.............Blind opera star Andrea Bocelli was forced to back out of performing at the inauguration after receiving death threats, while one of the headline acts, black Broadway legend Jennifer Holliday, was bullied into cancelling.

So let me get this straight: it’s now OK to attack the visually impaired and women of colour, but only if they dare accept Trump’s legitimacy?

Meanwhile, an unprecedented number of protesters are threatening to shut down the capital.

“We call on all people of good conscience to join in disrupting the ceremonies,” group DisruptJ20 writes on its website.

“If Trump is to be inaugurated at all, let it happen behind closed doors … We must take to the streets and protest, blockade, disrupt, sit in, walk out, rise up and make more noise than the establishment can bear.

“We must delegitimise Trump and all he represents.”............