Metropolitan Opera’s Peter Gelb blames Trump for sales slump — but needs to look in the mirror

Blaming the president is a popular pastime these days, but one of America’s cultural leaders has come up with something really novel in the genre. “Metropolitan Opera season attendance dropped slightly following the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown that coincided with a decrease in tourists to New York.” Who knew rounding up hardened illegal-immigrant criminals would…

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