Lizzo Performed James Madison’s Flute and Left Republicans Livid

Lizzo made historical past this week through the Washington D.C. cease of her “The Particular Tour” when she carried out with a 200-year-old flute as soon as owned by Founding Father and U.S. president James Madison. The flute was gifted to Madison in 1813 and has been maintained by the Library of Congress.

“Bitch, I simply twerked and performed James Madison’s crystal flute from the 1800s,” Lizzo informed concertgoers. “We simply made historical past tonight!”

Lizzo is a classically-trained flutist and solely blew just a few notes out of Madison’s crystal flute, which she was invited to play by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, and but Republicans are up in arms over the temporary efficiency. A number of GOP members took to social media after movies of Lizzo taking part in the flute went viral to accuse her of “desecrating American historical past only for the sake of it,” as right-wing pundit Matt Walsh alleged on Twitter.

“[It sends a] message that our heritage and historical past are meaningless and that nothing we love or care about has any worth,” Walsh added.

The Every day Wire editor Ben Shapiro wrote that “this Lizzo-flute controversy is an ideal instance of what I’ve termed Face Tattoo Phenomenon…the phenomenon whereby somebody does one thing intentionally controversial in an try to attract consideration, after which acts offended whenever you discover.”

As rounded up and reported by Rolling Stone: “The conservative Columbia Bugle called it a ‘humiliation ritual.’ Proper-wing commentator Greg Worth wrote that ‘they’ wish to ‘degrade our historical past after which name you a racist should you truly worth it.’ Trump appointee Darren Beattie described Lizzo because the ‘good consultant of the American Globalist Empire.’ Trump superfan Nick Adams tweeted that the ‘Biden Administration is making a mockery of the nation.’ Former GOP congressional candidate Andrew McCarthy said everybody concerned ‘ought to be deported.’”

“James Madison was a slave proprietor, so in keeping with the Left, shouldn’t Lizzo be cancelled now for ‘making historical past’ taking part in his crystal flute?” requested Jenna Ellis, a former member of Donald Trump’s workforce of election fraud legal professionals.

Lizzo, alternatively, resides her greatest life. The singer shared a twerking video on Twitter a day after the live performance to have a good time the following clothes drop for her Yitty line, and she or he wrote, “A PERFECT FIT… ALL I NEED IS A CRYSTAL FLUTE.”