Trump lands Toby Keith, Jon Voight, Jennifer Holliday, Lee Greenwood, 3 Doors Down for inauguration

[herding cats]

John Wagner‏ @WPJohnWagner
Trump's Inaugural committee announces some more entertainers: Toby Keith, Jon Voight, Jennifer Holliday, Lee Greenwood, 3 Doors Down

https://mobile.twitter.com/WPJohnWagner/status/819940401066967041

I thought Jon Voight was an actor, what's his performance going to be?

[kwassa]

1. Jennifer Holiday? I am disappointed.

[herding cats]

6. Yeah, seeing her on the list was a disappointment.

I don't know enough about 3 Doors Down to have a commment, but the rest weren't much of a surprise.

[randome]

14. My daughters used to like 3 Doors Down.

I'll have to find out what they think of them now.
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[herding cats]

20. They had a couple of hits in the early 2000's that I remember

I haven't heard anything about them since then. I didn't even know they were still a band.

[crazycatlady]

19. I thought one of the 3 Doors Down members died in 2016

[herding cats]

23. I looked it up, and you're right.

Matt Roberts, Original 3 Doors Down Guitarist, Dead at 38. Matt Roberts, the longtime lead guitarist for rock band 3 Doors Down before he left the band in 2012, died Saturday in a Wisconsin hotel. He was 38.Aug 21, 2016
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/matt-roberts-original-3-doors-down-guitarist-dead-at-38-w435461

[dogman]

38. One original member.

Basically another cover band.

[suffragette]

8. Me, too. Wonder if she will sing "and I am Telling You I'm not Going"?

[bettyellen]

9. As am I.

[SummerSnow]

18. She just wants to be able to perform. Been out the spotlight for years.

especially after her meltdown

[karynnj]

25. She just ended a run in the Color Purple on Broadway.

[asuhornets]

33. Very disappointing...n/t

[Beaverhausen]

35. nevermind

google is my friend

[rogue emissary]

37. Jennifer Holliday Hasnt Committed to Trump Inauguration

Jennifer Holliday Hasn’t Committed to Trump Inauguration, Despite Announcement From His Team (Exclusive)

“Jennifer has been asked to perform but she hasn’t officially agreed to do so yet,” her publicist, Bill Carpenter, told TheWrap. “I’ll let you know later this afternoon for sure if she’ll be performing.”

http://www.thewrap.com/jennifer-holliday-trump-inauguration-has-not-yet-agreed/

[ananda]

45. Maybe she's desperate.

This is so sad.

[bravenak]

52. Me too

[louis-t]

2. That was my question, what's he gonna do?

Scream at the audience? Lee Greenwood? Isn't he, like, 100?

[rsdsharp]

16. yes but

he'll still be signing a medley of his greatest hit.

[3catwoman3]

21. Excellent!

[still_one]

3. Nuts, I want Alec Baldwin!!!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. "I thought Jon Voight was an actor, what's his performance going to be? "

In his role as Mickey Donovan in the cable television series Ray Donovan he snorted a line of coke off a prostitute's ass. Maybe he can reenact it at the Inaugural.

[spanone]

7. or his role as a male prostitute in midnight cowboy..an X-rated movie

[TheDebbieDee]

29. Midnight Cowboy was X-rated? Really?

I thought he won an Oscar for that...

[spanone]

32. first and only X-rated movie to win an oscar

The film won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was the only X-rated film ever to win Best Picture, though its rating has since been changed to R.[3] It has since been placed 36th on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films of all time, and 43rd on its 2007 updated version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Cowboy

p.s. voight did not win an oscar

[TheDebbieDee]

34. I had no idea...

[malchickiwick]

51. They could reprise the scene in which Dustin Hoffman pees himself on the bus...

[herding cats]

11. Haha!

That would be fitting, and it would sure as hell boost the ratings of the event!

[SummerSnow]

17. Voight is a die hard Rethug.

[lapfog_1]

31. From all accounts

there would be a few prostitutes handy on the platform.

[global1]

5. I Understand Clint Eastwood's Chair Is Going To Make An Appearance As Well....nt

[oasis]

10. "FUTK". The Dixie Chicks had it right. nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. more like "crash lands". Laughably pathetic...

[Paladin]

13. Jon Voight will do his usual drooling-from-the-mouth right-wing thing.

That's a helluva lineup the Trumpistas have dredged up. Keep your fingers crossed for a walk-on performance of "Wang Dang Sweet Poon Tang" by Ted Nugent........

[SticksnStones]

15. ...

[nolabear]

43. BWAH! Priceless!

[obamanut2012]

22. I own every single Three Doors Down cds

They are all going in the trash when I get home, and will be deleted off my ipod.

