Flipboard Culture Desk<p>Singer Jewel has apologized to fans and the LGBTQ+ community for performing at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Inauguration Day ball. The Alaskan singer/songwriter was called out online for participating in the "Make America Healthy Again" event, which was in honor of RFK Jr., a vaccine skeptic and Donald Trump's pick for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. </p><p>At the ball, Jewel told the crowd: “I want to thank Bobby for sacrificing so much to make America healthy again. To start treating us like we’re a whole human." She sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," explaining at the time. “I think that it sums up the hope that founded America and that I think we’re all feeling again." In her apology, she described her words as being "overly simplistic."</p><p>Find <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Deadline" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Deadline</span></a></span>'s coverage of the apology at the first link, and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@usweekly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>usweekly</span></a></span>'s story about the original performance at the second.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/43CJZ5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/43CJZ5</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://flip.it/s-sXnu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/s-sXnu</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Celebrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Celebrity</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Jewel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewel</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/RFK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFK</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/RobertFKennedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertFKennedy</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/CherylHines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CherylHines</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a></p>