Patti LuPone: Trump’s Kennedy Center ‘Should Get Blown Up’

Robert De Niro is the Hollywood face of the anti-Trump Resistance. Patti LuPone is the Broadway version.

The legendary stage actress doesn’t get as much media attention as De Niro, but she’s just as vitriolic.

Take a New Yorker feature interview on the star’s colorful career. The story depicts the 76-year-old as an artist and icon, a true New Yorker who had to fight for everything she had.

Fame. Money. You name it.

If you haven’t read this yet then you need to read this right now. And I mean right now. I’ll wait. https://t.co/bV68owgaCo

— Adam Feldman (@FeldmanAdam) May 26, 2025

The feature also lets her rage against President Donald Trump’s recent takeover of The Kennedy Center. The DC institution, to the MAGA faithful, cared more about drag shows than Joe and Jane Sixpack. Trump inserted himself on the center’s board and made Richard Grenell its president.

That enraged LuPone, who took a page out of Madonna’s Resistance playbook. The Material Girl infamously dreamed of blowing up the White House after Trump’s 2016 electoral victory. The singer quickly backpedaled from the comments but faced no professional repercussions.

The same will likely hold for LuPone.

She’s even angrier at the rest of the country. She told me, more than once, that the Trumpified Kennedy Center “should get blown up.” In the S.U.V., apropos the current Administration, she pronounced, “Leave. New York. Alone. Make it its own country. I mean, is there any other city in America that’s as diverse, as in-your-face? It’s a live-or-die city, it really is. Stick it out or leave.”

Later in the interview, LuPone shared some grace for a fellow Broadway superstar who doesn’t align with her political views. Playwright David Mamet embraced conservatism later in his career, captured in the infamous 2008 Village Voice essay, “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal.”

LuPone worked with Mamet earlier in their careers and fell in love with his signature dialogue.

“The writing, once I understood the rhythm, became the easiest thing to speak,” she said. “I learned more about acting from David Mamet than I learned in four years at Juilliard.” Despite their divergent politics—Mamet has gone MAGA—their collaboration has endured.

LuPone previously raged against Christian conservatives. She slammed them as equal to Al Qaeda in 2018. She also blasted “old white men” and attempted to shame Sen. Lindsey Graham as a closeted gay man.

More recently, LuPone wondered if the United States would survive a second Trump term.

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