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R. Kelly Addresses “Rumors” He’s Performing At Trump Inauguration

NEW YORK, NY – DECEMBER 17: Singer R. Kelly performs in concert during the ’12 Nights Of Christmas’ tour at Kings Theatre on December 17, 2016 in the Brooklyn borough New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images)

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Nobody was saying that R. Kelly was going to perform at Donald Trump's inauguration. It's virtually impossible to imagine anything like that happening. But someone must've told R. Kelly that people online were talking about this. (If anything, people were probably just making jokes about Kelly's sex-abuse allegations and the whole Golden Shower-gate thing that came out this week.) In any case, Trump has taken to Twitter to disavow any rumors that he'll have anything to do with Trump's big day. Here's his statement:

https://twitter.com/rkelly/status/819713212400615425

Kelly must be paying some real smartass to run his social media presence; note the yellow background and the way the red words seem to spell out a secret message.

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