If you needed further proof that the Democrat Party is still fuming over not having a presence "in the room where it happens"—also known as Donald Trump's DC—look no further than the lame stunt they just pulled at the Kennedy Center. Still irate that President Trump has taken control of the federal performing arts center and emphasized culturally-rich and family-friendly programming, a group of embittered Democrat senators and Broadway performers conspired to hold a subversive Gay Pride Month event on the grounds of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The event, entitled "Love is Love," took place Monday evening in the Justice Forum, a small theater located in an extension off the main building, after Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) reserved the venue weeks earlier under false pretenses. According to Ric Grenell, Trump's Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions of United States and current president of the Kennedy Center, Hickenlooper's office rented the facility for what they called a "talent show." They, instead, secretly collaborated with Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller, who has been openly critical of President Trump, to stage a show intended to glorify gay culture.
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Other players involved in the silly charade included Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin.
Grenell had some thoughts on stunt, saying in a statement released by the Kennedy Center, "We were only later notified by the New York Times that Senator Hickenlooper's event was instead an invite-only political stunt where, once again, the Kennedy Center was being used by political operatives to larp [live action role play] as victims of intolerance in order to get a story in the TImes."
Statement from Ambassador Richard Grenell, President of the Kennedy Center:
— The Kennedy Center (@kencen) June 23, 2025
I'm disappointed to learn that Hamilton Producer @jseller and Hamilton Creator @Lin_Manuel are working with Democratic Senators and the New York Times to boycott the Kennedy Center, refusing to perform…
Hickenlooper is supremely proud of what he calls his "goofy idea," and Seller, the Hamilton producer, was incredibly tone-deaf when taking a self-congratulatory victory lap, telling a Colorado news outlet:
“Today, we are taking back a little bit of that, because that building belongs to all of us, and tonight, that building enables us to celebrate one of the greatest, fastest civil rights movements in the history of America, the gay civil rights movement, and we are going to do it through music, humor, inspiration and pride,” Seller said.
It's that "take back" part that is very telling. The left assumed it was they who "owned the building," and were stunned to learn from Donald Trump that they didn't. Seller, along with Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, made a big stink earlier this year about not bringing the touring version of the Broadway hit to the Kennedy Center, as planned, in 2026, as a way of protesting Trump. Nothing says inclusivity quite like excluding fans from seeing a show.
In the end, Grenell was correct in calling the whole thing a "political stunt." It did nothing to help gay people or make the performing arts more accessible to the American public, and it certainly won't deter the Trump administration from its mission to restore the Kennedy Center to its past glory.
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