The current Trump-Kennedy Center is not the one we contracted with. It now represents a regime that has repeatedly demonstrated its hostility to many in the arts and to freedom of expression.
Alas, our land is being being given over to oligarchs, billionaires of a new Gilded Age. Trump is their authoritarian enabler, signing a succession of executive orders.
While few tears were shed over Maduro's political demise, the United States' unlawful and unauthorized hostile action in Venezuela has signaled to other powerful countries ruled by authoritarians that there are no longer any guardrails confining the use of deadly force to attack, occupy and loot a sovereign state.