Lin-Manuel Miranda spent countless days researching the Founding Fathers in order to spend countless nights bringing their stories to life on stage in his Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "Hamilton: An American Musical."
With that in mind, The Huffington Post's Alyona Minkovski asked Miranda to give some insight into how our nation's architects might have reacted to GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.
"I think the Founding Fathers would be looking around at the lights and screaming, there's a lot for the [them] to wrap their head around if they were around in our time," the Puerto Rican star said during a Facebook live stream on Thursday morning at The Rockefeller Foundation.
The 36-year-old Tony winner may not have truly known what the Founding Fathers would say about Trump, but he did express his own feelings on the Republican candidate's divisive rhetoric.
"It's really interesting," Miranda said. "I think that the notion of pointing at the newest group of people to enter a country and saying 'they're the reason you don't have jobs' is old, that's really old politics. That actually happens over and over again in our nation's history. This is a particularly virulent strain of it, but it'll go away and it'll come back again."
During the live stream, Minkovski also spoke with Miranda about the Orlando shooting and the moving acceptance speech at the Tonys he delivered inspired by the tragedy.
"I had scheduled myself a little time to think about what I would say if I were lucky enough to win a Tony award that night, and it was all I could think about," Miranda said of what led to him writing the sonnet. "The theme of our show actually resonates with some of the things that were coming out of that tragedy, which is that love wins, and love lasts longer, and acts of hate can destroy lives and destroy families, but our legacies are actually carried on by the people who love us and talk about us and carry us in their memories. And that's where I went in my head, as I was reflecting on the tragedy that morning."
The two also touched upon how the mass shooting was an attack that had greatly impacted the Latino LGBTQ community, particularly those of Puerto Rican descent. When asked if he felt enough attention had been paid by the media to the victim's heritage, Miranda said conversations on the topic were far from over.
"I think we're going to be look at this for the rest of our lives, this was a national tragedy, one of the worst shooting tragedies in our nation's history," he said. "So, I think there's time for all of it to be discussed and looked at."
The conversation with Miranda was held just ahead of his interview with Judith Rodin, president of The Rockefeller Foundation, as part of the organizations' "Insight Dialogues" series. The Huffington Post is a media partner with The Rockefeller Foundation on the series.
Watch the full Facebook live stream here.
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