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Plusieurs artistes ont annulé leur venue au Kennedy Center, haut lieu culturel de la capitale américaine récemment rebaptisé Trump-Kennedy Center par son conseil d’administration, où siègent des proches du président républicain.

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00:00We are back now with the growing fallout involving the Kennedy Center and President Trump's push
00:04to leave his mark on that cultural institution. You've got more artists now pulling out of
00:09scheduled events, including the Cookers. They're a jazz band. They were set to perform a couple
00:13of concerts on New Year's Eve, but they've now joined a growing list of artists backing out.
00:18That latest wave coming after the Trump-appointed board voted unanimously to rename the center
00:23the Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts,
00:28as you see there. The president's name added to the building earlier this month.
00:32I want to bring in our White House correspondent, Yamiche Alcindor, who's joining us now. Okay,
00:35Yamiche, this has been a thing that has been building for a bit now. Let's start with the
00:40latest and the Cookers, this jazz group. What are they saying about this decision to back out?
00:45Well, interestingly, this group, the Cookers, they're not saying in particular that this is
00:50tied to the name change of the building, but they're essentially saying that the atmosphere
00:54has been one that they don't want to perform in. I want to read to you part of their statement.
00:57They say jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless consensus on freedom, freedom of
01:03thought, of expression, and of the full human voice. Some of us have been making this music
01:08for many decades, and that history still shapes us. They go on to say our hope is that this moment
01:12will leave space for reflection, not resentment. So again, not specifically saying that the
01:17president's actions are what's causing them to cancel these concerts, but essentially hinting at
01:21that, Hallie. And Yamiche, it's not just the Cookers, right? I mean, you look at,
01:25I think there's a run at Hamilton, for example, that ended up getting 86'd basically by them.
01:32And when you look at the bigger picture, the Kennedy Center has typically and traditionally,
01:36as you well know, having lived and covered D.C. for so long, been pretty nonpartisan.
01:40That's right. Even though President Trump, when you ask him, he would say that the Kennedy Center
01:44was sort of biased against conservatives. But for the most part, people have said that this is a
01:49nonpartisan performing arts center that welcomed all sorts of performances.
01:53But the president essentially was saying that the building was getting too liberal and was
01:58too welcoming, essentially, to performances and people that he didn't agree with. And now we've
02:03seen this fallout. We've seen ticket sales go down. We've seen people canceling performances. We've
02:08also seen people just simply uncomfortable with the building. And let's remember that this renaming
02:11really is the renaming of a memorial. This isn't just sort of the Capitol Arena, which is where sports
02:17teams play. This is a memorial that was dedicated to John F. Kennedy Jr., someone who, of course,
02:23was killed while serving our country, murdered while serving our country. So the Kennedy family
02:28has been very outspoken, very angry about this. And you now see these artists that are either hinting
02:32or full on saying that they don't want to be in this space because of President Trump.
02:36And what about this, some of the stuff that's happened with the website, the newly renamed for the
02:40newly renamed center?
02:41Well, Hallie, of course, it's a little bit of a troll here. This South Park, this former South
02:47Park writer, because the president had been talking and hinting at the idea that he might rename the
02:52Performing Arts Center, this person actually purchased both TrumpKennedyCenter.org and
02:57TrumpKennedyCenter.com. So there's literally a comedian that owns these websites, so they can't
03:03change the name of the website right now, at least not into those two. And then if we can show
03:07people the homepage of TrumpKennedyCenter.org, if you look up there, there's the red and there's
03:12all this. And it maybe kind of looks like a regular website. But when you scroll down,
03:16the website says the next events at the Trump Kennedy Center are to ring in the new year with
03:20a performance by the, quote, Epstein dancers. That, of course, being a reference to the late
03:25convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who, of course, has had a lot of controversy. The president
03:29has been tied to him just as a friend. He has not been charged with any wrongdoing. He has been
03:34accused of any wrongdoing. But the fact that the Epstein files are something that's mentioned on
03:38this website really is just trolling President Trump. So it really is, in some ways, a reminder
03:43that as this was all building, there were people that were very much against this that were making
03:48their own kind of moves. Hallie. Yamiche, thank you very much for that reporting. Appreciate that.
03:53We thank you for watching. And remember, stay updated on breaking news and top stories on the
03:58NBC News app or watch live on our YouTube channel.
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