Another day, another outrage that has captured headlines and sent social media into a feeding frenzy.

On Sunday, representatives with Delta Air Lines and Bank of America announced the companies were pulling funding from the New York Public Theater over the group’s production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.”

The reason: this rendition’s titular character, who (spoiler alert) is brutally stabbed to death at the end of the play, bears more than passing resemblance to President Donald Trump, sporting his signature hair and dressing in similar attire.

Similar to Kathy Griffin’s now infamous photo shoot a few weeks ago, where she held up an effigy of Trump’s severed head, conservatives and the president’s supporters screamed bloody murder. People took to Twitter, Facebook and other websites to call for companies supporting the theater group to pull funding and denounce them, claiming the actors and producers were “normalizing violence against the president.”

As you could tell by the title of this editorial, we were not exactly impressed by the theater’s decision ourselves.

If the purpose of art is to speak truth to power, we are not sure how depicting the execution of a president with historically low approval ratings, a media that criticizes his every word (even the misspelled ones) and an agenda that has faced opposition from every branch of government accomplishes that mission. Instead, this feels like another demonstration of the protracted temper tantrum that supporters of Hillary Clinton have been throwing since their candidate lost in November — assuming the actors were not somehow mocking the hysteria surrounding Trump’s election, that is.

That said, we still believe the theater has done nothing wrong. Art is art, regardless of its message or who it offends.

For one, we are sure that the actors were not endorsing the murder of the president. They were, like every artist does, trying to provoke a response from their audience.

But regardless, spite of what some claim, people should never feel some obligation to respect the president. Respect is always earned, and simply sitting in the world’s highest office should not fulfill that obligation on its own.

Heck, the U.S. would not even exist if our founding fathers had chosen to simply “respect” their leaders.

One of the great things about art is that it is a great equalizer — no one should be above the scorn of a writer, or musician or actor.

As for people who just claim the theater’s performance is “offensive,” well, sorry, but the First Amendment was not written to protect people from saying things the crowd already agrees with.

While Delta and Bank of America have the right to spend their money however they choose, deciding to pull their funding from the New York Public Theater should make anyone question just how committed to the arts their leaders are.

Opinions expressed are those of the editorial board consisting of General Manager Ambrosia Neldon and editors Scott Novak and Ted Yoakum.