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No Wokesters, Please
President Trump, who’s taken over the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, said on Wednesday that he’d “turned down plenty” of candidates for its annual honors because “they were too woke. I had a couple of wokesters.”
“I’m sorry, did he say ‘wokesters’?” Seth Meyers said during his “Closer Look” segment on Thursday. “A ‘wokester’ sounds like a car your great-grandfather drove after the war.”
“Also, shout-out to the free-speech warriors going radio silent while the president just fully admits he’s punishing artists for their politics. You keep doing you, but only when it fits your worldview, you [expletive] hypocrites.” — SETH MEYERS
Trump also remarked that he’d always hoped to receive a Kennedy Center award himself, but somehow never got the call.
“Oh, you were waiting by the phone for a Kennedy Center award? What did you think you were going to get it for? I mean, I know he thought he should have won an Emmy for ‘The Apprentice,’ but the Kennedy Center honor is for performing artists who have contributed a lifetime to the culture. Did you put out an album we don’t know about? Were you in a band called Trumpawampa?” — SETH MEYERS
“You haven’t done anything for the arts, and you still sat by the phone saying, ‘I think this might be my year.’” — SETH MEYERS
“They don’t give these things out for dressing up as a garbage man and dancing to ‘Y.M.C.A.’” — SETH MEYERS
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