Democratic senators host Pride concert at Kennedy Center to protest Trump takeover

Five Democratic senators joined forces with a "Hamilton" shaper to signifier a cheery pridefulness performance connected Monday nighttime successful protestation of President Donald Trump’s takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts successful Washington, D.C.

The New York Times reported that Sen. John Hickenlooper of Colorado on with Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen, Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren rented the Justice Forum, a lecture hallway wrong the Kennedy Center, for a 90-minute performance expected to diagnostic "gay characters, cheery culture, cheery euphony and cheery pride."

"What’s happening successful the satellite is profoundly concerning, but adjacent successful our darkest hours, we indispensable proceed to question retired the light," Hickenlooper said successful a statement. "The L.G.B.T.Q. assemblage has agelong embodied this resilience, maintaining joyousness and creativity successful the look of adversity."

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Democratic senators rented a hallway wrong the Kennedy Center for a protestation concert (AP)

The performance volition beryllium produced by Jeffrey Seller, the pb shaper of "Hamilton" who described however helium was asked to instrumentality portion successful "guerrilla theater" to the New York Times.

"This is our mode of reoccupying the Kennedy Center," Seller said. "This is simply a signifier of saying, ‘We are here, we exist, and you can’t disregard us.’ This is simply a protest, and a governmental act."

Seller and "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda antecedently canceled a planned production of the fashionable rap philharmonic astatine the Kennedy Center for 2026 successful protestation of the Trump administration.

The performance volition diagnostic respective Broadway artists arsenic good arsenic the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, whose May show at the Kennedy Center was canceled. Fox News Digital was told, however, that the determination came earlier the center’s enactment alteration owed to deficiency of summons income alternatively than politics.

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Trump was elected president of the Kennedy Center successful February. (Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Kennedy Center and the 5 Democratic senators’ offices for comment.

In February, Trump fired respective Kennedy Center committee members, including the president and chairman, and replaced them with pro-Trump figures, who past named the president arsenic chairman. Trump aboriginal appointed Richard Grenell, who was the archetypal openly cheery Cabinet subordinate aft serving the archetypal Trump administration, arsenic president and interim enforcement director.

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