OMG anyone of you watching the Inaugural Concert..

[busterbrown]

Embarrassing! Trump currently bouncing around to a u.s. military band.While his wife absolutely staring straight ahead..Weather is not cooperating..Ice coldl... Now Toby Keith.. The lack of excitement is stunning...Trump acting like he’s really digging the music.listening to Keith sing American Soldier..Very few overall crowd shots.. Melania still looking straight ahead

Stage set up is just awful. Absolutely not inspiring.

Had an awful kind of stunt drummer before those I just mentioned... Played to a full recording to someone else not on stage... Man alive.. just crap! Trump and family booth? all looked like they can’t wait to get out...This is Keith’s 4th song... They all fucking sound alike. He’s holding up a beer in a red Cup! Classy..

Can’t figure out crowd size.. I think its because they want it that way


So this is turning out exactly how I thought it would.

Entertainment is now over.. Jesus Christ! Keith was the highlight?
Trump now speaking...” Tomorrow will be so tremendous” He’s winging it now again, sounding like an idiot..”We’re gonna do something special” This is real sad!

Thankfully I’m out
Buster

[emulatorloo]

1. Sad!

[Dustlawyer]

109. What do you expect for $100,000,000.00?

[putitinD]

2. I bet Vladimir Putin is laughing his ass off.

[Brother Buzz]

43. I bet Vladimir Putin is going to parachute in and proclaim....

"All your base are belong to us"

[chowder66]

63. lol! nt

[Quayblue]

66. ...

[C Moon]

84. :D

[narnian60]

3. Toby Keith was introduced as

one of the most popular entertainers of all time.

[rainbow4321]

4. And now he is doing his post 9/11 song

You know...the one that says we are gonna kick everyone's ass.


And, yes...Trump and his family are stone still..Lincoln has moved more than them...

[narnian60]

9. Hahahaha.

[meadowlark5]

5. Melania is probably thinking "shit, I'm trapped, stuck for at least 4 more years"

Probably would have left him had he lost. Gotten away from the loud mouthed, pervert. But now, she's stuck.

[rainbow4321]

11. Nah...she will red eye back to NYC after they "dance" at one ball

She's probably thrilled for the long distance "relationship".

[busterbrown]

16. Man it looks exactly as how you are describing..

[Raster]

87. Well honey, you have to dance with those that bought you...

...I mean, BROUGHT you. Yeah, that's what I meant.

[keithbvadu2]

97. Are you talking Donald/Melania or Vlad/Donald?

[lastlib]

107. Yes.

[Raster]

117. Nice answer. I concur.

[Warpy]

6. Thank you for checking in so we don't have to

I have to feel a bit sorry for Melania, I doubt she asked for any of this crap. Her nitwit of a husband is in his element, thinking he's the center of attention for the whole country. Sigh.

[Afromania]

12. Yea she did

Trump has been a frigging suck face forever. When she married him she had to know what kind of creep he was. If she didn't it had to be apparent long before now.

[Warpy]

15. He's also getting on, so being a trophy wife is a pretty good gig

ordinarily, just smile at his guests and laugh at his jokes. Even if he buys Viagra by the case, he's likely bored with her and chasing females a quarter his age who are willing to audition to be #4.

Yeah, everything would have been beautiful had he not gone into politics. Now she is extremely uncomfortable and I do feel sorry for her.

[Afromania]

21. I hear ya on that account

but at the same time maybe if she did something other than being a trophy wife to a repugnant pos.

[Purrfessor]

75. Some people say Melania has been paying...

for Russian prostitutes to wear Trump out before he gets home. Now I don't know if this is true but some people say it is.

[underpants]

28. Melania has had a stone cold blank stare on her face all day

I stopped watching when Trump was at Arlington cemetery.

BTW I'm not making assumption on her being medicated.

[Warpy]

35. she's had plastic surgery and undoubtedly supplements it with Botox and heavy contouring

She used to be quite pretty.

[tclambert]

110. All I can see any more when I look at her is that her right eye is crooked.

I know it's a tiny little detail to fixate on, but whenever I look at her, I just see that one eye.

