Rapper Nelly is expressing his hopes for the future following his controversial performance at Donald Trump’s inaugural Liberty Ball.

CBS News will carry the Trump Inauguration Day events live, beginning at 9 a.m. ET, across broadcast and streaming platforms.

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President Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government.

Rapper Nelly will be hitting the stage to celebrate the inauguration of Donald Trump, who will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, according to CBS News. The 50-year-old hip-hop star, real name Cornell Haynes, Jr., is expected to perform at the Inaugural Liberty Ball, one of three evening balls.

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I’m not doing this for money,” Nelly stated firmly during the interview. “This is about standing up for what I believe in and taking an opportunity to engage in dialogue—not division.”

As the 47th President, Trump promised to be a “peacemaker and unifier,” but his proposed policies—ending DEI initiatives, mass deportations and denying transgender identity—contradict that.

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not just criminal prosecutions that worry those who have crossed President Donald Trump. There are more prosaic kinds of retaliation: having difficulty renewing passports, getting audited by the IRS and losing federal pensions.

President Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is swiftly breaching the traditional boundaries of presidential power as he returns to the White House, bringing to bear a lifetime of bending the limits in courthouses, boardrooms and politics to forge an expansive view of his authority.