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. . .
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There’s a new kid in town. Brotman can enjoy the event, historic step to making American great again after the epic failure of Obama. Brotman’s been around enough he should appreciate and welcome the need for change. If not, good riddance to him. Besides, why was he the only one doing it for so many years? What sweetheart deal did he have? Drain the swamp is already underway!
Absolutely. They serve at the pleasure of the president. Get rid of all of them. Time from some new blood. And make a point of no Harvard or Yale or other Ivy League schools.
Bring in the young guns, Larry King.
Has anyone said : “you’re fired?”
A “Greatest Generation” Snowflake? I guess they can and do exist.
It’s time for the geezer to realize he needed to pass the torch 20 years ago. How selfish of him. That, and he’s a “GD Democrat” ( LBJ reference).
He should have Vince Sculley do it.
The inauguration isnt about you, buddy (the announcer, not the poster).
Democrat self-centered snowflake.
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Smash up more of it...!
He’s 89? Maybe it is time to retire?
Another example of the mainstream media not even fact checking their own articles. They are so quick to get a hit piece out on Trump, no matter how mundane. Next we'll be hearing about some blind White House gardener being made to retire.
If he was “destroyed”, why is he still alive. The LIB loser is the World’s Oldest Snowflake.
At his age was/is his voice okay to announce anymore?
Good grief. At 89, one should know the run is OVER. No one is entitled to a perpetual job after 75, not even the pope.
Several points...
1. I tend to agree about going with tradition. Maybe there is more to the story, though.
2. I would put no age limits on this. If the man is capable and willing, I don’t see what his age has to do with it. True for any job.
3. I didn’t even know there was an “inaugural parade announcer”. Would anyone even notice if this person was not on the job?
4. I wouldn’t recommend going into that line of work. From what I hear, there are not a lot of job openings, the work is seasonal, and there is not much opportunity for advancement.
Much ado about nothing.
A network or local broadcast will probably ‘hire’ him for the broadcast, as an affront to PE Trump.
He still hasn’t got over being rejected by Eleanor Roosevelt.
He was probably waiting for Trump to ask him in order to tell him to go to hell.
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