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Patti LuPone Calls for ‘Trumpified’ Kennedy Center to Be ‘Blown Up’

The Broadway star expressed her extreme disdain at Trump’s takeover of the performing arts center.

Broadway sensation Patti LuPone is adamant that she wants to see the “Trumpified Kennedy Center” get “blown up.” In an interview with The New Yorker published Monday, the two-time Tony and Grammy Award winner expressed her frustration at President Trump’s recent takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She’s worried that the theater has now gone corporate, reverting to “the gaiety phase of Broadway, when it was just follies and Ziegfeld girls.” Reporter Michael Schulman noted that LuPone told him, “more than once, that the Trumpified Kennedy Center ‘should get blown up.’” Trump named himself chair of the Kennedy Center’s board back in February after firing former president Deborah Rutter. This prompted many shows and performers to boycott the performing arts center, most notably several cast members from Trump’s favorite musical, Les Misérables, and the smash hit Hamilton, a move its producer Jeffrey Seller said was in protest of the president’s takeover of the institution. LuPone herself has never been a fan of Trump. While walking the red carpet at the 2017 Tony Awards, she said would never perform for Trump “because I hate the motherf---er, how’s that?”