[meadowlark5]

37. I think we need to remember that when she married him, he wasn't like this

You all have seen interviews of Trump prior to his birther crap. He said Hillary would make an excellent president, he was pro-choice, he said universal healthcare was a good idea. He wasn't a climate change denier. He was still a womanizing pervert, but he wasn't bat shit crazy like he is now. And if the rumors of him calling Barron retarded are true, could you imagine being married to someone that thought that way of your child? She's a mom and there is a fierceness in a mother's love.

He is probably a lot different than when she met him and married him. Now she's stuck for 4 more years.

[alarimer]

49. Why can't she divorce him just because he's President?

I mean, I know his minions would try to persuade or threaten her if she tried that, but I think it would be great.

[meadowlark5]

52. She could

I don't think there is anything preventing her from doing it. But I'm sure the mob family would strongly urge her not to. And, for her embarrassing him like that, what would be her punishment? Sure, she might get some financial support but probably not like she would if she were to wait. That clan in the white house is cut throat, and she probably knows it and needs to think about her survival and her son's.

[marlakay]

78. I bet that top lady divorce lawyer

That all the stars and Angela go to would take her case.

[NBachers]

83. Does she still have family back home? That's always an "encouragement point."

[bdamomma]

71. Then him and Pootie

can pal around together. tRump would like that.

[moonscape]

95. He was always vapid, always a liar, always grandiose. I lived in

Manhattan through the 70's - he was always a lying attention-hog.

Maybe age magnified these traits, but he was always a weasel.

[tblue37]

114. We don't know that it was Barron he was referring to. I think it is more likely that he

used the slur against Don Jr. for doing or saying something Cheato didn't like. Of course, the word itself is taboo, like the n-word, so he should not have used it at all about anyone.

Needless to say, Caribou Barbie won't go ballistic over the use of the word by one of her pals, though she does whenever a Democrat sys something she can pretend is an attack on people with developmental issues.

[csziggy]

121. Hah! Gary Trudeau had Trump nailed as a whack job in the 1980s

My husband gave me a copy of Trudeau's book "YUGE!" that is a compilation of his cartoons about Trump. The fourth one in the book has Trump floating a trial balloon about running for president: http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1987/09/17

He was nuts then and he's nuts now.

[meadowlark5]

122. I think he's nuttier

I never liked him and thought he was an arrogant, egotistical prick. But he used to at least try to seem rational.

He's been radicalized. You saw it happening little by little over the campaign. I have to say when all 17 walked up on that stage for their primary - Trump was the one who worried me least. I figured he was a non-religious, businessman. Not qualified to be president, but not Rick Santorum or Mike Huckabee. But those that he was around and advising him radicalized him and now he's flat out insane. Drunk on power and now an alt-right nut.

[WinkyDink]

92. She knows that her expressions will be pored over, and so she's denying us the fun!

[SticksnStones]

7. Had to turn it off...

Watched for awhile. Kept thinking if Hillary had won we'd be bouncing to Beyoncé by now.

[Afromania]

8. #NO Talent, #NO ENERGY, #SAD, #Notanybodiespresidentapparently

I turned it on for just a second, nobody there and zero enthusiasm from that crowd. You can be assure that heir Twittler will be telling us about record breaking crowds tonight. This must be biting at his ass so hard, I fully expect Nuclear Armageddon by Sunday.

[Abq_Sarah]

50. No talent?

I thought Sam Moore's rendition of America The Beautiful kicked ass.

I'm not a big country fan and I don't follow who is who so I didn't pay much attention to a lot of the concert. Personally, I'd rather hear the military bands.

I'm not going to play the "I hate anyone who performed at the inauguration" game. It doesn't improve my life or make me a better person.

[Afromania]

55. Sarcastic Humor

I'm not hating on them, it was riff on how Trump would have gone about it on Twitter.

[SalviaBlue]

82. You have to admit the entertainment for Obama was the cream of the crop.

Don the Con is hated and it shows in the entertainment willing to play for him.

