alexis causley 💙 Waabagiizhigo Kwe

MANUFACTURED. THE WHOLE CRISIS WAS MANUFACTURED Whistleblowers inside the Kennedy Center are now saying what everyone suspected the second Trump installed himself as chairman Officials halted repairs that were already planned and paid for. Then pointed at the building falling apart and used it as the excuse to shut the place down You break it on purpose. Then you "discover" it's broken. Then you get to close it, gut it, remake it however you want That's not mismanagement. That's a con job with a building as the mark Trump didn't take over the Kennedy Center to protect the arts. He took it over to control who gets a stage and who doesn't Staff who spent years running that institution are now watching it get dismantled by people who created the emergency they're "solving" Artists losing bookings. Programs getting cut. A cultural institution that survived five decades of actual wear and tear now collapsing because Trump's handpicked board needed a pretext This is the same playbook every single time. Manufacture the crisis. Point at the wreckage. Claim you're the only one who can fix it He did it to the press. He did it to the courts he doesn't like. Now he's doing it to a building full of pianos and stagehands Half the country will read this and shrug because it's "just" the Kennedy Center Watch how fast that shrug turns into rage when they do this exact move to something you actually care about