Oh, the misery ... this can't be how President Trump envisioned opening night for his revamped Kennedy Center going -- a vocal battle between boo birds and his supporters -- and that was even before the curtain came up on "Les Misérables."
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00:00Last night, the president certainly was acting like there is no crisis across the country and that there's nothing to worry about.
00:07He was taken in a show at the Kennedy Center, which, you know, he is revamped.
00:12He is removed. He's placed himself as the new chair.
00:16He took over.
00:16Of the board, put on new board members, a lot of his supporters and even some of his cabinet members.
00:21And we know for years the president has been a huge fan of musical theater, which is surprising to a lot of people.
00:27Like he loves Evita. He loves playing musical theater at his rallies.
00:33Yeah. And apparently he's a fan of Les Miserables, which is beyond serendipitous or ironic.
00:43But that's what they opened the reopened the Kennedy Center with last night, a performance of Les Mis.
00:49And you saw the president, the first lady walking in.
00:52And once they got into the theater, it did not seem like a night at the theater.
00:58It seemed like a political rally.
01:09So there's some booze, but a lot of cheers.
01:16Yeah. And it makes sense that, you know, the audience now that he's running things would be sort of a pro-Trump audience there.
01:24J.D. Vance there, other members of the cabinet were there.
01:27J.D.'s wife is now on the board at the Kennedy Center.
01:32So it's an interesting moment for that, too.
01:36Of course, when you think about what Les Miserables is about, it's about people protesting what they see as authoritarianism and going into the streets and saying, do you see the people sing?
01:50And so that's the story.
01:51It actually played itself out because a reporter outside asked Donald Trump if there was a character in Les Mis that he particularly identified with.
01:58The only two male characters of any note are Joubert, the police officer who is by letter of the law, not transactional at all, which does not resemble Trump.
02:07By his own admission, he's very transactional.
02:09And then Jean Valjean, who is the criminal who made good and then became very charitable.
02:14So I'm not sure that it was really a fair question.
02:16He's not going to choose that.
02:16Right, exactly.
02:17And so Donald Trump, he skirted it.
02:19He turned to his wife and asked Melania.
02:21Melania sort of smiled broadly as she does.
02:23And that was the end of it.
02:24Yeah, it was an interesting night at the theater.
02:29And by the way, I also think you're right.
02:33It was an unfair question.
02:35And it was almost like they were trying to get him, like, pick one and then we're going to write a big story about the one that you didn't fall for.
02:41And speaking of that unfair question, we asked our audience that unfair question.
02:44Yes, we did.
02:45So what do the audience think?
02:47Trump is more like.
02:47Although, how much of the audience really knows Les Mis?
02:50Hey, you know, it's the world's most popular musical.
02:53Let's see.
02:53So what do we think?
02:55All right.
02:55Yeah, okay.
02:56Here's my, there's only 1,400 people voted.
02:59So I'm guessing not a lot of people know the inner details of the plot of Les Mis.
03:07It is a great show.
03:08It is a great show.
03:09What are the great shows of all time?
03:10It is.
03:11I'm Tyler from Los Angeles.
03:13And honestly, the fact that this happened during Les Mis is ironic.
03:16Like, I mean, it's a show about rebellion and fighting oppression.
03:19So seeing him get these mixed reactions feels pretty on brand for the moment.
03:24Yeah, exactly.
03:25By the way, it is a great show.
03:27My only hesitation is that I saw it twice.
03:29I fell asleep twice.
03:30Oh, really?
03:31It was too long.
03:32I apologize.
03:32And probably better to see without Russell Crowe singing.
03:35Remember when he was in the movie version?
03:38Not the best singer.
03:39Great actor, though.