Actor John Lithgow criticized the presidency of Donald Trump as a “pure disaster” for the arts and compared it to the Coronavirus by his destructive force.
Lithgow made his comments after winning the best assent of the best actor in the Awards Olivier in London on Saturday, and was particularly upset by the acquisition of the president of the John F. Kennedy memorial center for the performing arts in Washington DC, according to Variety.
“Our administration has done some shocking and destructive things, but the one that hurts is that a bar is on the Kennedy center,” Lithgow said.
“Deborah Rutter was fired from her position as president, just although she had already resigned and had [several] Months to go. She is a very good friend of mine. We co -chanted a commission on the arts and spend three years discovering the state of the arts in the United States [was] In crisis. Well, now he is in crisis, “he exclaimed.
“First there were Coronavirus, now this is,” he added, before stating that the state of the doctor in the United States is a “pure disaster” and “really discouraging.”
“At this time, everyone is in a state of shock,” he said. But then he insisted that “bad times create a good art.”
Donald Trump announced in February that he intended to take care of the center, and then became the president of the organization since then, a list of artists grew canceled his shows in the center instead of an performance in the theater under the control of Trump.
Lithgow will get involved in a prolonged stay in the United Kingdom when it begins to film the newest Harry Potter Series that will begin production in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, this summer. Lithgow has been used to join the cast as the last to play JK Rowling’s Sage Wizard, Albus Dumbledore.
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