Officers

David M. Rubenstein, Chairman

Deborah F. Rutter, President

Jacqueline Badger Mars, Secretary

Michael F. Neidorff, Treasurer

Tracy Henke, Assistant Secretary

Members Appointed by the President of the United States

Members Ex Officio Designated by Act of Congress

Senior Counsel

Robert Barnett

Senior Advisor to the Chairman

Herbert V. Kohler, Jr.

Special Advisor to the Chairman

Cappy McGarr

Founding Chairman

Roger L. Stevens†

Chairmen Emeriti

James A. Johnson

Stephen A. Schwarzman

James D. Wolfensohn

President Emeritus

Michael M. Kaiser

Honorary Trustees

Buffy Cafritz

Kenneth M. Duberstein

Alma Gildenhorn

Jean Kennedy Smith

Ongoing Service

David C. Bohnett

Rose Kennedy Schlossberg

Anthony Welters

Emeritus Trustees

† (Deceased)

Notice some of the names there:  Melania Trump, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Rose Carter.  Of course, they are honorary chairs, I get it, but they are tied to the center.

Additionally, note the members appointed by the president, which include actor Jon Voight, Lee Greenwood, Valerie Jarrett and others.

Note the major players as officers, including David Rubenstein.

Then notice the members ex officio designated by Act of Congress, which include Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, as well as Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy, along with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar.

Think what you will, but I don’t buy that this was merely a “Democrat request.”

If that is not telling enough, Washington Free Beacon is now reporting that after getting $25 million, the Kennedy Center will not be paying the National Symphony Orchestra.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts informed members of the National Symphony Orchestra that they would no longer be paid just hours after President Trump signed a $25 million taxpayer bailout for the cultural center, according to an email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Nearly 100 musicians will no longer receive paychecks after April 3, according to an email from the orchestra’s Covid-19 Advisory Committee.

“The Covid-19 Advisory Committee was broadsided today during our conversation with [Kennedy Center President] Deborah Rutter,” the email says. “Ms. Rutter abruptly informed us today that the last paycheck for all musicians and librarians will be April 3 and that we will not be paid again until the Center reopens.”

The email went out to members on Friday evening, shortly after President Trump signed the $2 trillion CARES Act, a stimulus package intended to provide relief to people left unemployed by the coronavirus pandemic. Congress included $25 million in taxpayer funding for the Kennedy Center, a provision that raised eyebrows from both Democrats and Republicans, but ultimately won support from President Trump. The bailout was designed to “cover operating expenses required to ensure the continuity of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and its affiliates, including for employee compensation and benefits, grants, contracts, payments for rent or utilities, fees for artists or performers,” according to the law’s text. The arts organization decided that the relief did not extend to members of the National Symphony Orchestra, its house orchestra.

“Everyone should proceed as if their last paycheck will be April 3,” the email says. “We understand this will come [as a] shock to all of you, as it did to us.”

Do you see it?  We’re being had, and all due to the “invisible enemy”… only the enemy is not actually so invisible.  It has names and faces and they are currently “serving” themselves and their friends to our wealth.

But hey, many of you will just yell the louder, “Trump 2020” because you can’t seem to put 2 and 2 together.  It’s really time you break your idols!