We're all pretty misérable...

Pictured: Trump holding an obviously
photoshopped picture of Valjean's knuckles.

Too my first question is why is the president attending a production of Les Misérables in the first place? I myself have never seen it, but I'm passingly familiar with the plot and I understand it to be a story about redemption and the triumph of the human spirit set against the background of class struggle and turmoil and--oh, wait, do you suppose he thinks Javert is the good guy? Like, maybe he's under the impression that we're supposed to root for the psychotic authoritarian police inspector doggedly pursues a guy who once stole bread to feed his starving family? 

I bring this up because evidently ten cast members from the touring production of Les Misérables have decided to boycott the performance at the Kennedy Center the night the president will be attending. 

I know actors. I've worked with actors. It takes a
lot to make them not want to be on stage. Like, a lot.

Other failed casinos and an ever-
increasing number of lawsuits.

You might recall that after his landslide victory in November when most people voted for somebody else (it's a loose definition of landslide), he appointed himself the President of the Board of the Kennedy Center. He then proceeded to appoint a bunch of sycophants to the board, and cancel anything he deemed woke, which, still waiting for a definition on that. Anyway, The move was, as you can imagine, not received well, and there's just a general sense that he doesn't give a shit about the Kennedy Center, he just wants his name on things. 

Trolled him. Right to his
scowling, felonious face. 

But whatever, he's got an ego, and we're all suffering for it. Which brings us back to the question of why he's even going. It's ostensibly a fund raiser for the Center, but I can't imagine his being there is going to help. Add to this the inevitable disruptions of protestors, and the fact that half the cast is refusing to go on. Oh, and remember that time the Army Chorus trolled him by singing "Do You Hear the People Sing?" Well that's from this show. So you can throw in a reminder of that public humiliation. And, I mean, if nothing else I just don't see him as a theatre guy.

This is someone who nodded off at the Pope's funeral. Are we really to believe that he'll be able to sit through three hours of people singing about things that aren't him? Three hours where he isn't the center of attention? Unless...damnit, he's going to make himself the center of attention, isn't he?

And the less said about what he did at Notre Dame, the better.