The president of the Kennedy Center on Friday fiercely criticized a musician’s sudden decision to cancel a Christmas Eve performance at the venue days after the White House announced that Donald Trump’s name would be added to the facility.

“Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure — is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution,” the venue’s president, Richard Grenell, wrote in a letter to musician Chuck Redd that was shared with The Associated Press.

In the letter, Grenell said he would seek $1 million in damages “for this political stunt.”

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    17 hours ago

    I’m not sure threatening performers with million-dollar lawsuits is the best way to attract new performers to your venue.

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      12 hours ago

      I was going to call out the same thing. This looks so pathetic. It’s basically the new version of that dumb sharpie modification he made to the weather map in his first term. What a loser.

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    You know… this is the first time I saw the tacked on “Donald Trump” they didn’t even manage to match the font of the original name. They somehow did a worse job then “The Ichy & Scratchy & Poochy show” did in the Simpsons.

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      15 hours ago

      Everything about this administration, starting with Taco, is just so pathetic.

      Every headline I read about all of these people and their ideology, what they say, and how they execute their roles just screams: “pathetic”.

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    17 hours ago

    Oh you don’t like that?

    Well here’s some advice for ya

    Suck a dick, suck a dick, suck a dick, and by the way suck a dick.

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    It sounds like the Kennedy center needs to cease to exist. It would be better for it not to be there than it would for it to branded by a dictator and presided over by this piece of shit Grenell.

    As of right now, the center has no significant value and is a disgrace.

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    This is all the saddest shit. The US is like watching your best friend get addicted to drugs and become a prostitute. Intervention is needed!