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Tonight: trump booed at Les Misérables Opening Night at Washington’s Kennedy Center

Trump’s Kennedy Center Debut: Les Mis and Six-Figure Checks
Ashley Parker
Tue, May 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM GMT+1
6 min read
President Donald Trump’s promised cultural renaissance will begin with misery—specifically, Les Misérables.
Trump plans to attend a performance of the musical at the Kennedy Center next month and host a private fundraising reception beforehand, marking the first performance he will attend at the center as president and his first effort to raise funds for the institution he now runs, two people familiar with the fundraiser told us.
In his first term, Trump rejected Washington, D.C.’s most celebrated cultural institution, after artists protested his administration and threatened to boycott Kennedy Center–related events at the White House