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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSOB: Trump drops inauguration announcer who's done them all since Eisenhower
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/08/politics/donald-trump-charles-brotman-inauguration-announcer/index.htmlWashington (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump is breaking from 11 presidents' worth of tradition and benching Charles Brotman.
The 89-year-old Brotman -- once the voice of the Washington Senators baseball team -- has announced every inauguration parade since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957.
He told WJLA he was "heartbroken" and "destroyed" by the decision at first.
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"I've been doing this for 60 years," he told the Washington ABC affiliate.
In his place, the Trump team has tapped Steve Ray, a 58-year-old Washington-based freelance announcer who has worked with the MLB's Washington Nationals and for local radio stations.
"All of us think of Charlie as as much of the Washington landscape as any building," Ray told The Washington Post. "I'm on top of the world. From my point of view, I am not filling his shoes, I'm not taking his place, I just happen to be the guy who's next."
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SOB: Trump drops inauguration announcer who's done them all since Eisenhower (Original Post)
mfcorey1
Jan 2017
OP
"The guy who's next." I know he's trying to be modest but he comes across like an asshole.
TeamPooka
Jan 2017
#10
Rex
(65,616 posts)1. Trump elected president - America heartbroken and destroyed by the decision.
Details at 10.
nolabear
(42,001 posts)2. Every time I think I can't hate that monster more.
He's just calculatedly heartless.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)3. Trump did Brotman a favor.
As time marches on NO ONE will want to have had any association with this creepy creature.
gulliver
(13,198 posts)9. This
badhair77
(4,226 posts)4. His replacement is thrilled about it.
He should be embarrassed to be a part of shoving a legend aside. Of course no one on his team knows what shame is.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)5. It will be announced in Russian, and
we will be provided a simultaneous translation into English. Gratis Putin.
pansypoo53219
(21,005 posts)6. assholes be assholes.
but then. he does not have to do twitler.
Bengus81
(6,936 posts)7. He was heartbroken and destroyed "at first"
The he said wait....why announce the goings on for this HATE monger POS?? Thanks Cheeto,you did me a solid!
redwitch
(14,952 posts)8. This is so sad!
As if we needed more reasons to loathe the SOB.
TeamPooka
(24,286 posts)10. "The guy who's next." I know he's trying to be modest but he comes across like an asshole.