President Donald Trump 's attendance at a performance of Les Miserables at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, during which he received cheers and boos from sections of the crowd, triggered a wave of jokes and memes on social media.

Stephen Colbert ripped into Donald Trump for his baffling inability to answer a simple question about Les Misérables—despite claiming he’s seen the musical multiple times. “What do you mean you don’t know?

Donald Trump hit a flat note Wednesday when pressed on “Les Misérables,” the musical he’s long praised as one of his favorites. Appearing on the red carpet ahead of a performance of the show at the Kennedy Center — the typically bipartisan institution which Trump has purged and controversially made himself chair — the president was asked by a reporter: “Have you seen the musical before and do you identify more with Jean Valjean or Javert?

President Donald Trump attended the opening night of “Les Misérables,” a musical set against a background of revolution and protest, at Washington’s John F. Kennedy Center for the ...