The mix of politics during last night's music Grammy Awards in New York led to more messages of disapproval from US President Donald Trump's team.
Last night, host James Corden showed a video in which Cher and Snoop Dogg, John Legend, and former Trump opponent in the presidential race Hillary Clinton read passages from the controversial bestseller "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" (Fire nd Fury: Inside the Trump White House) by journalist Michael Wolff.
In that book, published in early January, Wolff presents the American president as ill-informed, intellectually limited and unstable.
Corden explained that they were hoping for an award for the album with the best spoken words.
The son of the President of the USA, Donald Trump Jr. reacted via Twitter, "reading an excerpt from the book of fake news at the Grammys seems to provide great consolation for the loss of the presidency", in reference to Clinton's defeat in the 2016 presidential election.
According to him, the more Hillary Clinton appears on television, the more the American people realize how "extraordinary" it is that Donald Trump is president.
The US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, did not mention Hillary Clinton, but she resented the fact that politics interfered with music.
"I've always loved the Grammys, but seeing artists read the book 'Fire and Fury' killed it. Don't ruin great music with trash. Some of us love music without politics," Haley tweeted.
At the end of the video, Hillary Clinton reads the part where the president likes to eat hamburgers at McDonald's, with the comment "We've got the Grammys secured."
During the evening, the performers also spoke about illegal immigrants, about the threat of racism and extreme right-wing politics, and referred to Trump's insulting statement in which he called African countries "wolf***s".
"Blessed were the wolf countries because they gave us the American dream," Bono said at the end of U2's performance.
Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar won the main awards at the Grammys last night.
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