I particularly like Bedlamistan.
Donno. But people will come back in droves. Trump can’t even get 3rd rate acts to his yuge ‘celebration’. Everyone knows that being associated with him is gonna ruin their career (and most of those folks are playing county fairs).
Everything he touches…
To my non-lawyerly eyes, It immediately strikes me as a bad-faith argument. To cite the donations that would be lost, and not the new ones that would be gained, is conspicuously lacking in relevant facts.
Which made me curious what the lawyerly answer is. Do lawyers preparing an official court filing have an obligation to present a full financial argument, or just half of one?
(Yes, I know in this case that it’s irrelevant bullshit, but humor me.)
I don’t think that it’s hard to interpret why artists backed out and Trump wants to close it for two years.
It’s because he put his name on it an NOBODY wants to be associate with that… thing.
It’s also because of Trumps toadys being the board of directors. As usual, they haven’t a clue what they are doing. Maybe they can book the Partridge Family. Or the Bradys.
Those would be partially zombie acts.
“Bring out your dead. DING! Bring out your dead”
“I’m not quite dead yet, actually, I’m feeling better.”
It’s approaching that Time of the Season.
Speaking of donors, the Washington National Opera is hemorrhaging donors because they don’t want the Kennedy Center to steal the funds. As they’ve already been doing.
For what it’s worth, The Cowsills – the family band that inspired The Partridge Family – is performing again (they’ll be performing not far from me next month as part of the Happy Together tour). As far as I know, nobody associated with Trump ever approached them to perform for him.
Love the phrase “shouty briefs.” Band name!
And as a fan who has kept up with them over the years, I know they would never do such a thing. From the clips I’ve seen, they put on a pretty good show. You should check it out if you like sixties pop music.
I did not mean to disparage the Partridges or the Cowsills by suggesting they would play for Trump.
I’ve already attended a Cowsills performance – back in the 1960s, when they were still hot, having just released Indian Lake. It was at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City.
And, yes, I’m that old.
My very first concert was the Cowsills in 1968 when I was 14. 
I love this comment on the Trump people trying to use hydrogen peroxide to solve their alfae crisis:
Y’all, not to be a huge nerd but for the reflecting pool you would need a minimum of about 8,000 liters of 12% hydrogen peroxide to reach the 50 parts per million concentration to kill algae…
Is this what happens when you have 0 scientists in your administration?
It’s been argued that Trump’s painting the reflecting pool blue has actually made the problem worse. It’s like the way he handled Iran. Now that the algae knows that it can blockade the Reflecting Pool, it knows that it can charge us to keep it clear. We’re worse off than we were before we started he War on Algae.
And not a word about the Algae giving up its enriched uranium.
(Quote of Cal’s quote) - I’ve also read that, if you’re going to treat algae with hydrogen peroxide, you need to do it at night, as UV rays cause it to break down into water and oxygen (hence why it is sold in dark brown bottles).
More on the Algae problem:
Make Algae Great Again!
It’s unclear exactly how much hydrogen peroxide is being poured into the pool, but you need a lot to make any difference in a 6.5 million gallons of water, Goodale noted.
A “tanker truck would be an appropriate size vessel” for the hydrogen peroxide to make any real difference in the pool, Goodale said.
Maybe we could pay the algae $300 billion to go away?
Or, I got a brilliant idea-- we take the enriched uranium we confiscate from Iran and dump it into the reflecting pool. Kills all the algae, and at night the pool will glow merrily.
This is a reflection of every single project he has been involved in. It would be much cheaper for the USA and the world to buy him an island and build a McDonalds on it.
Do you want a radioactive swamp creature rampaging through DC? Because this is how you get a radioactive swamp creature rampaging through DC.