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?

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.

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After the President and the First Lady made a now-rare public appearance together on Wednesday night, Jimmy Kimmel is newly concerned about the state of their marriage. “It was opening night for the new and MAGA-friendly Kennedy Center, led by Donald Trump, their self-appointed chairman of the board,” Kimmel said in his Thursday monologue.

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The president watched the musical's opening night at the Kennedy Center amid reports that some in the cast would boycott the performance.

After Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment in 2016, Trump supporters rebranded themselves “Les Déplorables”—a pun that became rally branding. Trump embraced it fully, appearing at a Miami event the following week with the slogan projected behind him. “Welcome to all of you deplorables,” he told the crowd.