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[ThxOne Premium Member]

The "non literal Trump" not doing anything "literally" regarding the Kennedy center.

In February, Trump led an overhaul of the Kennedy Center's leadership by dismissing the previously-appointed Board of Trustees, along with longtime Kennedy Center chair David Rubenstein. Deborah Rutter, who served as president of the cultural center for over a decade, was also ousted.

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Former Kennedy Center president refutes Trump's critique of 'bad management'​

At a press conference on Wednesday at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, President Trump said he was "very involved" in selecting the group — a departure for the Kennedy Center Honors. Traditionally, the recipients are selected in a months-long, bipartisan undertaking by members of the Kennedy Center board with input from the general public and past honorees.

Under Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" signed into law in July, the Kennedy Center will receive $257 million. That is six times what it normally gets from Congress annually.

Also, Republican lawmakers on the House Appropriations Committee recently approved an additional $32 million for the performing arts center, under the condition that the Opera House would be renamed for Melania Trump, the first lady. Another bill introduced in the House would rename the Kennedy Center after Trump himself.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/13/nx-s1-5500305/kennedy-center-honors-announcement-kiss-strait-gaynor-stallone-crawford-trump

Clearly you understood what I said about being facetious and not taking everything literal. Rob, why would a person be facetious? What would they be facetious about? Would it be when they are speaking about lighthearted things or when they are speaking about serious topics? If you are able to comprehend like you claim, these are easy questions.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Right, I am just sitting under a tree at the park enjoying my lunch.

That's nice on a warm Summer day.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Clearly you understood what I said about being facetious and not taking everything literal. Rob, why would a person be facetious? What would they be facetious about? Would it be when they are speaking about lighthearted things or when they are speaking about serious topics? If you are able to comprehend like you claim, these are easy questions.

So you were not being literal when you said to not take Trump literally?

It was a facetious anti-literal rant?
Wow.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

They lied to us?
Who ever could have predicted THAT?

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

So you were not being literal when you said to not take Trump literally?

It was a facetious anti-literal rant?
Wow.

I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you could easily understand those questions... Man was I way wrong. You ARE dumb as a stump.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Nvm lol don't work

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

It'll keep you safe until you become domestic enemy number one for just being human, like sheep dogs keep sheep safe just so they can be killed later in an orderly fashion

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Welcome to the new world order where we genetically design you to be allergic to basic food...for climate change.

When the robots murder most of humanity, just remember it's to save earth from climate change (humans) too

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Computer Models Warned Us 50 Years Ago — Why Did We Ignore Them?

The First Alarming Predictions The First Alarming Predictions (image credits: wikimedia) Fifty years ago, scientists were already sounding the alarm about climate change. In the early 1970s, computer models developed by researchers like those at

climatecosmos.com

It's nothing new

"These early models, simple by today’s standards, still showed a clear trend: the climate was changing, and humanity was the cause."

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

20 agents to arrest a guy for throwing a sandwich, after he volunteered to turn himself in.

Meanwhile, insurrectionists get pardoned and freed.
Welcome to Facist Trumperica.

https://packaged-media.redd.it/24gsvs8x47jf1/pb/m2-res_472p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1755284400&s=b42728b9872f43e43c214cb56eb9875bcdba3064

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/us/politics/federal-agent-trump-sandwich-dc.html

you're an idiot

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

DC has been a sh!thole for over a decade

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Welcome to the new world order where we genetically design you to be allergic to basic food...for climate change.

When the robots murder most of humanity, just remember it's to save earth from climate change (humans) too

WTF? Given population collapse is eminent, why are worried about this $hit?

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

DC has been a sh!thole for over a decade

Way more than a decade. IIRC, DC had one of the nation's highest murder rates in 90s.