If that wasn't enough, the Roman emperor, played by Gregg Henry, gesticulates just like Trump and his wife, Caplurnia, has a slavic accent. "Such discussion is exactly the goal of our civically-engaged theatre; this discourse is the basis of a healthy democracy".
Donald Trump Jr. retweeted someone linking the shooting to the production of Julius Caesar featuring a Trump-like Caesar.
"We have sponsored Shakespeare in the Park for 20 years".
Donald Trump Jr. simply appended the word "This" to the tweet from conservative TV personality Harlan Hill. "We have notified them of our decision to end our sponsorship as the official airline of The Public Theater effective immediately".
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Hill's tweet apparently refers to the Public's "Julius Caesar", which has stirred up controversy with an outdoor staging of the Shakespeare play that makes overt references to Trump and the current administration. "We are withdrawing our funding for this production".
For the record, we still don't know anything about the shooter, and whether it turns out to be politically motivated or not and whatever his politics, shooting people is a awful thing. On Sunday, he tweeted that he wasn't sure about the boundary between artistic expression and political speech: "I wonder how much of this "art" is funded by taxpayers?"
He also urged to others to donate to the Public Theater in light of the lost sponsors.
The subsequent pressure led to Bank of America and Delta to pull their support from the play this week. The Public Theater has always been - and will remain - of, by, and for the people. "However, no NEA funds have been awarded to support this summer's Shakespeare in the Park production of "Julius Caesar" and there are no NEA funds supporting the New York State Council on the Arts' grant to Public Theater or its performances", the statement read. Caesar was known for turning a republic into an empire.
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