[narnian60]

125. +1

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. See the pics from CNN comparing crowd to 2009, it is so funny, NOBODY there for this

one and TOO many for Obama

Oh my, that little motherfucker deserves it.

[democrank]

13. Im so glad Im resisting.

Watching Comrade Trump "digging the music" is something my eyes absolutely could not abide.

[lindysalsagal]

18. Dirty Dancing a far better choice.

I'm off tv news until saturday.

[catbyte]

14. "Red Solo Cup" the song is Toby Keith's only claim to fame. Embarrassing.

[busterbrown]

17. I had no idea what that was..

I thought that was what we did when we had a cover band at bars in the early 70s.

[catbyte]

19. That's probably where he got the idea for that lame ass song. How classy.

Or as my late, beloved mom would say when she saw something particularly tacky, "That's classy with a Capital K!" I'm still not sure what she meant, but it seems appropriate now.

[renate]

120. your mom sounds like a hoot and a holler!

That's wonderful!

[catbyte]

127. Oh, that she was! I so miss it...and her.

[world wide wally]

67. As someone who frequented bars with cover bands in the 70's, I take exception to that

Some of those cover band were pretty good. At least the songs were better.

[busterbrown]

70. Yea they were...

I should have said that I was in a band which covered a lot of late 60s 70s groups..,,

But on avery small level.. We had a great guitar player, but never made it outside of the bars we played at.. Back then everyone was drinking beer on stage...and we all had plastic cups.. Sometimes Red, like keith’s.... He isn’t very good. is he? Just nothing new or different.. His songs sound all alike.

[catbyte]

128. I stand corrected!

[Rorey]

20. Oops, I forgot I had tickets

I accepted the orange turd's invitation to get tickets on twitter. A reply to my "throwaway" email account said I would be emailed commemorative tickets. I was hoping a lot would do the same and of course not show up.

[busterbrown]

29. Please post a pic if you can

With your story, You could bring them to Antique Roadshow..
Maybe you could go on and state for the first time Roadshow History: “i’ll pay you to take them”

that would be hysterical.

[notdarkyet]

80. I wish I had some. I think they should be burnt like draft cards were.

[demmiblue]

22. The view of them standing in the Lincoln Memorial is puke-worthy.

P.S. Feck off Lindsay and Greta.

Grace and poise my arse. Time to hit mute.


* I wish I hadn't looked for the MSNBC live stream. Like a moth to the flame, I suppose

[underpants]

23. Did Trump actually sing with Lee Greenwood?

I read that on a local live feed on FB.

[nolabear]

25. No. He sang along in his seat.

[underpants]

32. Okay thanks.

[nolabear]

24. Where's Barron? Much younger grandchildren are there.

You know and I know.

[kskiska]

57. I doubt we'll see much of Barron from here on out

since Melania threatened to sue the guy who made the video. They'll say he's in school or wherever. I doubt Melania or Barron will ever actually live in the White House.

[nolabear]

68. For his sake I'll support him staying out of it.

If he DOES have a disability it would be a fine thing to acknowledge and to advocate for pride in and help for others. But hey, that's a personal choice.

[revmclaren]

26. I will not give the propaganda outlets broadcasting this tripe the tiny ratings boost

that my tuning in to that train wreck would provide. Tomorrow, I will be putting in online job applications while listening to the expected rain falling outside my office while drinking lots of hot tea, and listening to the Science Channel or BBC America tuned in as background noise to pull ratings away from the illegitimate inauguration.

I will check in here every so often to keep up to date on Donny T's Carnival of Ineptitude.

[kydo]

59. Well Epix2 is showing Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Awesome movie. Better music too. Like when they sing that Brittany Spears song to the zombie. Much better concert performance then that thing the m$M sellouts are showing.

[revmclaren]

69. That would be too entertaining and too close to Donny T's actual event

at the same time. I need to concentrate on my office stuff.

Maybe Comedy Central too.

[ginnyinWI]

27. just curious--what network is showing this?

