Kelly Stafford defends Carrie Underwood for performing at Trump’s inauguration

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Wednesday’s episode, and gave Underwood her due for ignoring the divisive political climate by performing at Donald Trump’s swearing-in earlier this week.“I thought Carrie Underwood was fantastic,” said Winchester. “I don’t like people coming after her for… to me, no matter who I voted for, if a sitting president calls me and says, would you like to come to the White House?

I’m going to the White House.“Put your politics aside,” Winchester added. “A president is a president you honor and respect the office.”After Winchester brought up how Underwood was forced to sing a cappella at the inauguration because of a technical difficulty with the music, Stafford took her turn to praise the country singer.“I love that I didn’t know her stance on politics,” Stafford said. “I mean, I just feel like that’s kind of amazing.

And I think it surprised a lot of people that she was going to perform.”Stafford — who admitted that she missed most of the inauguration because she was flying home from the Rams’ game against the Eagles in Philly — agreed with Winchester that “we have to just respect the power at hand.”“When they’re in there, you can’t change it,” she said, referring to people upset that Trump, 78, is president. “You just gotta pray that they make the right decisions for this country.

You gotta support any way you can, even if you don’t like them. You just gotta do it until the next term and then we’ll bitch again.“But people are in place,” Stafford noted.