Child Rock known as out former First Girl Michelle Obama for snubbing President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration — simply days earlier than the ceremony.
“She appears a bit of offended,” Rock stated on Jesse Watters Primetime on Thursday night time.
Rock, who’s a vocal Trump supporter, recalled when he was tasked with performing on the Youth Inaugural Ball hours after former President Barack Obama was first sworn into workplace in 2009.
The 5-time Grammy nominee, 54, agreed to the gig on the Hilton Washington alongside rapper Kanye West and rock band Fall Out Boy out of “respect for the president.”
“I might kindly remind her that years again when Obama was first elected, I didn’t vote for him. However they requested me to play the Inauguration. And I performed it and I went,” the rocker stated. “I had fun. I went out of respect for the President so I might kindly remind Michelle about that.”
Obama, 61, will skip the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration on the Capitol after she failed to point out up at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral final week in Washington, DC.
“Former President Barack Obama is confirmed to attend the sixtieth Inaugural Ceremonies. Former first woman Michelle Obama is not going to attend the upcoming inauguration,” the Workplace of Barack and Michelle Obama stated in a press release.
The previous first woman’s staff didn’t present a cause for her anticipated absence.
The Obamas attended Trump’s first inauguration in 2017.
President Joe Biden and First Girl Dr. Jill Biden are anticipated to attend the historic occasion subsequent week.
Former Presidents George W. Bush and Invoice Clinton and their wives Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton are additionally as a consequence of attend Trump’s swearing-in ceremony.
On Monday, sources instructed Web page Six that Trump’s staff was “having a very good chortle” over Michelle Obama’s determination.
“They didn’t count on her to return anyway,” a supply says of these concerned in planning the inaugural festivities.
Rock, whose actual identify is Robert James Ritchie, took the stage on the ultimate night time of the Republican Nationwide Conference in July to play his hit track “American Unhealthy A–” earlier than Trump accepted the GOP presidential nomination.
Nevertheless, Rock stated he “respectfully” declined an invite to “play a few songs” at Trump’s inauguration ceremony — however supplied his assist in planning.
He teased that he created one thing “fairly particular” for the occasion.
“I’ve spent a lot time on this,” he stated. “I put one thing collectively. I put all of it down on paper to the minute. All the pieces choreographed.”
“They liked it. After all we get into it and we’re going by way of the due diligence to get it achieved and — god bless them — right here comes the Secret Service.”
“They’re like, yeah, we will’t gentle off fireworks and have large pyrotechnics. I’m undecided we may have strippers on poles,” he quipped.
The “All Summer time Lengthy” singer will as an alternative carry out on the “Make America Nice Once more Rally” at Capital One Area to cap off the Inauguration Day occasions late Monday.