US vice JD Vance and his wife Usha were booed when visiting a concert in the renowned Kennedy Center in the US capital Washington. On a video of a journalist of the “Guardian” you can see how the vice and the second lady take their seats in the rank. Then the spectators start to build loudly in the hall.
The couple attended a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra. The “Washington Post” reported that the concert started with around half an hour late due to the high security measures. The video of the incident shows how Vance reacts to the boos. He waves and takes a sip from a wine glass. According to reports, Vance and his wife Usha looked at the entire performance.
Trump wants to bring a cultural institution to line
US President Donald Trump had brought the Kennedy Center under his control shortly after taking office. He released several members of the board of trustees, took over the chair and made the former US ambassador in Germany, Richard Grenell. Trump spoke of a “golden age of art and culture”.
The step is an expression of a greater cultural struggle in the USA. Trump justified the step, among other things, that the institution is too “Woke”. “We didn’t like what they showed,” he said. The award -winning musical “Hamilton” had canceled upcoming appearances in the Kennedy Center after Trump’s takeover.
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Grenell is heading against the left
The newly elected president of the facility, Grenell, reacted to the incident around Vance on the platform X. Among other things, he wrote: “The intolerant left are radicals that cannot even be sitting in a room with people who don’t choose as they do.”
In the magnificent building of the Kennedy Center on the Potomac River, all genres of theater, dance and music are traditionally shown. It was named after former President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963).