In the United States, Donald Trump Hue during a representation of the « miserable » to which he attended-Liberation
A president who sends the army in the face of demonstrators Assistant to a musical celebrating a popular uprising against a despot. This is the abyss without perspective that Donald Trump offered Wednesday June 11 by attending Washington to a performance of the musical the miserable. A long -standing cultural outing, but which has a particular relief in view of the news, and which ended in a battle in the public between hoots and applause.
Adapted from Victor Hugo’s novel, the show, a Broadway classic, takes spectators on Parisian barricades during the short Insurrection of June 1832 Against the monarchy, repressed in the blood by the army and the National Guard. A situation that echoes that of Los Angeles, plagued by clashes between Protesters opposed to Donald Trump’s migration policy And the thousands of soldiers that the President of the United States has deployed.
Several actors had also decided to boycott the show due to the presence of Donald Trump in the audience. « I don’t care. Frankly. All I do is manage the country wellreplied Donald Trump interviewed by journalists on this subject. (…) If I hadn’t been there (…) Los Angeles would have left smoke. «
The most famous song in the musical, created in France in 1980 and then became a global phenomenon after its adaptation to Broadway, is a call for popular uprising, which is called in English Do you hear the people? (The will of the people in VF). Donald Trump had played it before announcing, on November 15, 2022, that he presented himself again in the presidential election. « I like songs, I like the room »recently said the Republican President, openly accused on Tuesday of authoritarian drift by the Governor of California Gavin Newsom.
In his most virulent speech to this day on these overflows, Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was going « release » the Californian megalopolis of those he calls « Insurgents » and « Foreign enemies ». Newsom, opposed to this deployment of the army, responded Tuesday with a very dark speech, speaking of a « President who does not want to be held by any law or constitution, leading to a generalized assault against American values ».
The evening at Kennedy Center, planned before these clashes, illustrates the will of the Republican to assert his grip on the world of culture and spectacle. The president recently took the reins of this prestigious performance hall of the capital, where he installed a direction made of faithful, responsible for printing a resolutely antiprogressist turning point in programming.
Wednesday’s show was not an ordinary representation: the musical was given as part of a fundraising evening, intended to garnish the funds of the institution. According to the Washington Postit cost two million dollars to participate in a reception and take a photo with Donald Trump, in addition to attending the show in a lodge.
Engaged in an ultra-conservative crusade against what he calls the « Anti-American propaganda » In art but also in research and history, the president has also regained control of several major Washington museums. He also returned the leaders of two prestigious institutions, the National Portrait Gallery and the Congress bookstore.
