Mike MasnickSep 24, 2025
This administration is made up of the pettiest people you can imagine. Setting aside tickets for a Kennedy Center performance to a MAGA group to heckle an artist who criticized the admin is such weak, pathetic shit. www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/23/l...

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Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian

Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.

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When #YasminWilliams emailed #KennedyCenter interim director #RichardGrenell in April expressing concern about #DEI rollbacks, he accused her of "vapidness" and said "Yes, I cut the DEl bullshit because we can’t afford to pay people for fringe and niche programming that the public won’t support".

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/kennedy-center-richard-grenell-yasmin-williams

Kennedy Center director snipes at musician for ‘vapidness’ over DEI concerns

Trump ally Richard Grenell sends series of hostile emails to Yasmin Williams despite saying he was ‘too busy’ to do so

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