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applegrove

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Wed Dec 14, 2016, 05:49 PM Dec 2016

Trumps Team Reportedly Offered Ambassadorships to Talent Bookers in Exchange for Inauguration Singe

By Anna Silman at the Cut, NY Magazine

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/12/trumps-team-offered-ambassadorships-for-inauguration-talent.html?mid=facebook_nymag

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Despite having Kanye West in his corner, Donald Trump is still having difficulty finding musicians to play at his inauguration. According to two talent bookers who spoke anonymously to the Wrap, Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Committee offered to reward them with ambassador positions if they could procure top singers to perform.

One talent manager described being offered “access to the administration” if he could lure major talent. “They said they were in the process of ‘figuring out posts, ambassadorships, and commissions’ if that was of any interest,” he said.

Another source also described receiving a “serious” ambassadorship offer, and that he was so shocked at the proposal that he almost dropped the phone. “Never in a million years have I heard something so crazy,” he said. Both declined the offers.

Trump’s team denied the allegations. “There is no truth to this insinuation,” said committee spokesperson Boris Epshteyn. “First-class entertainers are eager to participate in the inaugural events. The inauguration as a whole will be an exciting and uniting celebration of freedom and democracy. We will be releasing further details at the appropriate time.”



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Trumps Team Reportedly Offered Ambassadorships to Talent Bookers in Exchange for Inauguration Singe (Original Post) applegrove Dec 2016 OP
Boris Epshteyn? Who is he, Donalds "minder?" n/t rzemanfl Dec 2016 #1
the reports about trumps's trials getting talent to his inauguration barbtries Dec 2016 #2
not The Onion....and not Borowitz.... dhill926 Dec 2016 #3
Of course he did. zonkers Dec 2016 #4

barbtries

(28,769 posts)
2. the reports about trumps's trials getting talent to his inauguration
Wed Dec 14, 2016, 05:52 PM
Dec 2016

have been the bright spot in my life lately. it makes me smile and it makes me laugh.

and it probably makes him even more determined to be the worst most catastrophic president this world has ever seen. cause he'll show them.

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