Carrie Underwood is running to her rescue.
The former American Idol champion is booked to perform at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration on Monday, January 20.
This booking is not going down well with many social media users as a group of people consider Trump to be a fascist, racist and/or rapist.
He is also a convicted criminal.
According to various celebrity gossip sources, the cast will sing “America the Beautiful” next Monday — with accompaniment from the Armed Forces Chorus and the United States Naval Academy Glee Club.
Apparently aware of the backlash generated by this decision, Underwood released a statement on January 13.
“I love my country and I’m honored to have been asked to sing at the inauguration and be a small part of this historic event,” Underwood said in a statement to People magazine.
“I am grateful to answer the call at a time when we must all come together in a spirit of unity and looking toward the future.”
In January 2017, Trump was rejected by several actors who were asked to play the same role.
In the end, 3 Doors Down, Toby Keith, Big & Rich and Jackie Evancho were among the handful of stars who signed up to take part in this celebration of the transition of power.
Underwood, for her part, has never been particularly political or outspoken on topics affecting most Americans.
It appears that she came out as anti-mask during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, if one is to consider that opinion and what it says about her.
“I try to stay away from politics if possible, at least publicly, because nobody wins,” Underwood told The Guardian in 2019. Everyone tries to summarize everything and put a bow on it, like it’s black and white. And it is not so.”
However, in 2018, some observers believed that Underwood’s single “The Bullet” was some kind of political statement.
You can blame it on hate or blame it on guns/but mothers shouldn’t bury their sonsshe sings in the first verse. Left a hole in his heart and it’s still not healed/The bullets keep flying.’
Underwood said about the reaction years ago:
“Immediately people said, ‘Oh, you have a song about gun control!’ It was more about lives that were changed because of some terrible event.
“And it bothers me when people take a song, or something I said and try to make me wrong or force me to choose a side or something. It’s a discussion – a long discussion.”