You might remember President Donald Trump's inauguration as the event that literally no one wanted to perform at.
You might remember President Donald Trump's inauguration as the event that literally no one wanted to perform at.
According to the new book Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump’s Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington by reporters Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng, President Trump was really hoping for a performance by QUEEN Aretha Franklin at his inauguration.
"Trump, who knew Franklin leaned liberal and had sung for Obama, had for years claimed the legendary soul artist was his dear ‘friend’ and desired it to be pitched to her as a chance to bridge the ideological chasm and to help heal the country following an emotional, unsparing general election."
"More bluntly, in the year and a half before she passed away, Aretha Franklin would repeatedly call Donald Trump ‘despicable’ and, even more pointedly, a huge ‘piece of [expletive]".