I am adopting a "take no prisoners" approach. Anyone supporting Trump must be made pariahs.

[yardwork]

46. Wait. It might not be true.

[obamanut2012]

57. am waiting until next week

[MFM008]

24. who?

????????????

[1965Comet]

26. Three Doors Down!

I loved their songs for, like, a minute back when they arrived on the scene!

[underpants]

27. Oh god! LEE GREENWOOD

I've told this story a couple of times.

When I was in the Army (90-93) they started playing that god awful Lee GREENWOOD song after taps at final formation. No one was sure what we were supposed to do - stay at attention? Parade rest? Could we leave? - finally after weeks of this I turned to our section Sgt and asked "Do I have to stay here for this crap?" He said no, we could leave. A lot of other units apparently did let their guys go so we had no line at chow or at the taxi stand.

[WhiteTara]

28. No wonder Angelina has nothing to do with

her father. Jon Voight is such a winger, I wouldn't talk with him either.

[Maru Kitteh]

30. What a celebration of

American mediocrity.

[Initech]

44. Hillary Clinton could have got the actual Bruce Springsteen.

Donald Trump gets a Z grade Bruce Springsteen cover band.

[alphafemale]

61. And I have read that they will cancel if Bruce asks them to.

Begging for that call?

[montanto]

36. Zzzzzzzzz

[Eugene]

39. Oh gee, the star power is absolutely dazzling!

The latest report is that Jennifer Holliday may not be going.

http://www.thewrap.com/jennifer-holliday-trump-inauguration-has-not-yet-agreed/

F.U.T.K. is as fitting today as it was in 2003.

[Solly Mack]

40. Jon Voight will probably be named an ambassador to who knows where.

That was a joke. Sort of.

[ornotna]

41. Jennifer Hollidays Publicist Says She Hasnt Committed to Play at Trumps Inauguration

http://theboombox.com/jennifer-hollidaythe-only-african-american-to-perform-at-donald-trumps-presidential-inaguration/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8470136

[Initech]

42. We're going to need more red solo cups!

[ornotna]

47. What, no Nickelback? n/t

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

48. Jon Voight is an actor, and Angelina Jolie's father

eom

[tavernier]

49. "Lands"?

I thought that term was reserved for A list performers.

[Miles Archer]

50. When Greenwood was announced, I knew Keith would be next.

I should have posted it here to validate my prediction.

[Cha]

59. I believe you

[Different Drummer]

53. I am disappointed with 3 Doors Down.

I have always liked their music.

[obamanut2012]

58. same here

[lpbk2713]

54. I've been wondering about the Kennedy Center Honors.

How many choices will turn down the award rather than receive it in the Trump admin?
Will the entire event be cancelled for the first time since 1978 due to lack of participation?

[pstokely]

60. doesn't it already have low ratings?

being on between Xmas and New Year's?

[politicat]

55. Who? Who? Who? He's still alive? Aren't they on the county fair circuit now? NT

[ConnorMarc]

56. A Real "Who's Who" in Entertainment Huh?

Of the D-list that is.

As for Jon Voight, although he's a radical rightwinger, I just can't bring myself to hate him.

"The Champ" got me as a kid, first movie I remember crying about. Me and Ricky both cried. Powerful film.

I kinda like him in "Ray Donovan" too. He's a lovable bastard that guy.

Anyway, I think he might do an updated version of the Obama Chair. That would be pretty entertaining, wouldn't it?

[rogue emissary]

62. Jennifer Holliday Cancels Donald Trump Inauguration Performance

Here's her statement.

Please allow me this opportunity to speak to you directly and to explain why I originally made my decision to perform at the inauguration which was what I had thought would be my simply keeping in my tradition of being a “bi-partisan songbird” having sung for Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush. I was asked to sing a song for what was presented to me as the “Welcome Concert For The People”– in my mind I was reflecting on the past times of being asked to sing for presidents and I only focused on the phrase “For The People”… I thought, For America!

I was honestly just thinking that I wanted my voice to be a healing and unifying force for hope through music to help our deeply polarized country… Regretfully, I did not take into consideration that my performing for the concert would actually instead be taken as a political act against my own personal beliefs and be mistaken for support of Donald Trump and Mike Pence. In light of the information pointed out to me via the Daily Beast article on yesterday, my only choice must now be to stand with the LGBT Community and to state unequivocally that I WILL NOT PERFORM FOR THE WELCOME CONCERT OR FOR ANY OF THE INAUGURATION FESTIVITIES!

http://www.vulture.com/2017/01/jennifer-holliday-cancels-trump-inauguration-gig.html