Patti LuPone insists we protect the Kennedy Center from "the buffoon"

For better or occasionally for worse, Patti LuPone always speaks her mind. She’s reached a status in the theater world that she can stop a show and air a grievance if she wants to, as she has famously before. Last night during a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York, she also performed an impassioned speech defending not just the Kennedy Center—which Trump claimed yesterday he’d close for two years for “complete rebuilding”—but arts and culture in the United States in general. 

“I think...