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Posted: 2021-04-13T17:39:30Z | Updated: 2021-04-13T17:39:30Z

Fans might notice a few changes to the In The Heights score when the film adaptation of the hit musical arrives in theaters in June.

The song 96,000 , which appears about halfway through the stage versions first act, originally contained a reference to Donald Trump . Ill be a businessman, richer than Ninas daddy, the character Benny sings. Donald Trump and I are on the links and hes my caddy.

In The Heights premiered on Broadway in 2008, eight years before Trumps presidency. But when composer Lin-Manuel Miranda began revisiting the music ahead of the movie version, he opted to swap Trump out for golf star Tiger Woods .

In an interview with Variety last week, Miranda shared his reasoning. When I wrote it, he was an avatar for the Monopoly man, he said of Trump. He was just, like, a famous rich person. Then when time moves on and he becomes the stain on American democracy, you change the lyric.

Time made a fool of that lyric, he added, and so we changed it.