The Kennedy Center didn't take too kindly to Whitney Cummings' Trump joke

Earlier today, Netflix began streaming the ceremony to potentially dozens of subscribers bored enough to watch celebrities praise Bill Maher and claimed the Kennedy Center cut the joke. “While it’s our preference not to cut jokes from anyone’s set, The Kennedy Center has the contractual right to do so,” a Netflix spokesperson told THR. Traditionally, Netflix doesn’t give two shits about the content of the jokes on its platform. After all, the streamer recently released an hour of standup from Tony Hinchcliffe. 

The Kennedy Center has been in the middle of Trump world controversies for the last year as the president insisted on firing its board of trustees, installing himself as chairman, and awkwardly putting his name on the building before it was removed in a shroud of darkness. 

Though on her podcast Good For You, Cummings called the venue’s staff “amazing” people who “don’t want to silence anyone,” she was nevertheless silenced by the amazing people who work for Donald Trump. However, even though the joke leaked anyway by “someone that was in the audience, a journalist or something,” the venue’s staff told her, “‘We need to cut it from the broadcast.'” Unfortunately, her appeals of “who cares?” did nothing to convince them otherwise. 

At least according to Cummings, who’d like a Netflix special again someday, what’s more important is that everyone knows Netflix did not censor her. “I was super clear that Netflix did not cut anything from my Mark Twain prize set. Netflix always supports comedy and comics,” she wrote on X. “Quit spreading rumors ya weirdos.” Yeah, ya weirdos, quit spreading rumors about the company gracious enough to gift us a new Louis C.K. special the world couldn’t help but completely ignore.