Trump to attend 'Les Miserables' at revamped Kennedy Center, where sales have fallen

[Attilatheblond]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-attend-les-miserables-revamped-kennedy-center-where-sales-have-fallen-2025-06-11/]

One supposes he doesn't have a clue what it's about. One wonders if the "short fingered vulgarian" is trying to buff up his image. He always got shunned by the social circles in NYC that got all the cool glam reporting. The kid just couldn't get into the 'in' crowd.

Months after orchestrating a conservative takeover of the Kennedy Center's leadership, President Donald Trump will attend "Les Miserables" on Wednesday, his first show at the performing arts facility that has become a symbol of U.S. cultural and political divides.

Trump did not attend events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts during his first term but has taken a keen interest in it during his second. Deriding it on social media for putting on "Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth," he pushed out its former chairman, fired its longtime president and pledged to overhaul an institution he described as being in tremendous disrepair.

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The fallout has been swift. The musical "Hamilton" canceled plans to appear there, staff left and sales of subscriptions and individual tickets for Kennedy Center shows have dropped, according to two people briefed on the data.
Overall year-on-year subscription revenue was down 36% to $2.8 million as of early June for next season, which begins in the autumn, according to one source. Theater subscriptions, normally a major revenue driver for the center, were down 82%.

Gotta check my popcorn stash. Him fiddling and watching Les Mis while US society burns might be maddeningly amusing.

[Basso8vb]

1. What a fucking moron.

Someone should have a guillotine prop awaiting.

[FalloutShelter]

4. Got that right.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. I can see him now

He made the rest of the audience uncomfortable when he stood up and cheered during the rape scene.

[FalloutShelter]

3. Les Mis ?

He’s a really biggly history buff, I see.

[Ocelot II]

5. Interesting that he'd want to see a show about the French Revolution.

Do you hear the people sing, asshole?

[EYESORE 9001]

10. I hope the people sing right into his ears

Not that he’d make the association with himself.

[Aristus]

15. "Les Mis" isn't about the French Revolution.

It’s about the 1832 June Rebellion, forty years after the Revolution.

[Ocelot II]

16. I guess that's right - I read Les Miserables a thousand years ago,

remembered it as being about the original revolution. The point stands, though.

[MLAA]

6. I bet he doesn't last 20 minutes, unless of course he can sleep through it all.

Edited to add a 3rd possible outcome: His new body double (a must for all dictators and wannabes) is ready to make his debut.

[boonecreek]

7. He'll probably be rooting for Javert.

Assuming he can figure out what's going on.

[Demovictory9]

8. I cant imagine him enjoying music and the arts

[Tanuki]

9. The irony is lost on him. In real life, he would have been on the wrong

side of the barricades, ordering the shooting of Cosette's beloved.

[hatrack]

11. Well, that figures - nothing against Les Mis, but it debuted 45 freaking years ago . . . .

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So yeah, that would make it about the same vintage as "Cats", the only other tenuous connection I can make between the performing arts and The Duke Of Diapers.

[Attilatheblond]

12. "The Duke of Diapers"

That one is a keeper!

Thank you for much needed chuckle this bleak week. 'You're killing me, Smalls'

[hatrack]

13. Steal and use to your heart's content!

[Norbert]

14. He probably calls it Less Miserables

[Paladin]

17. "Les Miserables" ought to be the USA's new motto. (nt)

[bmichaelh]

18. Don Giovanni

I know one piece of music they will not be playing at Kennedy Center.

The Mozart opera Don Giovanni.

At the end of opera, Giovanni is given the opportunity to repent.

He refuses and is dragged down to Hell by demons.