{"id":127,"date":"2025-06-24T09:54:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T01:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cndesigners.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2025-06-24T09:54:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T01:54:50","slug":"trump-met-with-mixed-reception-at-kennedy-centers-showing-of-les-miserables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cndesigners.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/trump-met-with-mixed-reception-at-kennedy-centers-showing-of-les-miserables\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Met with Mixed Reception at Kennedy Center\u2019s Showing of \u2018Les Mis\u00e9rables\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive for a performance of Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em> at the Kennedy Center June 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Photo Win McNamee\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While attending a fundraiser at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump was booed, reported the Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president arrived with his wife, Melania, to support the arts center and to see the critically acclaimed musical Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>, adapted from the 1862 French epic novel by Victor Hugo, which criticizes society\u2019s treatment of members of the lower class. The musical gives voice to the lowliest sufferers as they ultimately plot a revolt against the French monarchy in the 19th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI love the songs, I love the play,\u201d Trump told Fox News<\/em> last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironically, Trump\u2019s critics revile him as just the kind of monarch against whom the Les Mis<\/em> characters mutiny. Last weekend, for instance, Trump sent in the Marines and National Guard to thwart Los Angeles protests in response to immigration raids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together, as the couple took their box seats, there were boos in the crowd, followed by chants of \u201cU-S-A.\u201d During intermission, they waved to the crowd and took photos that were met with both support and rage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The frosty reception is hardly surprising, as the president fired the entire Kennedy Center board of trustees appointed by Joe Biden, along with the George W. Bush\u2013appointed chairman David Rubenstein. He replaced them with his own political appointees, who in turn installed Trump as institution chair and fired longtime Kennedy Center president Deborah Rutter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this new position, Trump reportedly hopes to revamp the Kennedy Center\u2019s offerings and renovate the building. The move follows his larger plan to reshape American art and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kennedy Center has fallen on hard times, with a fiscal drop that has reportedly only increased since Trump\u2019s takeover in February. In early June, ticket sales alone were down by about $1.6 million, approximately 36 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s fundraising for the event included a $2 million opportunity to sit in a performance box, attend a VIP reception, and snap a photo with Trump. The president reportedly said that the evening brought in $10 million in support of the institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This does not account, however, for a loss of talent, with a large portion of the show\u2019s principal cast boycotting the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February, musician Ben Folds and opera singer Ren\u00e9e Fleming stepped down as artistic advisers, along with board treasurer TV producer Shonda Rhimes. Actress Issa Rae and musician Rhiannon Giddens also dropped out in protest of Trump\u2019s calls to get rid of \u201cwoke\u201d influences on the center, including drag shows and \u201canti-American propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The center has seen major program changes as well, among them, cancellation of the musical Hamilton<\/em> next year and the quiet cancellation and relocation of this year\u2019s Pride month events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The evening marked the first Broadway musical tour to hit the stage since Trump\u2019s takeover of the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event was well-attended with Trump officials, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, Conservative Political Action Conference President Matt Schlapp, Republican Senator Ted Cruz, former Senior Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, and Vice President JD Vance, who was also booed the last time he attended a concert at the Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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