On Wednesday, musician John Legend was one of the featured artists at President Joe Biden’s Celebrating America inauguration event.
Legend played a grand piano by the Lincoln Memorial and sang “Feeling Good,” which is most popularly known for the rendition by Nina Simone. To do this, he had to travel from California to D.C., and he brought his wife and two kids with him.
Since his wife is Chrissy Teigen, the public was informed of every step of their journey.
Teigen started tweeting about how excited she was to attend the inauguration and the pleasures of packing to go on a trip.
Since we are still technically in the middle of a pandemic, going on trips is generally frowned upon, even if everyone seems to be secretly and not-so-secretly doing it:
My baby got his first fat lip pushing his car down the driveway 😩😩😩 still happy packing for inauguration though! pic.twitter.com/o6jqHGGHFZ
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) January 19, 2021
There was a lot of support in Teigen’s comments, but amongst the positivity were some negative comments. In particular, there was one person who claimed to be from D.C. and who was deeply frustrated to see Teigen tweeting about coming to their city—especially because they could barely get around themselves.
Hey Chrissy DC residents aren’t very “happy” right now and can’t even “happy pack” their cars to drive to the grocery store because of the military state the city is in but yeah LOL come on down especially in a pandemic. How happy!!!
— stacey b. (@staceybrnan) January 19, 2021
They acknowledged that it’s not Teigen or Legend’s fault that the city is on lockdown. That would be the fault of the Trump supporters who decided to storm the Capitol building, leading to five deaths. But it’s still annoying:
When did I say I didn’t? When did I even say I blame Chrissy? What I do blame her for is being tone deaf and planning a “happy” trip to the center of the issue, when John is doing a gig no one will even be able to see. It’s all privilege and really minimizes what DC is going thru
— stacey b. (@staceybrnan) January 19, 2021
Well, exactly. Literally no one will be there to see him perform, because no one is allowed to. Why couldn’t he do a virtual performance and also why does his whole family have to go when literally no one can move about the city? Like…yeah, exactly. She should turn the tv on…
— stacey b. (@staceybrnan) January 19, 2021
Teigen eventually noticed this person and quote-tweeted them, asking why everyone is always mad at her:
for fucks sake why are you guys always always mad at me, all I wanna do is make you happy or at least leave you with a neutral feeling of indifference https://t.co/C8Rse2dxCO
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) January 20, 2021
this is not my fault but I’m sorry you’re frustrated. I just like to share what we are up to and whatnot https://t.co/bgvtjMu5IC
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) January 20, 2021
Recently, she caught some backlash for posting about taking up horseback riding, for instance. She insists that she just wants to share what’s going on in her life.
My advice is that if you don’t like seeing what Teigen is doing, hit the block button. She’s not gonna stop, nor is she going to understand that enormous privilege will always be difficult for some people to see, especially in times like these.
Also, let’s be honest, there are probably a hundred other more horrible people who went to D.C. to watch the inauguration, and you’re not in their mentions.