Carrie Underwood, a former winner of American Idol, is scheduled to give a performance on January 20 during the ceremony that will mark the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term as President of the United States of America from the Republican Party.
At the event, the country singer, who is 41 years old, is anticipated to perform alongside the Armed Forces Choir and the United States Naval Academy Glee Club. She is also anticipated to sing “America the Beautiful.”
“I am humbled to answer the call at a time when we must all come together in the spirit of unity and looking to the future,” she was quoted as saying. “I am looking forward to the future.”
It has been confirmed to The Independent by the Presidential Inaugural Committee that Underwood will be performing at the event. The plan is for her to perform after Vice President JD Vance takes his Oath of Office and before Trump takes the Oath of Office as President of the United States to take office.
The fact that she has been cited as saying to People that she “loves the United States and is “honored” to have been asked to sing at the Inauguration “and to be a little part of this historic event” is something that many people find surprising. This is due to the fact that she has maintained that she does not want to be “pinned politically.”
According to what Underwood was found to have said to The Guardian in 2019, “I try to stay far out of politics, if possible, at least in public, because nobody wins.” “That’s completely insane. Everyone makes an effort to summarize everything and put a good bow on it, as if it were a black and white situation. And it is not comparable to that.”
Additionally, prior to the election in 2024, Underwood did not publicly support any of the candidates’ campaigns.
During the Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala, which took place in New York City in June 2024, Carrie Underwood was there (Joy Malone/Getty Images).()
Despite the fact that the Grammy winner has asserted that she is politically neutral, she has not refrained from expressing her opinions on alleged political topics through songs such as “The Bullet,” which her critics have interpreted as a political message regarding the regulation of firearms.
In the first stanza, she sings, “You can blame it on hate or blame it on guns / But mamas ain’t supposed to bury their sons.” There are two possible explanations for the tragedy. “Left a hole in her heart, and it still ain’t done / The bullet keeps on going,” the song goes.
However, Underwood claimed that the song “was more about the lives that were changed by something terrible happening”.
One thing that does leave some issues unanswered, however, is the fact that her decision to perform at Trump’s Inauguration Day comes around seven years after she and another country artist Brad Paisley made fun of Trump at the 2017 Country Music Association Awards together.
Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood (Rick Diamond/Getty Images)
During the broadcast, the cohosts performed a parody of Underwood’s classic song “Before He Cheats,” replacing the iconic lyric with “before he tweets.”
“Right now, he’s probably in his PJs, reaching for his cellphone… he’s probably asking Siri, ‘How in the world do you spell Pocahontas?’” sang Paisley.
“And it’s fun to watch, yeah, that’s for sure / ’Til little Rocket Man starts a nuclear war,” the duo sang onstage at the CMAs. “Maybe next time, he’ll think before he tweets.”
Following her victory on American Idol in 2005, Underwood became a household name.
