I suspect that anyone who would be willing to associate with him is unlikely to be an A-list anything.
Wasn’t there an artist whose career basically ended after they played Reagan’s inauguration? Trump is a terrible candidate. He is neither conservative nor liberal, but falls more firmly in the camp of “asshole”. One of the least popular politicians ever to rise to power in America, you’d have to be an idiot, without choice, or truly desperate to tie yourself to that as a celebrity - see also, in order: Ted Nugent, Paul Ryan, Scott Baio.
Trump doesn’t need any A list talent. He is the “greatest celebrity in the world” and his inauguration will “surround him with soft sensuality”.
So says Tom Barrack, head of the inaugural committee.
Jesus, D’Mail, hire some new copy editors.
"the **Morman **Tabernacle Choir "
“A-listers **like the ones Barrack blew off **turned offers from Trump’s team down. Celine Dion, Garth Brooks, Elton John and intentionally known singers others said they wouldn’t do it.”
“‘His instruction to me was the campaign is over, I am now president for all the people. I want you to build a bridge and tie them back in. **I was to heal the wounds **and I want to get back to work on Saturday morning.’”
Of course not.
Ron Jr?
Ha!
I bet he can get R Kelly now.
If I were an A-list talent and Trump had asked me, I would have agreed and then not shown up.
It would be worth the legal troubles that would ensue.
He will cut the Gordian Knot and be his own entertainment !
Be prepared for immediately after the oath and ceremonial embrace with the now ex-president for Trump to rip off his clothes, revealing a top hat and tails ( white with gold revers ), and as the massed bands strike up ‘76 Trombones’ he prances and gambols ahead of his adoring hordes on the road to the White House.
That is a dirty lie. I happen to know that Kirk Cameron is available.
Too bad Melanoma has bugged out of the first lady gig, she could do a Pole Dance. Duck dynasty on kazoos, ‘Stars and Stripes Forever’. Kick line of, oh, three Rockettes? The baskets of despicables would soil their shorts with ecstasy.
I won’t be watching, but the thought of this douchebag ‘surrounded by soft sensuality’ (involving his harem of cracked-out looking skanks?) makes me giggle.
I thought he was just going to walk down the line in front of them, grabbing their crotches, and telling the ones who weren’t sufficiently moist for him, “you’re fired”.
I can see the appeal. But it’s an action that’s small, weak, and classless.
When someone deeply and profoundly awful makes a request, the self-possessed stand up tall and tell them to fuck off.
And when someone deeply controversial makes a request, people who depend on public approval make vague statements about previous commitments.
Thousands of celebrities, sure. But thousands of A-list celebrities? Not really. And it’s not like a random sampling of 63 million people voted for him. 63 million generally misinformed vaguely racist rubes (and a few dedicated assholes) voted for him.
If there were A-listers who wanted to support him publically, there’s been plenty of time for them to come out of the woodwork. Instead, we’ve seen Scott Baio, Stacey Dash, and Ted Nugent. Recognizable names to many, but hardly A-list.
You may be right that some A-listers who support him in private, or at least feel somewhat neutral, but they depend on personal and business relationships with lots of others who publicly hate his guts. Why stick your neck out?
These are not editorial errors. They’re clues.
Exactly. Not the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. A tribute band from Provo.
The first part is this campaign’s intent to disrespect the current president. Give them credit for recognizing they probably couldn’t get away with “Osama, the Nigerian Muslim.” And the second part is just a stealth-jab at how déclassé it is to intentionally seek out fame and fortune. Cool performers just stumble into their prominence. His Trumpness won’t have truck with anyone who grubs after celebrity. (Besides himself. Because competition.)
Ok, that’s just confusing. But I theorize that confusion is the intended effect.
Given the recent allegations about his Russian links, the Cocteau Twins could reform to sing him Pink Orange Red. Except, you know, it’s a lovely song.
I did see someone wondering if by any chance the banjo players from Deliverance might be available.
I hear these guys are free on the 20th: Cossack March Singing - YouTube
Are you maybe thinking of black actor Ben Vereen’s tribute to the famous black vaudeville performer Bert Williams at the 1981 Reagan inauguration?
Vereen started out his act with one of Williams’ minstrel-show-type “Dixie nostalgia” songs, wearing blackface makeup. The network chose not to broadcast the last part of the act where Vereen removed the makeup while singing another song with a more angry and bitter tone:
In other words, what audiences saw was Vereen apparently playing along enthusiastically with the “happy darky” stereotype, for a President whose candidacy had been [strongly associated with racism](Reagan candidacy racism), and never saw the part of the act symbolically rejecting and denouncing the stereotype.
So what hurt Vereen’s image as a performer was the incorrect perception of his inaugural performance, not the mere fact that he was performing at the inauguration of Reagan.
Being on ‘a list’ isn’t the same as being on the ‘a’ list.