building is a memorial to a president who was assassinated.  A good president would realize all the damage he is doing to the arts, particularly those trapped in having to perform there, like the National Symphony Orchestra. 

Trump is none of those things. Furthermore, he has no regard for the arts, as demonstrated by his previous disregard for them.

Donald Trump Has a History of Pulverizing Historic Buildings

"Close to the top of the 11-story building there were two limestone relief panels of two nearly naked women brandishing large scarves, as if dancing, in which the Metropolitan Museum of Art had expressed a strong interest for its sculpture collection. The Metropolitan, one of the largest and most important museums in the world, had also wanted to add to its department of applied 20th century art the six-by-nine meter, geometric-patterned bronze latticework that hung over the entrance at Bonwit Teller. By all accounts, Trump had agreed to donate both, if his workers were able to remove them from the walls.

The New York Times and The Washington Post reconstructed what happened next. Their investigations demonstrated not just that Trump broke his promise and destroyed valuable art. The journalists discovered that, when his cultural crime caused an uproar, Trump hid behind a pseudonym and lied to the public: “What followed was a display of arrogance, excuse-making and avoidance of tough questions that is familiar to anyone who has observed Trump’s interactions with the media throughout his campaign for the White House.”

Here's what he destroyed.