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In reply to the discussion: There is no Music in the trump White House / no mention of the Arts....ever [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)He doesn't host performers or go to performances - I've never heard of him attending concerts or plays - and I haven't even read any reports about what kind of music he likes. Apparently he doesn't like any. The only art he seems to like consists of paintings of himself that he buys with money from his "charities" and displays in his cheesy resorts. There was a report about a painting he had in his tacky Versailles-redecorated-by-Saddam- Hussein's-pimp apartment in NYC that he claimed was a Renoir, but he had it not because he liked Renoir but because having a Renoir was a sign of his wealth. But it was a forgery or a reproduction, and even after it was pointed out to him that the original was in a museum in Chicago, he continued to insist it was the real thing. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/donald-trumps-fake-renoir Probably still does. But that's not art for art's sake, that's art for prestige's sake.
Love of the arts requires a soul. QED.