{"id":709,"date":"2025-06-23T00:51:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T00:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/?p=709"},"modified":"2025-06-23T00:51:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T00:51:43","slug":"drama-erupts-as-donald-trump-attends-les-miserables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Drama erupts as Donald Trump attends \u2018Les Mis\u00e9rables\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"http:\/\/international11.store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/502619946_720311623827195_4297817729859830525_n-59.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-hitmag-featured size-hitmag-featured wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/international11.store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/502619946_720311623827195_4297817729859830525_n-59-735x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>On June 11, just days before his 79th birthday, Donald Trump and Melania attended\u00a0<em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>\u00a0at the Kennedy Center, marking his first visit since controversially firing much of its leadership and criticizing its \u201cwoke\u201d programming.<\/p>\n<p>Some cast members boycotted the show in protest, and some ticket holders donated seats to drag performers to highlight a drag ban at the venue.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14887\" src=\"https:\/\/currentnews-foryou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-259.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currentnews-foryou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-259.png 340w, https:\/\/currentnews-foryou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-259-235x300.png 235w\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"434\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>During the performance, Trump faced mixed reactions\u2014boos, cheers, and chants. A woman shouted accusations calling him a \u201cconvicted felon\u201d and \u201crapist,\u201d and others yelled profanities. Trump responded by pumping his fist in the air, echoing a previous defiant gesture.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14886\" src=\"https:\/\/currentnews-foryou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-258.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currentnews-foryou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-258.png 342w, https:\/\/currentnews-foryou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-258-271x300.png 271w\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"378\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Many found the irony of Trump watching a musical about uprising against tyranny while sending troops to control protests striking. Social media was full of reactions criticizing and mocking his appearance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 11, just days before his 79th birthday, Donald Trump and Melania attended\u00a0Les Mis\u00e9rables\u00a0at the Kennedy Center, marking his first visit since controversially firing much of its leadership and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}