President Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center is already paying massive cultural dividends.

Producers of the Broadway musical “Hamilton” are canceling plans to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington next year, pointing to President Trump’s “takeover” of the Washington, D.C., institution… the third iteration of “Hamilton” at the Kennedy Center, scheduled for March 3-April 26, was canceled.

The third iteration. Need I say more?

This novelty act has been running for ten years when it should have had a three-week off-Broadway run followed by being forgotten by everyone involved. The notion that Hamilton was brilliant was thoroughly disproven not only by objective good taste and standards, but by Lin Manuel-Miranda’s subsequent career.

Hamilton was the last gasp of Obama’s cultural moment that stuck around because the theater world these days consists of turning every Hollywood property into a stage production. Everything from Sunset Boulevard to Back to the Future is now a musical. Revivals of classic musicals are so horrendously woke no one can stand them. And original theater usually consists of stuff so bizarrely narcissistic that it has a niche audience.

So Hamilton sticks around. Unlike The Producers, the previous winner for a gimmick musical that refused to go away because of Manhattan tastemakers, it isn’t any fun and there’s no reason for any functioning non-D.C. or Manhattanite to go see it a second time. Having Hamilton leaves D.C. abandons its core audience.

And helps put an end to the 10-year nightmare.