Trump inauguration performer Lee Greenwood defends Carrie Underwood against critics

After Carrie Underwood received mixed reactions for agreeing to execute astatine President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration connected Monday, Lee Greenwood is coming to the state star's defense. 

"Carrie Underwood is simply a large artist," the "God Bless the USA" vocalist told Fox News Digital connected Friday. "A large singer. I've sang with her before. She volition bash a large occupation singing astatine the Capitol with ‘America the Beautiful.’"

"I'll sing earlier the President takes his oath," helium added. "She volition sing after. And conscionable the infinitesimal volition beryllium magic. For those radical who person thing antagonistic to say, I accidental support it to yourself. Don't onslaught a person of excavation who is present for the aforesaid crushed arsenic I americium to inaugurate the 47th President of the United States."

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Lee Greenwood came to Carrie Underwood's defence aft the state prima was criticized by immoderate for choosing to execute astatine President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration connected Monday.  (Getty Images)

Underwood, who has mostly stayed distant from voicing her governmental beliefs, confirmed her information earlier this week. 

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Underwood said she is "honored" to person been asked to execute astatine the inauguration.  (Paras Griffin/Getty Images for ABA)

"I emotion our state and americium honored to person been asked to sing astatine the inauguration and to beryllium a tiny portion of this historical event," Underwood, who volition beryllium joined by the Armed Forces Choir and the United States Naval Academy Glee Club, said successful a statement. "I americium humbled to reply the telephone astatine a clip erstwhile we indispensable each travel unneurotic successful the tone of unity and looking to the future."

While immoderate criticized her, others were speedy to connection their support. 

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During an occurrence of the "Amy & T.J." podcast past week, T.J. Holmes said, "You amended judge a batch of her fans and a batch of radical are divided connected her information — you tin spell look up her effect if you'd similar — but she's performing. Hey, it's the damn ... it's an inauguration. It's an American event, it's a patriotic lawsuit successful a batch of ways, and it's conscionable a beauteous lawsuit that happens each 4 years successful this country. To enactment successful it, who wouldn't accidental yes to that? Does it substance who the president is? Can you not enactment due to the fact that radical person an contented with authorities oregon the policies oregon the person?"

Underwood received mixed reactions astir her upcoming show astatine Donald Trump's swearing-in ceremony.  (Chris Polk)

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"Yeah, I deliberation that Carrie Underwood made the determination that was close for her, and she has a beauteous voice, and I can't hold to perceive it," Amy Robach added. 

As for Greenwood — who has performed a fistful of times for Trump-related events, including the 2017 inauguration and the 2024 Republican National Convention — the vocalist said it is simply a "great privilege" to beryllium hitting the signifier again astatine specified a humanities event. 

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"To beryllium included successful this, I mean, there's thousands and thousands of radical who had loved to beryllium present successful Washington, D.C., to ticker this live. And determination volition beryllium a bunch. But to beryllium connected signifier with him, it's conscionable a large privilege."

Greenwood volition execute his ballad "God Bless successful the USA" connected Jan. 20.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Greenwood said he's looking guardant to what the adjacent 4 years volition bring. 

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"To my President, Donald Trump, we person assurance successful you that the adjacent 4 years, arsenic I spoke to you astatine Mar-a-Lago, you are a peacemaker," helium told Fox News Digital. "You're going to alteration the mode the satellite thinks astir America. We are each connected committee astir MAGA and Making America Great Again. From my father's clip successful the Navy, successful the Merchant Marine during World War Two and my wife's father's tenure successful the Army, we cognize that you respect the military, and you usage it wisely. Just convey you for each that you volition bash for each the remainder of us. The citizens of America basal with you."

Trump's statesmanlike inauguration events volition diagnostic performances by Underwood the Village People and Greenwood.

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