# What's the deal with Trump's Inaguration Committee's inability to secure "A" list talent? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192 "2017-01-03T02:03:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/41 "2017-01-05T03:31:49Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > In the convention they were using D list celebrities. This isn’t the first time Scott Baio has been called into to replace a better-known celebrity, and besides, he skews more wackjobish. Trump hiring foreign workers for domestic services is not [a](http://www.workpermit.com/news/donald-trump-continues-hire-foreign-workers-h-2b-visas-and-h-1b-visas-20161106) [new](http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/22/news/companies/trump-foreign-workers/) [story](http://thehill.com/homenews/news/309053-trump-will-again-hire-foreign-workers-to-staff-private-resort-in-florida). However, foreign born workers refusing to work for him is. In other news, the Trump Organization is suing celebrity chefs [José Andrés and Geoffrey Zakariain](http://www.grubstreet.com/2016/10/what-happened-after-celebrity-chefs-bailed-on-trumps-hotel.html) for bailing on restaurant agreements after he accused Mexicans (who make up the majority of their staffs of being “rapists and murderers”. Trump doesn’t have enough sides of his mouth to talk out of. It’s good thing he has Kellyanne “Obsequious” Conway and Jason “C\*\*\*face” Miller to also speak lies for him. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/42 "2017-01-05T03:36:23Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Trump doesn’t have enough sides of his mouth to talk out of. It’s good thing he has Kellyanne “Obsequious” Conway and Jason “C\*\*\*face” Miller to also speak lies for him. Don’t you hate it when some loathsome figure pops up in the press who happens to share a name with you? I mean, I’ve been going by “Cuntface” for _years_. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/43 "2017-01-05T03:55:30Z")
Well I know for sure that Jon Voight voted for donald. Now, his brother is Chip Taylor who wrote Wild Thing and Angel of the Morning. This is all I got. I am loving the way this is playing out though. There’s a lot of people who are having the peak experiences of their lives in the last 2 months and have no idea that it’s not going to go on forever, or even a few weeks. Seriously though why not Kanye? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/44 "2017-01-05T03:57:39Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I mean, I’ve been going by “Cuntface” for _years_. Yeah, but does your face actually look like that? Seriously, I don’t even mean it as an insult; just every time I see him on some interview show, the first thing I think is, “That man’s face looks like…” And then he opens his mouth and out spews something worse than the most diseased prostitute in New Orleans could harbor, and I feel ashamed that I’ve defamed even the derogatory name for women’s genitalia. Meanwhile, Conway doesn’t even that much of an excuse. I’m not even sure what kind of calamity happened to her. She looks like she “drank from the wrong cup” and it just didn’t quite disintegrate her. “She chose poorly.” She should be paying Kate McKinnon for even making her seem human or in any way personable even in parody. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/45 "2017-01-05T05:46:16Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Yeah, but does your face actually look like that? Seriously, I don’t even mean it as an insult; just every time I see him on some interview show, the first thing I think is, “That man’s face looks like…” And then he opens his mouth and out spews something worse than the most diseased prostitute in New Orleans could harbor, and I feel ashamed that I’ve defamed even the derogatory name for women’s genitalia. I see what you mean. But you know what his face looks like to me? In college, my roommates and I bought a cheap blow-up doll to put in different poses around the apartment (kitchen table, resting on the john, tucked in to someone’s bed after they’ve passed out from a night of heavy drinking, etc). I know, I know-- we we’re hilarious. Now, this thing was ridiculously cheap. Like if you had actually used it for the purpose it was intended, you’d have sliced yourself open on the razor sharp seams holding the beach-ball-like plastic together. Her boobs were merely black circles painted on her flat chest with dime-sized red dots in the middle. But just below the waistline of the doll (“Rita” was her name; “Touchdown Rita” was her nickname, as her arms were permanently thrust into the air like a football referee after a scoring drive), the manufacturer did their very best to present a certain level of realism. You see, Touchdown Rita had a neatly-cropped little circle of wiry hair glued around _the hole_. You know the hole I’m talking about. Anyway, that ring of wires [looked exactly like this.](http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160814123951-jason-miller-katrina-pierson-stelter-sot-00003707-large-169.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/46 "2017-01-05T06:18:32Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Maybe Bill Clinton could get onstage and get play some sax? You have to know how that would play out. A rubenesque woman would walk by and we’d have another drive by shooting. The FBI would send the evidence to Maury Povich… Best not to turn over that rock. I’m hoping Trump Does a 15 minute speech and it’s done. Watching entertainers fill a time slot has all the appeal of sitting through a wedding. I don’t know who started this Super Bowl halftime tradition but it needs to stop. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/47 "2017-01-05T06:20:30Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Up front. In cash. Especially considering Trump [rarely pays the people he hires](http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-business-plan-left-a-trail-of-unpaid-bills-1465504454). As Stranger on a Train pointed out, Trump even describes non-payment as part of his strategy for accumulating wealth. If I were a performer, I wouldn’t play for him, even if I was excited to have him as president. He’d be too big a credit risk to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/48 "2017-01-05T14:41:35Z")
