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The intermezo measure for nan opening of nan Obama Presidential Center connected Thursday included U2’s Bono, Bruce Springsteen, John Legend and Jennifer Hudson, who sang nan National Anthem.
In nan crowd, though, was much a reminder of conscionable really overmuch Hollywood embraced President Barack Obama and his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama: Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks, David Letterman, Stephen Colbert and Conan O’Brien.
“A-listers each complete nan place,” said Sara Sidner, connected nan segment for CNN.
During his 8 years, Obama enlisted galore of nan entertainers for White House concerts and run appearances, but nan sheer turnout besides offered an implicit opposition to nan existent president, Donald Trump, who has turned to nan caller UFC arena and state euphony figures for his taste agenda, successful summation to a takeover of nan Kennedy Center. A lineup of artists who were to execute astatine a National Mall performance bid adjacent week mostly dropped retired complete concerns that nan arena would beryllium partisan; Trump has alternatively scheduled a rally pinch Lee Greenwood among nan performers.
While George and Laura Bush, Joe and Jill Biden and Bill and Hillary Clinton were coming for nan ceremony, Trump was not invited.
Although his sanction was not mentioned, passim nan ceremony, location were evident efforts to overgarment a contrast.
“No 1 has a correct to beryllium successful judgement of who is American enough,” Michelle Obama said.
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