What happens when you get into a pissing contest with artists (re: demanding Hamilton apology)
From playwright Jeff Sweet:
"Re: Trump wanting an apology from HAMILTON to Pence. Not that it matters to him, but it's a losing game to get into a pissing contest with artists cuz artists pretty much have the last word. Trump was buddies with the late and very reprehensible Roy Cohn. What is Roy Cohn's image now? Pretty much what Tony Kushner wrote in ANGELS IN AMERICA. Margaret Thatcher took on the British theatre. Look at the portraits of her in THE AUDIENCE and HANDBAGGED. The night she died, the audience cheered and applauded the song about looking forward to her death in BILLY ELLIOT. Indeed, the night she died the song, 'Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead' sailed to the top of the charts. Richard III, according to historians, was a good and compassionate king; Shakespeare had the last word. Henry V was a genocidal maniac; Shakespeare had the last word. Mr. Trump, guess who's going to have the last word? And, unlike Richard and Henry, you will have earned it. Go ahead, attack the arts and the artists. Then imagine what happens when you hit a wasp nest with a stick."
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