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Boos, cheers and a heavy dose of irony as Trump takes in Les Mis against backdrop of LA protests

by David Smith In Washington

The tuxedo-clad US president promised a 'golden era' for the US at his first Kennedy Center production in Washington "Do you hear the people sing? / Singing the song of angry men? / It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!" When the rousing anthem of revolution filled the Kennedy Center on Wednesday night, Donald Trump may have had a Pavlovian response along the lines of "Get me Stephen Miller" or "S…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:48am on June 12, 2025