Celebrities React to President Elect Donald Trump's Demand for 'Hamilton' Apology

Celebs React to Donald Trump's Demand for 'Hamilton' Apology Tons of celebs are speaking out to slam Donald Trump for demanding that the cast of Hamilton apologize to Mike Pence for delivering a message to him after a performance.

The VP-elect was in attendance at the smash hit Broadway musical on Friday night (November 18) and the cast took the opportunity to ask Pence to “work on behalf of all of us.”

Brandon Victor Dixon, who plays the role of Aaron Burr, delivered a very respectful message and even asked the audience to stop booing. He said they welcomed Pence to attend the show.

Read what celebs like Paul Wesley, Emmy Rossum, Don Cheadle, Chrissy Teigen, and many more are saying…

Follow Paul Wesley ✔ @paulwesley This is a tweet from the president elect who is upset by a moving speech made at the theater. He is attempting to silence free speech. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/799974635274194947 … 8:32 AM - 19 Nov 2016 5,700 5,700 Retweets 11,729 11,729 likes Follow Don Cheadle ✔ @DonCheadle Oh, THAT'S what they mean when they keep saying "safe space"!!! https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/799974635274194947 … 9:44 AM - 19 Nov 2016 53 53 Retweets 202 202 likes Follow Emmy Rossum ✔ @emmyrossum How ya gonna boycott Hamilton when it's SOLD OUT!!!! 😃 10:05 AM - 19 Nov 2016 1,518 1,518 Retweets 4,722 4,722 likes Click inside to read what lots more celebs are tweeting…

Wow @realdonaldtrump is right. I can't believe they would subject poor, innocent Mike Pence to such abhorrent, evil hate speech. https://t.co/AdaXM1ZSHY

@realDonaldTrump you are lying about something we can ALL see. you are such a lying, sniveling, whining sorry excuse for a human being.

@realDonaldTrump lying about something that cannot be proved is bad enough but you seem to think everyone but you is deaf, dumb and blind.

Follow Jamie Chung ✔ @jamiechung1 Trump is asking for an apology from the cast of Hamilton. Does EVERYTHING go over your head? Did you not hear what they had to say? 9:53 AM - 19 Nov 2016 260 260 Retweets 642 642 likes Follow Jamie Chung ✔ @jamiechung1 Of course not. 9:53 AM - 19 Nov 2016 14 14 Retweets 62 62 likes Follow Jamie Chung ✔ @jamiechung1 I'd like you to apologize first please @realDonaldTrump 9:55 AM - 19 Nov 2016 46 46 Retweets 214 214 likes Follow Jamie Chung ✔ @jamiechung1 @realDonaldTrump please stop bullying people who are simply voicing their concerns. They were not harassing. Please hear US 10:14 AM - 19 Nov 2016 9 9 Retweets 25 25 likes Follow Maggie Gyllenhaal ✔ @mgyllenhaal History has it's eyes on US https://twitter.com/billyeichner/status/799830002497818624 … 9:58 AM - 19 Nov 2016 27 27 Retweets 156 156 likes Follow billy eichner ✔ @billyeichner Harassed with cameras blazing is not what happened at Hamilton, that's a show I like to call Billy on the Street. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/799972624713420804 … 8:28 AM - 19 Nov 2016 779 779 Retweets 5,352 5,352 likes Follow Seth MacFarlane ✔ @SethMacFarlane I can't be silent on this. I watched the video. The cast was respectful and honest. Quit whining, grow a spine, and suck it up, kid. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/799972624713420804 … 9:01 AM - 19 Nov 2016 11,883 11,883 Retweets 26,593 26,593 likes Follow Seth MacFarlane ✔ @SethMacFarlane Dude, you would HATE Rocky Horror. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/799974635274194947 … 9:02 AM - 19 Nov 2016 3,304 3,304 Retweets 10,569 10,569 likes Follow Seth MacFarlane ✔ @SethMacFarlane I know, right?? The theater, the theater, what's happened to the theater? Especially where dancing is concerned. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/799974635274194947 … 9:49 AM - 19 Nov 2016 716 716 Retweets 4,080 4,080 likes So instead a play about political agency, send your boy to Cats next time. https://t.co/FaoLZzFZhq

