Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda Turn Donald Trump Tweets Into a Musical

By: Sep. 20, 2016
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In a video shared on GQ the Magazine, Lin-Manuel Miranda sings actual Donald Trump tweets on the top of a New York City sightseeing bus! The lyrics include "Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!"

The Tony Award winner is featured on the cover of GQ's October issue, in which he speaks about leaving the hit hip-hop musical HAMILTON and looking ahead to his upcoming exciting projects. "There are people who have a hit that connects with great success, and then they chase that success for the rest of their lives, and that's their doom," explains Miranda in the feature article. "You think of artists who had that big thing, and then they go back to that well again and again with diminishing returns, but the world has moved on. And then there are the artists who really stay true to themselves. Doing what inspires them."

Check out a first look at Miranda on the cover of GQ's October issue below:

Miranda recently composed music for Disney's upcoming MOANA, and will star in Disney's remake of MARY POPPINS opposite Emily Blunt. In addition to creating Broadway's Tony Award winning musical HAMILTON, Miranda's other Broadway credits include Composer/Lyricist/Usnavi of In the Heights (four Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Score, Grammy Award, Pulitzer Prize finalist), Bring It On: The Musical (co-composer/co-lyricist, Tony nomination for Best Musical), West Side Story (2009 revival, Spanish translations).

Off-Broadway credits include Hamilton (ten Lortel Awards, three Outer Critic Circle Awards, eight Drama Desk Awards, the 2015 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Musical and the2015 Obie Award for Best New American Play); Merrily We Roll Along and tick, tick...BOOM! (both City Center Encores!). With Tom Kitt, Lin-Manuel received an Emmy Award for "Bigger" from "The 67th Annual Tony Awards."

TV/film: "Freestyle Love Supreme," "How I Met Your Mother," "Smash," "Do No Harm," "Modern Family," "House," "The Electric Company," "Sesame Street," "The Sopranos," The Odd Life of Timothy Green and 200 Cartas.


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