I’m so old I remember the last time celebrity rockers and rappers banded together to deprive a shitty, racist regime of A-list entertainment:
Can’t remember who 80% of those people are, but good for them. Now a new generation is stepping up: Trump can’t attract top entertainers to his swearing-in shitshow. Via TPM:
My friend Stuart Stevens has the rare combined vantage point of being both a top Republican campaign professional and also someone who has built a successful career in Hollywood. He’s mentioned more than once the unique challenges of entertainment programming at the GOP’s quadrennial nominating conventions. But something unique or heretofore unprecedented is happening with the Trump inauguration. It’s no surprise there’d be a 85% or even 95% freeze out from Hollywood and the music industry. But it appears to be closer to 99% or 100%….
If Ted Cruz had been elected President you’d likely see something close to as total a shut out. But Cruz would strap on his Lee Greenwood and love the smell of Hollywood’s contempt in the morning. Not Trump. All reporting suggests that Trump is extremely unhappy about the situation. Which of course makes perfect sense. Depending on how you choose to inflect it – with sympathy or derision – Trump’s movement is based on a rejection of the condescension and arrogance of the cultural elite. And yet no one yearns more achingly for celebrity approval than Trump.
According to The Wrap, with Andrea Bocelli now dropping out, Trump’s partner and reality tv mogul Mark Burnett has shaken up the transition staff to try to find some entertainers willing to participate. Burnett has pulled in Suzanne Bender, a former booker for “Dancing With the Stars” and “American Idol.”
Here’s hoping entertainers continue to freeze Trump out, and he has to make do with vulgar has-beens like Nugent and reality show nobodies. It’s not at all important in the scheme of things, but to a brittle narcissist like Trump, slights like that sting like hell. Fell that burn, shitgibbon. Feel that burn.