What's wilder about the artists is all of them except Vanilla Ice put out statements saying they didn't know it was w Trump's Freedom 250. If it was one artist, I'd assume they were embarrassed into saving face, but that many acts?
throw in the indignity of seeing his name physically scraped off Kennedy Center, the cancellation of musical has-beens from his cheesy, self-referential 250 bash, and the entirely expected torrent of boos from Knicks fans, you have the pathological narcissist’s worst nightmare: public humiliation.