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MAGA loyalists seethe after ‘Hamilton’ cancels reveals over Trump

Editorial Board Published March 6, 2025
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The creators of “Hamilton” refuse to let their hit musical be carried out subsequent yr on the Kennedy Heart, the place a now-canceled 8-week run was slated to assist rejoice the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence—and this snub has MAGA acolytes seeing pink.

President Donald Trump purged the board of the performing arts middle in February and has since been made chairman, which brought on an exodus of board members and performers.

“This latest action by Trump means it’s not the Kennedy Center as we knew it,” present creator Lin-Manuel Miranda mentioned in a joint interview through The New York Occasions with lead producer Jeffrey Vendor. “The Kennedy Heart was not created on this spirit, and we’re not going to be part of it whereas it’s the Trump Kennedy Heart. We’re simply not going to be a part of it.”

And whereas Vendor identified in a separate assertion that their resolution needed to do with the “partisan policies of the Kennedy Center” and never with the Trump administration itself, the president’s loyalists aren’t very completely satisfied.

“Let’s be clear on the facts,” Richard Grenell, a Trump administration diplomat, mentioned in a put up through X. “Seller and Lin Manuel first went to the New York Times before they came to the Kennedy Center with their announcement that they can’t be in the same room with Republicans. This is a publicity stunt that will backfire.”

Grenell—who not too long ago campaigned on behalf of accused intercourse traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate—then argued that arts are for either side of the aisle and “not just for the people who Lin likes and agrees with.”

“The American people need to know that Lin-Manuel is intolerant of people who don’t agree with him politically. It’s clear he and Sellers don’t want Republicans going to their shows,” he added.

Grenell’s feedback come at an attention-grabbing time, provided that Miranda and Vendor pulled the present partly due to Trump’s sudden ousting of Democrats from the beforehand bipartisan board on the Kennedy Heart. 


President Donald Trump

“Our cancellation can be a enterprise resolution,” Seller wrote in a statement posted to Instagram. “‘Hamilton’ is a big and international manufacturing, and it will merely be financially and personally devastating to the a whole bunch of staff of ‘Hamilton’ if the brand new management of the Kennedy Heart immediately canceled or re-negotiated our engagement.”

He added, “The actions of the new Chairman of the Board in recent weeks demonstrate that contracts and previous agreements simply cannot be trusted.” 

It’s seemingly Vendor was referring to Trump’s firing of Deborah Rutter, the middle’s longtime president. Trump additionally fired a number of board members, changing them along with his personal supporters. 

“At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN,” Trump wrote through Fact Social in February. 

“Simply final yr, the Kennedy Heart featured Drag Reveals particularly focusing on our youth—THIS WILL STOP. The Kennedy Heart is an American Jewel, and should mirror the brightest STARS on its stage from all throughout our Nation,” Trump added, although he’s admitted to by no means having seen a Kennedy Heart present.

As Trump has introduced his loyalists, these on the opposite aspect of the aisle have made their exit. 

Singer-songwriter Ben Folds resigned from his position as creative advisor to the middle’s Nationwide Symphony Orchestra, as did TV legend Shonda Rhimes as a board member.

“Hamilton” has a historical past of butting heads with the Trump administration, with forged members personally pleading to former Vice President Mike Pence onstage in mid-November 2016 to do proper by the American folks.

“We, sir—we—are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights,” actor Brandon Victor Dixon, enjoying Vice President Aaron Burr, mentioned to Pence from the stage. “We truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us.”

Whereas “Hamilton” gained’t be gracing the stage and several other different performers have canceled in protest, many of the Kennedy Heart’s schedule seems to stay intact.

One different play, “The Story of a Rose,” nevertheless, relocated to Northern Virginia. The World Struggle-I themed live performance was mentioned to have been moved attributable to seating capability, per the New York Occasions.

Nonetheless, one performer later advised the outlet, “I’m glad at how it turned out. I wanted to do a show that everyone could attend—left, right, and center.”

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