I don't get cable anymore.

[True Dough]

30. CNN is showing it in full

Not sure about other networks.

[busterbrown]

36. MSNBC...

This imho? was just terrible....Why because a Trump event w/o violence, threats or crazies in the audience is just not a trump event!

[tclambert]

111. NBC will cover it at 11:30 pm Saturday.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. Seriously? No way.

Just apart from the fact that it's obvious everything about it sucks hard enough to bend light, I promised myself and whatever Force may or may not rule the universe that I will not allow a single electron emanating from that crapfest to enter my teevee.

[busterbrown]

40. I said Id do exactly the same thing..

But it was just so freaking bad for the 15 seconds I had it on.?

I decided that this was far worst than I expected.. This is gonna be fun!

[mercuryblues]

33. No

I will not give that fucking piece lizard shit any viewing time. My tv will be off

[Atman]

34. They said "Give him a chance." I tried.

This was the pathetic piece of shit I've ever seen.

[Maru Kitteh]

118. Did you?

I sure as hell didn't. And I won't. He's spent the last 6 years showing us exactly who he is.

[demtenjeep]

38. not watching a damn thing about it

just thinking about it makes me want to slit my wrists

[busterbrown]

45. Ill say it again.

I wasn’t even gonna be near my T.V.. My wife took the car.. I got bored.. Channel surfed...

for some reason held the station it was on msnbc looked at it and immediately determined that it stunk so badly..that it was gonna be fun for awhile..

[BumRushDaShow]

39. Mashable has a short video of them

https://twitter.com/mashable/status/822207207391502344

[sheshe2]

56. Are they at a wake????

[progressoid]

119. WTF? Are they in a glass box?

[BumRushDaShow]

123. They build viewing stands

for the inaugurations.





Not sure if that is where they were sitting (they may have built something similar near the performance) but they are mostly enclosed.

[dawnie51]

41. I seriously love you guys.....

and your comments. I cannot and will not watch a flicker of this mess, but it's gratifying to know its as big a crap fest as I'd hoped!

[Justice]

42. Really no comparison

[link:https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/822205351743422466|


- Trump concert.


- Obama concert - I was there - packed.

But he still has all the power even though he has no love from the people - that is the part we have to grapple with. I don't want to focus on attendance on concerts, would like to focus on how to defeat the changes he wants to bring to US.

[AJT]

90. He is going to be so pissed

that barely anyone showed up and he will punish the whole country for embarrassing him, the vindictive ass.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

93. Love it

[Missn-Hitch]

44. I fell out of my chair. Tobias: "There are dozens of us. Dozens!!" Hilarious.

[smirkymonkey]

46. Hey Trump! How does it feel to be the world's biggest looooser!

You can steal an election, but that will never hide the fact that you are miserable, rotten piece of shit and a worldwide joke!

[LenaBaby61]

47. You have a stronger stomach than I do busterbrown...

I refuse to watch a minute of tRumputin's illegitimate inaugural. I don't care about the racist, birther pig, nor do I care about his tRamp of a birther wife either.

I'm watching AO Open tennis instead. Something I really enjoy watching

[Greybnk48]

48. I'm not watching a second of this shit.

I find it repulsive. I don't for one minute believe Scott Pelley CBS who just said they're expecting a million people to come and celebrate tomorrow. A million? Really?

[3catwoman3]

76. That might be what they are...

...expecting, but it doesn't sound like what they are going to get. Too bad, so sad.

[femmocrat]

51. Found on Twitter: rofl

Jimmy KimmelVerified account
‏@jimmykimmel

3 Doors Down is where Melania sleeps

[busterbrown]

61. Funny! n/t

[stonecutter357]

53. nope watching twitch.

the happy Hob no hit Dark souls 3.https://www.twitch.tv/the_happy_hob

[VOX]

54. If I watched any of this shit, I'd get physically ill.

I'm not going near it, any more than I'd repeatedly butt my head against a concrete blockhouse. I'd just get increasingly angry, and release all kinds of stress hormones into my system. Gotta protect oneself, it's gonna be a long haul.

