{"id":174106,"date":"2025-06-12T02:36:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T02:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/donald-trump-wife-melania-booed-at-les-miserables-opening-night-at-kennedy-center\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T02:36:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T02:36:55","slug":"donald-trump-wife-melania-booed-at-les-miserables-opening-night-at-kennedy-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/donald-trump-wife-melania-booed-at-les-miserables-opening-night-at-kennedy-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump &#038; Wife Melania Booed at \u2018Les Mis\u00e9rables\u2019 Opening Night at Kennedy Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" title=\"Donald Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Donald<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/melania-trump\/\" title=\"Melania Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Melania Trump<\/strong><\/a> did not receive the warmest welcome as they arrived at their first show at the Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n<p>The 78-year-old President and the 55-year-old First Lady made a rare public appearance together at the opening night <strong><em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em><\/strong> held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>The night marked the first event the couple has attended at the Kennedy Center after <strong>Trump<\/strong>, just a few days into his second presidential term, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/02\/13\/shonda-rhimes-other-celebs-down-from-kennedy-center-board-amid-donald-trump-becoming-new-chair\/https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/02\/13\/shonda-rhimes-other-celebs-down-from-kennedy-center-board-amid-donald-trump-becoming-new-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">named himself as chairman of the Kennedy Center<\/a> and got rid of most of what he called \u201cwoke\u201d leadership, installing a new board of conservative supporters in their place. <\/p>\n<p>As he and <strong>Melania<\/strong> arrived at the event, they were met with a mix of applause and boos, as seen in a video shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v2yG2bU-J1M\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v2yG2bU-J1M&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2117755\"><\/span>Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jd-vance\/\" title=\"Jd Vance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>J.D. Vance<\/strong><\/a> and his wife, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/usha-vance\/\" title=\"Usha Vance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Usha<\/strong><\/a>, were also in attendance at the performance. They were previously booed by an audience at the Kennedy Center back in March as they tried sitting in the Kennedy Center balcony to watch the National Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of opening night of <em>Les Mis<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/05\/07\/politics\/kennedy-center-les-mis-cast-boycott-trump\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/05\/07\/politics\/kennedy-center-les-mis-cast-boycott-trump&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> reported a few weeks ago that at least 10 of the 12 actors in the musical were not planning on the night that <strong>Trump<\/strong> attended. The cast was reportedly given the option to not perform, and many opted out.<\/p>\n<p>While walking the red carpet, <strong>Trump<\/strong> was asked about those actors boycotting him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t care less,\u201d <strong>Trump<\/strong> told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MichaelSCollura\/status\/1932985514875064606\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/x.com\/MichaelSCollura\/status\/1932985514875064606&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>. \u201cHonestly, I couldn\u2019t. All I do is run the country well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back in February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/02\/13\/issa-rae-cancels-sold-out-kennedy-center-show-after-donald-trump-takes-over-as-chair-of-the-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this star canceled her sold-out show at the Kennedy Center<\/a> after <strong>Trump<\/strong> took over.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/06\/11\/donald-trump-wife-melania-booed-at-les-miserables-opening-night-at-kennedy-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald and Melania Trump did not receive the warmest welcome as they arrived at their first show at the Kennedy Center. The 78-year-old President and the 55-year-old First Lady made a rare public appearance together at the opening night Les Mis\u00e9rables held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The night marked the first event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-174106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}