President Biden on Friday night time will host a live performance by famous person Elton John on the White Home garden — offering the unique venue for the filming of a TV particular.
Biden and first girl Jill Biden will converse on the 8 p.m. live performance placed on by A&E Networks, which is able to then air the particular at an undisclosed future date.
“Tonight, as you all know, we will probably be welcoming Sir Elton John,” White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned at her common press briefing — after journalists heard mic checks from the adjoining driveway.
The Bidens “look ahead to internet hosting him on the White Home for a spectacular efficiency on the South Garden,” Jean-Pierre mentioned.
The “Tiny Dancer” and “Rocket Man” star is broadly regarded throughout the political spectrum and even carried out at Donald Trump’s 2005 marriage ceremony to Melania Trump on the Republican’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
However when Trump gained the 2016 election in a surprising upset, John declined to carry out at his inauguration, saying, “as a British Nationwide I don’t really feel that it’s applicable for me to play on the inauguration of an American President.”
Though he bought the chilly shoulder from John, Trump went on to applicable the title of one in every of his best-known songs to bestow the nickname “Little Rocket Man” upon North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in 2017. After exchanging insults, Trump and Kim met 3 times in a dramatic cooling of tensions.
And Trump famously reacted to the 2020 dying of Supreme Court docket Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg beneath the wing of Air Power One whereas “Tiny Dancer” performed within the background. Her dying allowed Trump to appoint the conservative justice Amy Coney Barrett, permitting for a rightward lurch for the court docket, together with this yr’s elimination of federal abortion rights.
Jean-Pierre mentioned that Biden “will rejoice the huge contributions Sir Elton has made throughout his lifetime as an artist and an advocate and they’re notably thrilled to welcome to the White Home an viewers of round 2,000 followers comprised of lecturers and nurses, frontline employees, psychological well being advocates, college students, LGBTQ+ advocates and so many others.”
The spokeswoman mentioned that “tonight’s efficiency has been organized and in collaboration with and is paid for by the A&E and [its subsidiary] the Historical past [Channel] and can air on tv at a later date.”
A&E is co-owned by Disney and Hearst.
An announcement from the White Home mentioned the occasion is named “A Evening When Hope and Historical past Rhyme.”
The occasion “will rejoice the unifying and therapeutic energy of music, commend the life and work of Sir Elton John, and honor the on a regular basis history-makers within the viewers.”
