When Alexis Wilkins stepped up to perform the US national anthem at a Donald Trump-backed celebration in Washington, D.C., she likely expected the patriotic performance to generate headlines. It certainly did.
But instead of praise, the 27-year-old country singer and girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel found herself at the centre of a social media firestorm, with critics branding her rendition 'off-key', 'dull' and nowhere near the standard of country music icon Dolly Parton.
