Donald Trump keeps his Hamilton Twitter feud going
President-elect Donald Trump was up and tweeting early Sunday morning with a fresh attack on the Broadway musical Hamilton, whose audience booed and cast admonished Vice President-elect Mike Pence when he attended a performance Friday night. Trump reiterated his demand for a cast apology in Sunday's post, his third straight tweet on the subject.
The Hamilton incident has rapidly become a subject of debate on social media more broadly, with Trump supporters advocating a boycott of the play, a threat that would be more meaningful were it actually possible to get tickets to the perpetually sold-out and notoriously expensive show.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.