Kanye West Not Invited to Perform at Trump Inauguration

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A spokesperson for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration committee told CNN that friend-of-Donald Kanye West was not invited to perform at the real estate mogul’s inaugural because his music wasn’t right for the “typically and traditionally American event.”

Tom Barrack, chairman of the Presidential Inauguration Committee, told CNN’s Erin Burnett that the inauguration wasn’t a “fitting” venue for West, who famously met with Trump in December and posed for a stiff photo at Trump Tower afterwards, and whose music is…