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Deadline Hollywood reports:

The Kennedy Center just lost another patron. Whoopi Goldberg announced on The View today that she no longer will attend Kennedy Center performances in light of the Donald Trump board takeover that has prompted a raft of changes at the venue including firings and show cancellations.

During today’s “Hot Topics” segment of the ABC daytime talk show, Goldberg and the rest of the panel were discussing Wednesday’s announcement by Hamilton producers Jeffrey Seller and Lin-Manuel Miranda that they have scotched a planned 2026 Kennedy Center engagement of Miranda’s smash musical.

Goldberg had a particularly strong reaction to the situation, saying that Trump’s firing of the Center’s previous bipartisan board “was a big smack to the arts, which don’t have a politics.”

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