Lee Greenwood helped ring in Donald Trump’s official return to the White Home.
The nation singer, 82, carried out his patriotic anthem “God Bless the U.S.A” at Trump’s inauguration within the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Monday.
Greenwood wore a navy blue go well with with a blue tie for his efficiency. He additionally wore a USA flag pin on his go well with.
He sang his iconic track earlier than Trump, 78, was sworn in because the forty seventh president.
Greenwood was pictured greeting Sen. Mitch McConnell after his efficiency.
The Grammy winner was certainly one of a number of musicians tapped to carry out on the political occasion. Carrie Underwood is singing “America The Beautiful” and opera singer Christopher Macchio is signing the nationwide anthem.
Greenwood additionally took half in Trump’s Make America Nice Once more Victory Rally at Capital One Area in D.C. on Sunday, alongside Child Rock, The Village Individuals, Billy Ray Cyrus and Liberty College’s Reward Choir.
Jason Aldean and Rascal Flatts will play on the Commander in Chief Ball after the inauguration.
Greenwood infamously wrote “God Bless the U.S.A.” in half-hour at the back of his tour bus in 1983.
This was his third inauguration look. He sang for Trump in 2017 and George H. W. Bush in 1989.
Trump invited Greenwood to carry out not too long ago whereas he and his spouse, former Miss Tennessee Kimberly Payne, had been company at Mar-a-Lago.
Greenwood additionally sang as Trump took the stage at his rally at Madison Sq. Backyard in Oct. 2024 earlier than the election.
Earlier than the inauguration, the singer advised the Publish that introducing Trump after the then-presidential candidate was almost killed at a rally in Butler, PA, was “the most historic moment for me in all of my performances with presidents.”
“This is the moment you have to introduce the president to the world again with a bandage on his right ear. I had to go on his time, on his clock. He took very slow steps walking to the box,” stated Greenwood.
Greenwood additionally defended Underwood, 41, who obtained some backlash for agreeing to carry out on the inauguration.
“I pity those people that think they have to reach out to a star like her and run some negativity past her when all you have to do is say, ‘Thank you for performing for our next president,’” he advised The Publish.
Greenwood, who has carried out with the “American Idol” champion on the Nation Music Awards, stated haters must “move on.”
“I mean, he is the next president. Come on,” Greenwood added. “Stop this negative crap.”
