Posted on 01/08/2017 1:17:52 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
President-elect Donald Trump's team decided not to call upon the services of the inauguration announcer who has worked every parade for the past 60 years, according to a local Washington station.
Trump is choosing not to use Charles Brotman, 89, to announce his inaugural parade breaking with decades of tradition that began with Brotman's first inaugural gig for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957.
Brotman told ABC News D.C. affiliate he was heartbroken to learn he wouldn't be announcing what would have been his 12th inaugural parade.
Ive been doing this for 60 years, Brotman told WJLA.
I was destroyed, he added.
Brotman, once known as the voice of the Washington Senators baseball team, said he had already started to prepare for the upcoming inaugural parade before he learned he was not going to have a role. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
If he has been doing this for 60 years, this should be number 15 or 16. Did somebody hold an inauguration and forget to tell him?
Poor old guy, probably has the hots for Hillary.
The Inauguration is going to be a place of high excitement and high anxiety. The anxiety will come from all the Hillary drones trying to hog the cameras and ruin the ceremony. Maybe Trump felt this was no place for (extremely) old men.
Plus, he may have promised that job to somebody else.
I hate when seniors don’t recognize its time to give someone else a turn.
LOL!!
Great movie!
To piss off the scumbag demoncrats, hire V. Putin...
Sheesh. The guy might fall asleep at the first sign of a crowd. Time to let it go dude and enjoy the rest of your life.
I think it’s a shame. They should have let him do it. That’s a tradition I don’t think needed to be blown up. The man is 89 years old, and it may have been his last parade anyway. There are a lot of people who don’t want anything to do with Trump, and this man was excited to announce the parade for him.
SELL BEEKMAN! SELL!!
You said it best, Judy.
Maybe the man has health problems and Trump was concerned about him.
But the media wouldn’t report it that way.
OMG!!! Time for him to retire....after CARTER!!
Bless his heart. Time to retire.
Just for in-your-face kicks, Trump should get Rush’s announcer guy - what’s his name? Johnny Donovan? “And now, Open Line Friday!!!, er, Here comes President Trump!!!”
That would make ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBCNYTIMESWAPO heads explode!!
I hate when seniors don’t recognize its time to give someone else a turn.
Really?
Is that a big problem these days?
I don’t think Trump wants an over the top inauguration, just a simple ceremony, he won’t be walking like he is an elevated demigod, nor will they have to swear him in twice.On a Koran.
There will NOT be a Roman column circus either nor a transvestite black widow in tow.
Get sworn in, make a speech, say thank you to America and off to work, no Woodstock, though i hear protesters plan a weed out.
Government employees: take notice. No job is safe.
89 year old snowflake?
Seems to be with this guy. JMHO
He works a gig only every 4 or 8 years and he’s destroyed?
Who the hell needs an announcer at a parade anyway?
Every newspaper and TV network in the country will be calling Brotman for an interview - - so they can use his words to trash Trump.
"Hello Sir, this is NBC calling for your comments about that mean old Donald Trump... don't hold back - we feel your pain..."
Any excuse that give the press a chance to kick Trump will land a person on the front page and top of a network news in a VERY loving way. This isn't the last we'll hear of Charles Brotman.
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