Bleak Reality Inside Trump’s Empty Kennedy Center Revealed

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The devastating effect of Donald Trump’s MAGA takeover of the Kennedy Center has been revealed by a disillusioned tour guide.

Sandy Weiswasser, who has been volunteering as a tour guide at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for 18 years, told https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/us/politics/kennedy-center-trump.html" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/us/politics/kennedy-center-trump.html">The New York Times how desperate things have become at the venue amid plummeting ticket sales and https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-takeover-dooms-kennedy-center-shows-as-audiences-stay-away/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-takeover-dooms-kennedy-center-shows-as-audiences-stay-away/">an artists’ boycott that threatens its very existence.

Weiswasser described how there are some days when no one turns up for a free tour of the Kennedy Center at all.

On the days when a few people do show up, many are simply curious to see how bad things have become since the president’s controversial takeover of the venue.

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