{"id":93937,"date":"2025-06-15T17:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T00:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93937"},"modified":"2025-06-15T17:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T00:37:03","slug":"trumps-miserables-night-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/06\/15\/trumps-miserables-night-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Mis\u00e9rables Night Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of road shows, <strong><em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em><\/strong> just opened at <em>The Kennedy Center<\/em>.&nbsp; Interviewed on the red carpet opening night, <strong>Donald Trump <\/strong>expressed his love for the show \u2013 although he displayed a shocking lack of knowledge of the plot.&nbsp; When asked if he related more to Javert or Jean Valjean, he looked like someone asked him to multiply 3 times 9.&nbsp; \u201cOh, that\u2019s a tough one \u2013 the last part of that question.&nbsp; That\u2019s tough.&nbsp; I think you better answer that one, honey \u2013 I dunno.\u201d&nbsp; Yes, he just tossed <strong>Melania <\/strong>under the bus.&nbsp; Her response?&nbsp; She just gave that perplexed look and shrug, as if to say, \u201cMy English is not so good-looking!\u201d&nbsp; Plus, she had earlier stated her favorite show is <strong><em>Phantom of the Opera<\/em><\/strong> (<em>El Presidente<\/em> is more partial to <strong><em>Cats<\/em><\/strong>).&nbsp; Anyway, TACO and Melanie looked like <em>Rhodes Scholars <\/em>next to <strong>JD Vance<\/strong>, who posted the following: \u201cAbout to see <em>Les Mis\u00e9rables <\/em>with POTUS at the <em>Kennedy<\/em> <em>Center<\/em>.&nbsp; Me to <strong>Usha<\/strong>: so what\u2019s this about?&nbsp; A barber who kills people?&nbsp; Usha: (hysterical laugher)\u201d.&nbsp; Oh, that wacky <em>Second Family<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Both the Trumps and the Vances were upstaged by four other people in the audience \u2013 drag queens!&nbsp; And the gals had prime orchestra seats (dare I say better than the president).&nbsp; Those seats were provided by <em>Qommittee <\/em>\u2013 which is a nonprofit network of drag queens fighting hate and censorship.&nbsp; Here\u2019s a fun fact \u2013 the seats were donated by season ticket holders who wanted the drag queens there when Trump and Vance were in attendance.&nbsp; The queens in question were <strong>Tara Hoot<\/strong>, <strong>Mari Con Carne<\/strong>, <strong>Ricky Ros\u00e9<\/strong>, and <strong>Vangenesis <\/strong>\u2013 who quipped when <em>El Presidente <\/em>arrived, \u201cHe\u2019s wearing more makeup than me!\u201d&nbsp; They did have some concern about going in, but added, \u201cI think we brightened the audience as much as we possibly could.&nbsp; We had so many kind words and people come up to us tonight.&nbsp; It was just so delightful.\u201d&nbsp; Happy Pride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of road shows, Les Mis\u00e9rables just opened at The Kennedy Center.&nbsp; Interviewed on the red carpet opening night, Donald Trump expressed his love for the show \u2013 although he displayed a shocking lack of knowledge of the plot.&nbsp; When asked if he related more to Javert or Jean Valjean, he looked like someone asked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93938,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93937\/revisions\/93938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}