“The View” co-host made her pronouncement during a Thursday discussion on the daytime talk show about “Hamilton” producers saying they were canceling plans for the Broadway musical to perform at the Kennedy Center next year after Trump booted much of its board last month and named himself its chair.
Trump said at the time of the Kennedy Center moves, “We’re going make sure that it’s good and it’s not going be woke.”
“The fact that it wasn’t a discussion, it was a big smack to the arts — which don’t have a politics. The politics are, look at the differences in the actors. That’s the real statement,” Goldberg said of the diverse cast of “Hamilton.”
“So I understand why they did it,” Goldberg, who received the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2001, said of the “Hamilton” producers’ move.
“I have no plans to go back to the Kennedy Center until the Kennedy Center becomes what it was supposed to be, and that was a welcome place for all artists, no matter what your groove is,” she said.
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