Michael Rapaport: Trump Inauguration Performers ‘Should Be Ashamed’ (Exclusive)
“He’s not gonna get any real talent to perform”
Brian Flood | December 14, 2016 @ 1:53 PM
Last Updated: December 15, 2016 @ 10:46 AM
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Donald Trump’s team isn’t having the easiest time booking A-list talent for his inauguration — and Trump critic Michael Rapaport says anybody who takes the job “should be ashamed of themselves.”
“I wouldn’t do it for money,” Rapaport told TheWrap. “Trump has no flavor. His supporters have no flavor.”
He listed acts who could be up for the job: “Reuniting the cast of ‘Hee Haw’ would be a sufficient performance. The KKK Barber Shop Quartet maybe?”
The host of the Play.it’s “I Am Rappaport: Stereo Podcast” also had another idea: “He should skip [the] party and get to work.”
Rapaport said Trump may end up taking that advice not because he wants to, but “solely because he’s not gonna get any real talent to perform.”
TheWrap reported Wednesday that Trump’s team offered ambassadorships to at least two talent bookers if they could deliver A-list singers. The bookers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they were approached by members of Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Committee in recent weeks with offers of cash or even plush diplomatic posts in exchange for locking in singers.
“Doesn’t Antonio Sabbato Jr. sing? Get him,” Rapaport said. Sabato spoke at the Republican National Convention over the summer.
Rapaport has been outspoken against Trump and recently rejected the phrase “alt-right,” saying members of the movement could more accurately be described as “racist pricks,” “Nazi c–suckers” and “scumbags.”
When asked about the alt-right, Trump told the New York Times, “I disavow the group,” but it hasn’t helped him land any A-list stars for his Jan. 20 inaugural events.
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Donald Trump won't take office until Jan. 20, but gambling site Bovada is already thinking about the next election. Here are its top candidates to win the presidency in 2020, ranked from worst odds to best.
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The Democratic senator-elect from Nevada will be the first Latina senator. Like Harris, she will only have had four years of Senate experience in 2020.
The outgoing vice president considered running against Hillary Clinton in 2016 but decided not to after the 2015 death of his son Beau. Biden is popular, particularly with working-class voters whom Trump lured from the Democrats. He'll be 77 in 2o20, which would make him the oldest person to win the presidency, if he won.
After coming losing the Democratic nomination in 2008 to Obama and coming so close in 2016, does the former secretary of state have it in her to try again? She'll turn 73 in 2020, but Trump is eight months older.
The New Jersey senator is a talented campaigner and speaker and one of the most prominent African-American Democrats. The New Jersey senator is also popular among his peers.
The Massachusetts senator could pick up supporters of the Sanders movement. She has feuded with Trump, but also expressed a willingness to work with him on certain issues.
The House Speaker is a star among traditional conservatives, but it will take a TV drama worth of surprises for him to somehow replace Trump as the presidential nominee, but that's true of every other Republican on this list, too.
Gambling site Bovada is already thinking about the next election
Donald Trump won't take office until Jan. 20, but gambling site Bovada is already thinking about the next election. Here are its top candidates to win the presidency in 2020, ranked from worst odds to best.