Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service (Gift Article)

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“.. The ending of the tours comes after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a New York Times article detailing President Trump’s gutting of the iconic cultural institution.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

They don’t want people to see what a wreck they’ve made of the place. Empty, echoing, failed — a mob bust-out gone wrong.* *What do I mean by that? Usually gangsters tried to keep the place going for a while as they looted it. This was a botched job. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

“The ending of the tours comes after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a New York Times article detailing President Trump’s gutting of the iconic cultural institution... three volunteers had expressed worries to a reporter that the Kennedy Center would target the tour program in retribution.”

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is stopping free public tours of the center, which had been a mainstay of the cultural institution for more than five decades, according to an internal memo. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...?

The Kennedy Center BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE.

Like the tarp, closing the Center to tours is another desperate attempt to hide another Trump failure. Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

The Trump led Kennedy Center has taken out retribution against the 87 year old volunteer tour guide who was interviewed for an earlier story on the Kennedy Center. The Trump management has now cancelled all tours of the Kennedy Center. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

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Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service The decision to suspend tours indefinitely came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing President Trump’s dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

Last Monday, NYT published a feature about an 87-year-old volunteer who's been leading free Kennedy Center tours for 18 years. Apparently someone in the WH didn't like it. The tours stop tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u... #PsakiBriefing #LastWord

Tours ended after a volunteer tour guide was highlighted in a NYT article about Trump's dismantling of the. Before the message was sent out Thursday, 3 volunteers told a reporter that the Kennedy Center might target the tour program in retaliation...and so they did. 🤬 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

The Kennedy Center Halts Its Free Public Tours After 50 Years of Service. The decision to suspend tours indefinitely came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a NY Times article detailing Trump’s gutting of the Kennedy Center. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

Point out the obvious and self-inflicted decline? They just silence you. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

“The ending of the tours comes after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a New York Times article detailing President Trump’s gutting of the iconic cultural institution.” Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

* ₱Ɇ₮₮Ɏ ₱Ø₮Ʉ₴ ₴₳₵₭₴ VØⱠɄ₦₮ɆɆⱤ₴ Sandy Weiswasser, 87, has been guiding visitors for 18 years, was profiled in a Times article saying: “This place used to be thriving, busy & crowded, Now it’s a black hole”

The act of an authoritarian president, after the @nytimes.com reported on the tours. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

This is what narcissistic abusers do. When someone else is given praise, the limelight, or outshines them they are aggressively stamped out because “how dare they take the attention away from me?” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

NYT (gift link) Kennedy Center has halted free public hours "after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a NYT article detailing Trump’s gutting .. after 3 volunteers expressed worries .. that the Kennedy Center would target the tour program in retribution" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

These absolute ghouls www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

I called it as soon as I read the article about the courageous woman giving tours. The most selfish, petty, and hateful group of people. They have no business running a lemonade stand let alone the Kennedy Center.

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Sandy Weiswasser, 87, a retired teacher and living patron saint of tour docents: “This place used to be really thriving and busy and crowded,” Ms. Weiswasser was quoted as saying. “Now it’s a black hole.” May I be so bold if my moment ever comes.

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The Petulant President can’t stand the truth. “The ending of the tours comes after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a New York Times article detailing President Trump’s gutting of the iconic cultural institution.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

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Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service The decision to suspend tours indefinitely came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing President Trump’s dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center.

And the inevitable follow up www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

Petty, vindictive and thin-skinned. TACO too www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u... Christ on a fucking sidecar

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Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u... “We are conducting a review of campuswide tour routes to ensure they provide the best possible experience for our visitors,” a Kennedy Center spokesman, P.J. Elliott, said in an emailed statement.

After getting bad press from a NYT interview with a tour guide. They’ve stopped the tour program. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

but of course… one cannot criticize the actions of a King https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/kennedy-center-tours.html

“The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is stopping free public tours of the center, which had been a mainstay of the cultural institution for more than five decades, according to an internal memo. The memo did not provide a reason for halting the tour program...”

Once again, everything Trump ruins everything he touches. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u... Again, the Snowflake in Chief is trying to take over everything and smother any dissent. He's acting like an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh. Well, some of them were totally erased afterwards.....

A feisty, smart, experienced Kennedy Center volunteer tour guide, an 87-year-old woman, was featured in a NYTimes story a few days ago. The Kennedy Center, now 100% controlled by Trump toadies, shut down the tour guide program. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

Everything Trump touches is destroyed by him. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

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Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u... What a petty little man.

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u... Toddler tRump." If I can't have it,nobody can have it!"

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“The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is stopping free public tours… The ending of the tours comes after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a New York Times article detailing President Trump’s gutting of the iconic cultural institution.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

The NYTimes did a nice story last Monday about a lady who acts as a volunteer tour guide at the Kennedy Center, has been for decades, even during its recent down time. Really nice. So today the Kennedy Center halted all tours. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

I'm old enough to remember when our president wasn't a convicted sexual abuser, documented kiddy-diddling (adjacent) fragile little bitch. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

#Kennedy Center #President #Trump #SHUT UP, PIGGY 🐷 🌐 www.newsmart.ch

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( I am heartbroken. I was so proud of the kennedy center, loved how open to the community it was ) The decision to suspend tours indefinitely came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing Trump’s dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

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Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

Trump is a typical bully. Iran beats his ass so he takes it out on volunteer tour guides. Pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

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Trump retribution tour continues. Why do you allow this to continue Sen. Kevin Cramer, Sen. John Hoeven, Rep Julie Fedorchak? It's national news you must know of it, yet you sit in your silence & lack of ethics as one man continues to DESTROY American institutions! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

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Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u... Anyone who read the original articles knew this would happen, and fast. Such petty shit!

🎁🔗: Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

This should theoretically be a goft article. The Trump admin has literally gutted the Kennedy Center. Artwork destroyed, moved, possibly stolen. This is nazi shit. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/kennedy-center-tours.html

This should theoretically be a goft article. The Trump admin has literally gutted the Kennedy Center. Artwork destroyed, moved, possibly stolen. This is nazi shit. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/kennedy-center-tours.html

Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

More destruction of venerable institutions by our petty tyrant. If he can't force his name on it, no one will get to see it. Thug. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

The ending of the tours comes after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a NYT article detailing Trump’s gutting of the iconic cultural institution. B4 the memo was circulated on Thur., 3 volunteers expressed worries to a reporter that the KenCen would target the tour program in retribution.

Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

So much winning… Trump is such a jerk. “This place used to be really thriving and busy and crowded,” Ms. Weiswasser was quoted as saying. “Now it’s a black hole.” Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u... Leave it to Trump

Everything Trump Touches Dies. #ETTD Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

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( I am fu**ing heartbroken. I was so proud of the kennedy center, loved how open to the community it is. Bitter, hateful turd doesn't even care about it, just can't bear to leave it alone.) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

Retribution is a hell of a drug https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/kennedy-center-tours.html?unlocked_article_code=1.11A.6NTg.aJg-lt0IqKIR&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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