Follow Sara Foster ✔ @saramfoster Wow,it's already starting..Donald trump demanding an apology from the Hamilton cast.Does he realize that the POTUS CAN NOT do that??? 9:50 AM - 19 Nov 2016 6 6 Retweets 42 42 likes Follow Rosie ✔ @Rosie APOLOGIZE - THATS RICH - COMING FROM YOU - @realDonaldTrump 9:11 AM - 19 Nov 2016 418 418 Retweets 2,725 2,725 likes Follow Amanda Seyfried ✔ @AmandaSeyfried Privileged white folks asking people to stop throwing tantrums about Trump is sad and ironic and really gets me down. 9:13 AM - 19 Nov 2016 250 250 Retweets 991 991 likes Follow Ben Platt ✔ @BenSPLATT You don't know the first thing about what Theatre is or means. The actions of @HamiltonMusical have left our community BEAMING WITH PRIDE!! https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/799974635274194947 … 10:18 AM - 19 Nov 2016 · Manhattan, NY 575 575 Retweets 1,781 1,781 likes Follow Ingrid Michaelson ✔ @ingridmusic Poor Pence. Were his feelings hurt? Y don't you defend the 100's of people who have been involved in ACTUAL hate crimes. Please speak up! https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/799972624713420804 … 10:15 AM - 19 Nov 2016 169 169 Retweets 624 624 likes He was not harassed. He was spoken to. With grace and thoughtfulness about topics that affect people. It was a hand across the aisle. https://t.co/9CLYSr92Mt

Follow Chris Lowell ✔ @mrchrislowell No no, Donald. @HamiltonMusical has minorities and immigrants in its cast for every performance. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/799974635274194947 … 10:33 AM - 19 Nov 2016 16 16 Retweets 114 114 likes Follow Jon Cryer ✔ @MrJonCryer So wait, the people who voted for the guy who threatened to jail his opponent during a debate are now screaming for politeness and decorum? 10:34 AM - 19 Nov 2016 172 172 Retweets 519 519 likes Follow Ron Howard ✔ @RealRonHoward have you read the very respectful words the cast directed toward Mr. Pence? Is that harassment or freedom of speech? https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/799974635274194947 … 7:59 AM - 19 Nov 2016 1,661 1,661 Retweets 3,901 3,901 likes Follow Willie Garson ✔ @WillieGarson Harassed? By expressing the hope that the government speak for ALL of us? You actually just tweeted that? WOW. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/799972624713420804 … 8:17 AM - 19 Nov 2016 107 107 Retweets 259 259 likes Follow Laura Benanti ✔ @LauraBenanti Since we're demanding apologies.Ahem.FRAUD, INVITING RUSSIA INTO OUR ELECTION, BRAGGING ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT, APPOINTING A WHITE NATIONALIST https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/799974635274194947 … 8:31 AM - 19 Nov 2016 1,398 1,398 Retweets 3,116 3,116 likes Follow Laura Benanti ✔ @LauraBenanti We've entered an alternate universe where heartfelt messages of inclusion are "harassment" but grabbing women by the p*ssy is "boytalk". https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/799984193497350144 … 8:40 AM - 19 Nov 2016 6,951 6,951 Retweets 10,946 10,946 likes Follow Laura Benanti ✔ @LauraBenanti Also, while you're fired up. Maybe you could take the time to denounce the 400+ actual HATE CRIMES that have been perpetrated in your name? https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/799972624713420804 … 8:47 AM - 19 Nov 2016 2,033 2,033 Retweets 4,068 4,068 likes Follow Matt Doyle ✔ @MattfDoyle Proud of @BrandonVDixon and the incredible company of @HamiltonMusical. Disturbed & disgusted that @realDonaldTrump is demanding an apology. 8:36 AM - 19 Nov 2016 61 61 Retweets 245 245 likes Follow Cynthia Erivo ✔ @CynthiaEriVo Oh!!!! You want the theatre full of people you have alienated be protective of you? Ooh I understand!! THE EARTH SHOULD BE A SAFE SPACE!!😳 https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/799974635274194947 … 8:21 AM - 19 Nov 2016 780 780 Retweets 1,898 1,898 likes Follow Erich Bergen ✔ @erichbergen No, the cast read a statement from the stage asking Pence to make sure they fight for their rights. Harassment is...well, you know. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/799972624713420804 … 8:12 AM - 19 Nov 2016 161 161 Retweets 360 360 likes Follow Colin Donnell ✔ @colindonnell It's ok Donald it's just "Theatre Talk". Sorta like "locker room talk" except in that it was completely thought out & respectful. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/799974635274194947 … 9:32 AM - 19 Nov 2016 4,395 4,395 Retweets 7,351 7,351 likes Follow Todrick Hall ✔ @todrick It's hilarious to me that people are trying to #BoycottHamilton boycott, girlcott, transcott, whatever, SHE'S ALREADY SOLD OUT HUNTY! 9:45 AM - 19 Nov 2016 1,918 1,918 Retweets 4,691 4,691 likes Follow zoe kazan ✔ @zoeinthecities Attn @realDonaldTrump: we will teach our children about the evil you are perpetrating. And as we say in the theater...children will listen. 9:59 AM - 19 Nov 2016 50 50 Retweets 242 242 likes

