Carrie Underwood will sing “America the Stunning” on the inauguration ceremony for president-elect Donald J. Trump, a Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee spokesperson confirmed to information retailers Monday.

Axios was first to report the information that the nation celebrity will participate within the inaugural festivities, which happen in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, a date that coincidentally coincides with the Martin Luther King Jr. Day vacation. The transition committee has since additional confirmed the information with Fox Digital Media.

Underwood will probably be accompanied in her rendition of the usual by the Armed Forces Refrain and america Naval Academy Glee Membership.

Underwood reps didn’t instantly reply to requests for affirmation or remark.

Underwood is a a lot higher-profile star than an incoming Trump administration was capable of procure for his 2017 inauguration, at a time when he was being extra shunned by leisure big-wigs and main media firms than he appears to be in 2024. On the 2017 swearing-in, “America’s Received Expertise” runner-up Jackie Evancho was the most important title on board.

A program for the inaugural occasion being extensively circulated — however formally unconfirmed as of but — exhibits Underwood singing proper earlier than Trump is sworn in. Christopher D. Machio can also be listed on that picture as performing an unnamed “musical choice” earlier than JD Vance is sworn in as vice chairman.

Information of Underwood performing instantly lit a firestorm on social media, with conservatives applauding her willingness to carry out on the ceremony and a few Democratic followers taking a extra dim view — and the Each day Beast greeted studies with the headline: “Carrie Underwood Comes Out as MAGA With Trump Inauguration Gig.”

However regardless of the inaugural look might signify to others, Underwood is prone to uphold the publicly apolitical standing she has at all times maintained prior to now. Social media customers did take observe through the pandemic in 2021 when her account appeared to “like” a Matt Walsh tweet opposing masks mandates in faculties. (“Like anybody else, I’m upset and disturbed that Carrie Underwood appreciated one among my tweets,” Walsh stated in a sarcastic tweet on the time. “I demand that she surrender me and apologize.”) That second apart, she has stored her views on politics and nearly all hot-button points non-public.

“I really feel like extra individuals attempt to pin me locations politically,” she stated in a 2019 interview with the Guardian. “I attempt to keep far out of politics if attainable, at the least in public, as a result of no person wins. It’s loopy. All people tries to sum all the things up and put a bow on it, prefer it’s black and white. And it’s not like that.”