Boos, cheers and a heavy dose of irony as Trump takes in Les Mis against backdrop of LA protests

The tuxedo-clad US president - accompanied by first lady Melania - promised a golden era' for America at his first Kennedy Center production in Washington

Do you hear the people sing? / Singing the song of angry men? / It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!"

When the rousing anthem of revolution filled the Kennedy Center on Wednesday night, Donald Trump may have had a Pavlovian response along the lines of Get me Stephen Miller" or Send in the marines". We will never know.