Cutting the Arts

[ysabetwordsmith]

The Dumpling is now bragging about saving money by defunding government oil paintings.  Which is to say, cutting a vital support of the fine arts.  >_<  

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Even more skeevey than that...

[capri0mni]

...This is the man who took $20,000 that donors paid in good faith to his bogus Trump Foundation (thinking they were supporting research into children's cancer) to buy a six-foot tall portrait of himself.

Paraphrasing Lady Paulina from The Winter's Tale:

I'll not call him 'tyrant,' but this egotistical greed something savors of tyranny that makes him scandalous to the world.

[lone_cat]

Also, Bill Cassidy had the gall to invoke the size of the debt as a reason for voting for this bill after having voted for the Reverse Robin Hood tax bill, which should drop his credibility on that issue into negative numbers.

[arlie]

Official portraits of politicians are a vital support of the fine arts?

I guess I'm totally not plugged into either the artistic or the art-supporting communities.

I'd figured this was going to be about grants to artists etc. (Does the US even do them? Canada does, or at least did when I still lived there.)