This whole thing is stupid and just needs to go away.

2 posted on 11/19/2016 5:44:22 PM PST by sam_whiskey (Peace through Strength)

There is one good way to deal with these “artists”: end their federal funding.

LOL!
Trump just wanted to remind people why they voted for him.

4 posted on 11/19/2016 5:45:22 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)

Death to lib ho-wood and gay broadway!

5 posted on 11/19/2016 5:45:51 PM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of my heart, and You love me the same...)

Poor John Legend.

6 posted on 11/19/2016 5:46:30 PM PST by Hildy ("The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." Orwell)

The celebrities are infected with TDS and are politically flatlining themselves.

One of these said it was a “hand across the aisle”. That’s the last thing I want anything to do with.

The theater should be closed and the actor who felt the need to lecture the VP-elect severely punished. This kind of thing can no longer be tolerated. Any of us who made conservative political commentary in our jobs were summarily fired by liberals. No tolerance. None.

9 posted on 11/19/2016 5:47:51 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)

maybe he has earplugs lol

There is a tax break for live theater that has to be renewed this year by Congress. This could not have come at a better time!!

11 posted on 11/19/2016 5:49:42 PM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)

I’ll believe in the Fairness Doctrine when they apply it to Broadway.

12 posted on 11/19/2016 5:49:57 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)

They will say what they will say. We will actually do stuff! Enjoy the new wall, Hamilton

13 posted on 11/19/2016 5:50:15 PM PST by ari-freedom (The Social Justice War is over and we won!)

I think he has the finest voice of my generation.... and then.. he got married to a “B” level model who thinks she is all that. Very sad.

14 posted on 11/19/2016 5:50:33 PM PST by Hildy ("The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." Orwell)

So what, exactly, did trump say?

15 posted on 11/19/2016 5:50:40 PM PST by bankwalker (Does a fish know that it's wet?)

We’d never have heard of John Legend if he hadn’t married a skinny naked woman. Does he have a song? Or like, what?

16 posted on 11/19/2016 5:52:09 PM PST by Tax-chick (Proud to be on the enemies list.)

17 posted on 11/19/2016 5:52:10 PM PST by KC_Lion (Trump's Iowa Class Battleships have come within striking distance of Hillary shores and opened fire.)

Poor Opie can’t grasp that saying, “I hope you will work for us all...”, is a statement that he doesn’t think you’re going to.

Every last one of these half-wit pompous people are challenged.

18 posted on 11/19/2016 5:53:07 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")

Don’t know who most of these “celebrities” are. But the left has become completely unhinged.

He is a very well known and brilliant singer/songwriter/pianist.

20 posted on 11/19/2016 5:53:29 PM PST by Hildy ("The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." Orwell)

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