Are there no longer any Skinhead bands? Are there no country acts from the Bible Belt? How about the team of regulars from Branson, Missouri? What’s Johnny Rebel up to these days? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/49 "2017-01-05T15:52:33Z")
Well, ever since [Prussian Blue](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2165342/Prussian-Blue-twins-Lynx-Lamb-Marijuana-changed-Nazis-peace-loving-hippies.html) broke up… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/50 "2017-01-05T16:05:41Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Yeah, but does your face actually look like that? Seriously, I don’t even mean it as an insult; just every time I see him on some interview show, the first thing I think is, “That man’s face looks like…” And then he opens his mouth and out spews something worse than the most diseased prostitute in New Orleans could harbor, and I feel ashamed that I’ve defamed even the derogatory name for women’s genitalia. > > Meanwhile, Conway doesn’t even that much of an excuse. I’m not even sure what kind of calamity happened to her. She looks like she “drank from the wrong cup” and it just didn’t quite disintegrate her. “She chose poorly.” She should be paying Kate McKinnon for even making her seem human or in any way personable even in parody. > > Stranger As I said in another thread, I think of her as **The Mouth of Sauron**. > **[Battle of the Morannon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouth_of_Sauron)** > > In J. R. R. Tolkien's epic fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings, the Battle of the Morannon or the Battle of the Black Gate, is the final confrontation in the War of the Ring. Gondor and its allies send a small army ostensibly to challenge Sauron at the entrance to his land of Mordor; he supposes that they have with them the One Ring and mean to use it to defeat him. In fact, the Ring is being carried by the hobbits Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee into Mordor to destroy it in Mount Doom, and the ar... ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/51 "2017-01-05T16:29:04Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > …Trump doesn’t have enough sides of his mouth to talk out of. It’s good thing he has …Jason “C\*\*\*face” Miller to also speak lies for him… Not anymore: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/transition-advisers-tweets-add-intrigue-to-trump-aides-sudden-resignation/2016/12/25/a5aa0018-cae4-11e6-a87f-b917067331bb\_story.html?utm\_term=.1a9c28b970c6](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/transition-advisers-tweets-add-intrigue-to-trump-aides-sudden-resignation/2016/12/25/a5aa0018-cae4-11e6-a87f-b917067331bb_story.html?utm_term=.1a9c28b970c6) ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/52 "2017-01-05T19:27:32Z")
Maybe the big names are holding out for [The Freedom Concert](https://twitter.com/VoteHillary2016/status/812045480326594560/photo/1) which is supposed to be at the same time as the inauguration? BTW, as far as anybody knows, this is not a real thing, although I am a little surprised nobody has formed a YouTube “list” that consists of all of the listed acts. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/53 "2017-01-05T20:42:58Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Up front. In cash. Maybe gold instead of cash? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/54 "2017-01-05T21:54:08Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > Maybe gold instead of cash? Just make sure you don’t end up with a [pressing engagement](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eHvIv01QNhA). Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/55 "2017-01-05T22:01:58Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Speaking of foreign talent; he can always ask Vladimir Vladimirovich to send over some Russian pop stars. Pussy Riot spring to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/56 "2017-01-11T06:21:23Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Is anyone else surprised? As much as I’m dreading the incoming administration’s time, I am quite surprised there’s absolutely no bands willing to play at his inauguration. Surely there must be some right-wing and/or libertarian (or at least Independent) bands out there making the A-list. What about Avenged SevenFold? Kid Rock? (Are they modern/A-list?) Metallica? Megadeth? Ted Nugent? Styx? Sammy Hagar? (Oh, okay, no longer A-listers) –G? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/57 "2017-01-11T06:33:36Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Pussy Riot spring to mind. That’s in the receiving line when he starts pressing the flesh. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/58 "2017-01-11T09:24:54Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Speaking of foreign talent; he can always ask Vladimir Vladimirovich to send over some Russian pop stars. “Pop stars”? Is that what they call them when [prostitutes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19911350&postcount=401) [are hired to pee on each other for you](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19911658&postcount=408)? I don’t think that would fly at the inauguration though. For one thing, it’s going to be cold out there, baby. ---
**Author:** ![Jane\_Smythe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@Jane\_Smythe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_Smythe)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/59 "2017-01-11T09:56:36Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Is anyone else surprised? I’m not surprised. They don’t want to support him or be associated with him. He’s a complete AH and they know it. He’s despicable and deplorable. ---
**Author:** ![Jane\_Smythe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@Jane\_Smythe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_Smythe)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192/60 "2017-01-11T09:59:05Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Maybe Scott Baio can do a Cat Scratch Fever duet with Ted? LOL Too funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-trumps-inaguration-committees-inability-to-secure-a-list-talent/776192.md?page=4)