Mike Pence squashed President-Elect Trump’s outrage at the cast of Hamilton by telling Fox News Sunday that he wasn’t offended by the cast’s post-performance comments to him.
“The irony of the #BoycottHamilton movement is that it’s mostly folks who already boycott both hip-hop and knowledge of history.”
Journalists are expressing concern that President-elect Donald Trump’s tweets attacking the cast of Hamilton are a signal of how the next president intends to suppress free speech.
Donald Trump used his power as President-elect to attack the cast of Hamilton and place a chilling effect on free speech by falsely claiming that the stars of the musical were rude to Vice President-elect Mike Pence.