[Stellar]

58. Let's see...Blotus doesn't like soldiers that were captured and he definitely does not like...

..their gold star parents if the soldier dies in war.

[procon]

60. The Russian Cossack Dance Troop is still on for tomorrow, right? nt

[busterbrown]

62. Right after Wayne Newton.. n/y

[underpants]

64. This clustertrump tonight would have been a great opportunity to fill up the FEMA camps

[mfcorey1]

65. Keith did give shoutout to Obama

[Calista241]

72. The military choir was pretty amazing singing The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

shame its for such a douchebag like Trump.

[OldRedneck]

73. Not watching

I'm sorting my sock drawer.

[doc03]

74. I saw to yaahoos at the gun store heading for DC this morning with their

Drain the Swamp T-shirts and Make Merika Great Again hats. They were looking for ponchos someone ask them if they were going to the inauguration and they both did their thumbs up sign, that's something the assholes do.

[Dawson Leery]

77. Will he be riding in a Russian tank in tomorrow's parade?

[jmowreader]

112. He'd have to ride ON a Russian tank

Russian tanks have very small hatches. If Trump tried to get in one, he'd get caught between the blubber and the micropenis and have to be pulled out by a Chinook helicopter.

[onecaliberal]

79. No chance in hell.

[busterbrown]

81. Talking about watching it?

Turned it on for a second? Stunk so bad, that I knew I would enjoy it....

[onecaliberal]

85. I will take your word for it. I'm glad it's shit but one could expect it would be.

[kairos12]

86. Triumph of the Swill.

[NBachers]

88. WAIT, WAIT - You didn't say anything about the Wall of Meat! Tell me all about the Wall of Meat!

[jmowreader]

124. I don't think it's in favor of Trump either

[TrekLuver]

89. This "man" and his crew are a COMPLETE EMBARRASSMENT to this Great Country.

[underthematrix]

91. No I'm not watching any news because

I knw the networks are obliged to carry the coup ceremony

[underthematrix]

94. I'm watching this

OMG! I love this

[democrank]

102. underthematrix.....thanks, that was fantastic!

I'll miss President Obama and his wonderful family.

[underthematrix]

104. You're welcome.

And yes I will miss them too.

[tiredtoo]

96. Not watching anything to do with the installation of Putins puppet

and his third wife.

[ailsagirl]

99. Same here, tiredtoo, same here

[ailsagirl]

98. Who's Toby Keith??

[elmac]

100. I'm not watching TV for a few days

not like I ever watch it anyway. Watching old youtube docs from the 60's & 70's on my Roku.

[Trust Buster]

101. Very disappointing to see so many DU members watching that fraudulent coronation.

[Skittles]

103. agreed

[Thekaspervote]

105. PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT WATCH

Do you want the ratings for this terrible event to be good?

STOP WATCHING!

[DownriverDem]

106. My 4 year plan

I will not watch Trump et al or listen to Trump et al. I will only read about him and how the repubs are sticking it to us on my favorite sites like DU. So thanks for filling me in.

[Initech]

108. Toby Keith and Lee Greenwood? Sad. Boring. Opposite of tremendous.

See, Hillary could have got the actual Bruce Springsteen. Or just about any number of liberal musicians. Who are actually you know, entertaining. And would be amazing to watch. Instead this is a fucking embarrassment.

[jmowreader]

113. Hang on for a second here...

You mean Toby Keith actually played "Red Solo Cup" at the inaugural? How gauche!

[onenote]

115. Didn't watch. But i've been outside and its not that cold (low 40s).

My sense is that the crowd isn't that big.

[Denzil_DC]

116. An undoctored but screwed-up wobbly-sound live feed:

Fast forward to around 7 minutes for the band music (the first part is some unfathomable military drill).

Direct timed link if anyone wants to share (DU doesn't do timed YouTube links):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=407&v=45cB78xN_f0

One conclusion I'm coming to from what little I saw tonight: the PEEOTUS lacks natural rhythm.