Trump Met with Mixed Reception at Kennedy Center’s Showing of ‘Les Misérables’

Photo: A view of the Kennedy Center from Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge – December 28, 2013. Photo credit: Anita Mishra via Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 3.0. Article by Francesca Aton. ARTnews – June 12, 2025.

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. The president arrived with wife and first lady Melania to support the art center and watch the critically acclaimed musical Les Misérables, adapted from the 1862 French epic novel by Victor Hugo, which criticizes society’s 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. […]

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