Carrie Underwood to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration
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The American Idol winner and Grammy-winning country singer will perform America the Beautiful at the ceremony. Country singer Carrie Underwood is scheduled to perform at Donald Trump’s second inauguration this month. A spokesperson confirmed to Axios that the star will be on the lineup. Underwood, who rose to fame after winning the fourth season of American Idol, will perform America the Beautiful.
The 41-year-old Oklahoma native has remained mostly apolitical but has been vocal about her feelings on animal cruelty, speaking out about a Tennessee bill in 2013 that was seen as a way of making it harder for activists to record animal cruelty and share it with the authorities.
“I feel like more people try to pin me places politically,” she said to the Guardian in 2019. “I try to stay far out of politics if possible, at least in public, because nobody wins. It’s crazy. Everybody tries to sum everything up and put a bow on it, like it’s black and white. And it’s not like that.”.
She did poke fun at Trump during the 2017 Country Music Awards with a musical parody alongside Brad Paisley. A reworked version of hit Before He Cheats referred to Trump’s Twitter habits at the time, with the pair singing that “it’s fun to watch, yeah, that’s for sure / ’til little Rocket Man starts a nuclear war”.
