'God Bless the USA' singer Lee Greenwood says it's a 'privilege' to perform his hit song for Trump

Singer Lee Greenwood’s opus "God Bless the USA" was played earlier astir each 1 of President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 run rallies arsenic helium sought to instrumentality to the White House. 

Now, a time before Trump is inaugurated arsenic the 47th President of the United States, Greenwood is acceptable to execute the deed opus erstwhile again astatine a "Make America Great Again Victory Rally" astatine the Capital One Arena successful Washington, D.C. 

"What a privilege," said Greenwood Sunday connected "America Reports." "Here we are wrong the Capital Arena. We stepped retired of the snow. It's bully and adust successful here. And there's an electrical excitement wrong this arena."

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Supporters stitchery extracurricular Capital One Arena, up of a rally for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump the time earlier helium is scheduled to beryllium inaugurated for a 2nd term, successful Washington, U.S., January 19, 2025.  (REUTERS/Marko Djurica)

The 82-year-old, who is besides acceptable to perform astatine Trump’s 2nd inauguration, reflected connected his euphony vocation and however helium gained Trump’s attraction with the patriotic tune. 

"I've been a state creator for 40 years with 11 number-one songs. I'm established successful Nashville, Tennessee. I'm not primitively from Tennessee. I'm from California. After traveling the state for 40 years, it's absorbing that the relation with the President of the United States expands the people's cognition of who you are and what your vocation is," Greenwood told co-anchors John Roberts and Sandra Smith.

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"There's a enactment successful my opus that ‘I gladly basal up adjacent to you and support her inactive today.’ I had nary idea when I wrote that song and that enactment I would really beryllium lasting adjacent to the President of the United States."

Trump is pictured successful beforehand of the US Capitol Building, surrounded by fencing successful Washington, D.C., connected Friday, January 17, 2025.  (Fox News Digital/Trump-Vance Transition Team)

He said that nary substance however galore times helium sings the song, helium tries to sing it otherwise in each environment, adding, "Sometimes, conscionable sitting astatine the soft successful a small, intimate show oregon successful an arena similar this, there's going to person to beryllium much of a projection."

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Billy Ray Cyrus, Kid Rock and the Village People, who are known for their deed opus "YMCA," are besides acceptable to execute astatine the Capital One Arena.