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Already, folks, got a lot coming up on today's show. We'll get into the cultural impact of the Met Gala. New Yorker magazine features some of your favorite Democrats in their living rooms. Plus, President Trump's war on Harvard University continues. First, our friend and colleague Andrew Klavan has a brand new book out. It is a must read.
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Get your copy today at store.dailywire.com. We begin today with the Met Gala. So I know you don't think the Met Gala is all that important. I don't either. But it is very important to the cultural glitterati, the people who make culture. So the theme of this year's Met Gala is superfine, tailoring black style.
And clearly, when this thing was originally thought about, people thought Kamala Harris was going to be president of the United States. That is the reason why they did it this way. Last October is when they announced this. And it was designed as a celebration party for the nation's second black president, Kamala Harris. And then she lost.
And so now we are in this weird nether region in which the left continues to whine that Kamala Harris should have won the election, even though she lost pretty clearly and evidently. And the rest of the world wonders why people are dressed up in bizarre outfits paying homage to something or other. According to The New York Times,
Last October, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute announced its next fashion show, Superfine, tailoring black style, the political landscape looked very different. Kamala Harris, the first female vice president and first black woman ever to top a major party ticket, was in the final weeks of her campaign for the White House.
The show, the culmination of five years of work by Andrew Bolton, the Costume Institute's curator in charge, to diversify the department's holdings and shows in the wake of the racial reckoning. brought about by George Floyd's murder seemed long overdue. Yes, there was nothing that was longer overdue than a fashion show about black fashion. Super, super overdue. That is why George Floyd died.
That was for the Met Gala to have extraordinarily rich and famous people wear bizarre outfits worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Clearly, that is what was necessary.
However, according to the New York Times, on Monday, when the Met Gala opened, the starry gas at its signature gala, the splashiest party of the year, it did so in a very different world, one in which the federal government has functionally declared war on diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as programming related to race, especially in cultural institutions.
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