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The Weeknd, Belly Cancel Kimmel Performance Because of Trump

Trump did not respond to the AP’s request for comment and the show’s representatives told AP there was no comment on the artists’ withdrawal from the show.

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In the latest twist to this unpredictable 2016 presidential race, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and Vermont Sen. “She’s wonderful, the husband, everybody’s wonderful including contributions”.

Trump’s response? “A little bit”, he said, laughing.

“I would never want to use my name because you had to pay more money for the land”.

“I don’t want to do anything like that”, he said.

“You know, over the years I’ve used aliases”. Sanders, he said, challenged Trump to a debate since Hillary Clinton has declined.

In addition to debate talk Kimmel persisted in trying to get Trump to disclose his personal opinion about what the policy should be on transgender bathrooms.

“I’m here on a campaign of positivity and love and to contribute what I can to music”, he continued.

With Trump’s attempts to revive ’90’s-era Clinton scandals – and debunked conspiracy theories – dominating headlines this week, Kimmel brought up Trump quotes from 2008 and 2012 in which the billionaire said nice things about Hillary Clinton. “It’s getting nasty. I had no idea it was gonna be so nasty”.

“I hate to see it”, Trump said, to laughs. “I used the name Barron”, he added, explaining that’s how he named his youngest son. “I made a very good deal using that name”.

Kimmel also asked Trump about claims the presidential candidate pretended to be his own publicist in a recording that was recently released to the Washington Post.

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Donald Trump appeared as a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight (EDITOR NOTE: Mark that down in ya big ol’ calendar of content, would ya?), and the musicians were not at all keen to share the stage with him. “Trump is here in Hollywood, and I thought this was interesting, he has promised to make Hollywood Boulevard great again, by building a wall around Bill Cosby’s star on the Walk of Fame”.

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