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# Trump: Watching ‘Les Mis’ while crushing the protests
- URL: https://www.europeans.today/2025/06/12/trump-watching-les-mis-while-crushing-the-protests/
- Published: 2025-06-12T00:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T23:59:14.000Z
- Description: Donald Trump attends Les Misérables after a crackdown on protests, highlighting the irony of his watching a musical about defying tyranny while real-life dissent encounters repression on US streets. | Today’s Political Cartoon.
- Author: TODAY's Cartoons
- Tags: Today's Cartoon, TODAY+

Donald Trump, fresh from ordering a crackdown on protests, attended Les Misérables on Wednesday night with his wife, a show about resisting authoritarianism.

His clueless enthusiasm exposes the absurd disconnect between the musical’s revolutionary message and his anti-democratic agenda.

As citizens rise in song on stage, real-world dissent is met with force outside, in Los Angeles and other cities across the United States.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/40/1540bec0-7154-4feb-b8e1-97f579155b08/content/images/2025/06/0000310-min.jpg)

The irony of Trump watching a musical about defying tyranny while real-life dissent encounters repression on US streets.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/40/1540bec0-7154-4feb-b8e1-97f579155b08/content/images/2021/09/end-flat-1.png) 

### **GOING FURTHER**

- ###### [Shocker: Donald Trump and JD Vance Totally Miss the Point of Les Misérables](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/shocker-donald-trump-jd-vance-les-miserables-kennedy-center?ref=europeans.today) | VANITY FAIR
- ###### [Trump gets mixed reception while watching Les Miserables](https://news.sky.com/video/trump-gets-mixed-reception-while-watching-les-miserables-13382663?ref=europeans.today) | SKY NEWS
- ###### [Trump attends 'Les Misérables' at the Kennedy Center, drawing boos and cheers](https://www.npr.org/2025/06/11/nx-s1-5429801/trump-les-miserables-kennedy-center?ref=europeans.today) | NPR
- ###### [Trump met with cheers, boos at Kennedy Center for 'Les Miserables' performance](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-attend-les-miserables-revamped-kennedy-center-where-sales-have-fallen-2025-06-11/?ref=europeans.today) | REUTERS

  
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##### ▪ This piece was first published in Europeans TODAY.   

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