At a Nine Inch Nails concert earlier this week Trent Reznor told the crowd he’d responded to a guest list request from Ted Cruz by telling him to “fuck off“. Now Cruz has responded in a tweet calling the story “#fakenews”.

In the tweet Ted Cruz also said he wasn’t a fan of Nine Inch Nails, saying “no, NIN is not my music taste.” He also confirmed that he did not drink all the beer at a previous NIN gig but said “but I would have!” Check out the tweet below.

To all the gullible reporters who are “reporting” that I asked to be on the guest list at a Nine Inch Nails concert: uh, no, NIN is not my music taste. He was clearly joking. And for the record, I also didn’t “drink all his beer” the last time…but I would have! #FakeNews https://t.co/ZNr292SCVl — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 29, 2018

Whilst talking about Cruz at the concert Reznor told fans the Texas senator had come to a previous show years earlier, “drank all the beer and was just a pain in the ass to be around.” According to Cruz it’s not true and everything was said in jest.

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