The Daily Beast reports:
Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center chief fumed at the brains behind Hamilton over an event staged Monday at the iconic arts institution, highlighting tensions between “woke” performers and new MAGA leadership.
Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell, a Trump loyalist, unleashed a lengthy rant against Hamilton’s creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and lead producer Jeffrey Seller, who produced a Pride Month concert in collaboration with five Democratic senators.
Though there were no indications that Miranda was present at or involved in the event, Grenell accused the Hamilton duo of being in cahoots with Sens. John Hickenlooper, Elizabeth Warren, Brian Schatz, Jacky Rosen, and Tammy Baldwin, who hosted the invite-only event to protest Trump’s overhaul of the storied Washington, D.C., cultural center.
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