Trump Won't Hear the People Sing
The Confrontation
A news headline caught my attention while I was searching for a video of Les Misérables' One Day More. Cast from the show are refusing to play a Kennedy Center gig Trump is scheduled to attend in June.
At the End of the Day
Trump replaced the entire Kennedy Center board with his appointees. They recently installed a new president, Richard Grenell, who says:
Any performer who isn’t professional enough to perform for patrons of all backgrounds, regardless of political affiliation, won’t be welcomed.
I know it's an overused analogy at this point, but that's what a Nazi would say about performers boycotting Hitler.
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Endnotes
Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary - One Day More (Encore by the original cast). I'm not crying, you're crying
And, you bet your ass I used song titles for each heading. They couldn't have fit better.