FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Newark International airport in Newark, NJ U.S., to spend a weekend at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminister, New Jersey, June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actors and other artists threatened on Monday to boycott Delta Airlines and Bank of America after they pulled their sponsorships of a New York production of William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" that portrays the assassinated Roman leader as U.S. President Donald Trump.
The companies ended their support of the production by the nonprofit Public Theater on Sunday. The move came hours after Trump's son Donald Jr. in a tweet questioned whether it was art or political speech.
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