Taxpayers Give $30 Million so NYC’s Shakespeare Festival can Assassinate Trump Onstage

TruthRevolt ^ | 06/13/2017 | Trey Sanchez

[ForYourChildren]

What a deal!

After learning that an actor dressed to look just like his father gets brutally murdered on stage in a production of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Donald Trump, Jr. asked, “I wonder how much of this 'art' is funded by taxpayers?"

Well, thanks to some digging by Adam Andrzejewski, founder of the federal watchdog OpenTheBooks.com, we now know the answer:

"Data at OpenTheBooks.com shows that over $4.1 million in federal, state and city grants funded the New York Shakespeare Festival (NYSF) – the parent company to Public Theater and its production, Shakespeare in the Park – over the past three years. The total amount since 2009? Nearly $30 million."

The National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) sought to ensure the Trumps that it had not funded this performance, but failed to disclose grants totaling $630,000 to NYSF over the last eight years. Such “art” couldn’t be made possible without those funds.

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[Uncle Sam 911]

Trump told us during the campaign no more money for the NEA and then put money in his budget for them. Lessons learned. How about keeping that promise???

[Steely Tom]

What happened to Kathy Griffin?

[DIRTYSECRET]

A cross in urine was better art.

[roadcat]

Tell us again why federally defunding programs like the NEA is such a terrible idea when a director of a play can rake in a six-figure salary paid for by local taxes and wealthy donors?

Totally defund the NEA. No more wasting tax dollars.

[realcleanguy]

In a Democrat led state, you live under a dictatorship.

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[Vehmgericht]

The taxpayer has been funding the left with billions of dollars. Much of this has continued under Trump.

[FewsOrange]

Et tu Bannon

[taterjay]

Defund. How much Fed money was involved in supporting the rodeo clown who was nearly lynched and hung for wearing a mask? ANSWER 0.

[HighSierra5]

It looks like there is nothing that can be done about this crap. Maybe fight fire with fire. Get a grant and produce a play denigrating the Left. For example, produce one that covers the life of an oppressed road worker who deals with his(or her) depression by chasing Barack and Hillary with a steamroller and squashing them like the cockroaches they are. Just a thought.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I have written a play where Obama is convicted of treason and shipped off to Gitmo.

When can we put it on?

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“American Express would like to clarify that our sponsorship of the Public Theater does not fund the production of Shakespeare in the Park nor do we condone the interpretation of the Julius Caesar play,” the company tweeted.

That’s only slightly disingenuous, because, as anyone with common sense knows, once the funds go into the Public Theater’s coffers, they mix together and can be used to fund any production.

[Bon mots]

Cut. Every. Last. Penny.