--- title: Donald Trump Trolled by 'Hamilton' April Fools' Prank description: A New York website claims you can get free tickets to Hamilton by calling a number— which connects you to Donald Trump's campaign headquarters. canonical: https://time.com/4279296/donald-trump-free-hamilton-tickets-prank/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-01T16:17:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:24:25.763Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Trolled by 'Hamilton' April Fools' Prank og:description: The campaign's HQ was listed as the contact for free tickets og:url: https://time.com/4279296/donald-trump-free-hamilton-tickets-prank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb38a621912ef40f2/69888d4e0b72e39f376e8c46/donald-trump32.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: MSNBC - Election Coverage - Season: 2016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Trolled by 'Hamilton' April Fools' Prank twitter:description: The campaign's HQ was listed as the contact for free tickets twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb38a621912ef40f2/69888d4e0b72e39f376e8c46/donald-trump32.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump Trolled by _Hamilton_ April Fools Prank  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Apr 1, 2016 4:17 PM UTC  Donald Trump and Chris Matthews on March 30, 2016. Donald Trump and Chris Matthews on March 30, 2016.Tim Hiatt—MSNBC/Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Apr 1, 2016 4:17 PM UTC If there’s one thing you can be sure of, it’s that thousands of people would jump at the chance to see the musical _Hamilton_ for free. At least that’s what website [Brokelyn](http://brokelyn.com/hamilton-prospect-park-show-2016/) is betting on with its April Fools’ joke aimed at Donald Trump. In a [post](http://brokelyn.com/hamilton-prospect-park-show-2016/) on the lifestyle and deals focussed website, Brokelyn claims that the cast of the Broadway musical phenomenon will put on a free show in Prospect Park in New York over the summer. To score one of the supposedly 7,000 free tickets available, the post urges readers to call a phone number. But call that number and instead of a _Hamilton_ ticket office, you get connected to Trump campaign headquarters. (Luckily for Trump’s office, a recorded message first fields the call, so human operators won’t have to deal with the potential flood of ticket seekers.) The author of the post tips their hat to the joke, saying “If you get an extra one, it sure would make America great again if you took us.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4279296/donald-trump-free-hamilton-tickets-prank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4279296/donald-trump-free-hamilton-tickets-prank/"},"headline":"Trump Trolled by Hamilton April Fools Prank","datePublished":"2016-04-01T16:17:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:24:25.763Z","description":"The campaign's HQ was listed as the contact for free tickets","url":"https://time.com/4279296/donald-trump-free-hamilton-tickets-prank/","keywords":["New York","Theater","Donald Trump","Hamilton"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb38a621912ef40f2/69888d4e0b72e39f376e8c46/donald-trump32.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb38a621912ef40f2/69888d4e0b72e39f376e8c46/donald-trump32.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"MSNBC - Election Coverage - Season: 2016","caption":"MSNBC - Election Coverage - Season: 2016","creditText":"Tim Hiatt—MSNBC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4279296/donald-trump-free-hamilton-tickets-prank/","name":"Trump Trolled by Hamilton April Fools Prank"}}]}] ```