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?

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?

Trump attended a performance of "Les Miserables" as anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests continued in Los Angeles.

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