Donald Trump calls Kanye West ‘a severely troubled man’

Donald Trump has known as Kanye West a “severely troubled man” following their current dinner collectively on the former US President’s Florida property.

Trump took to Reality Social, the alt-tech, ‘anti censorship’ social media platform he helped to launch after being banned from Twitter in 2021, to share his model of occasions from his assembly with West. Each males are making a bid for the White Home in 2024, with West confirming his candidacy earlier this week. He initially ran for the presidency in 2020 however conceded his run after profitable 50,000 votes, whereas vowing to take a second shot on the race in 2024. 

“So I assist a severely troubled man, who simply occurs to be black, Ye (Kanye West), who has been decimated in his enterprise and nearly every little thing else, and who has all the time been good to me, by permitting his request for a gathering at Mar-a-Lago, alone, in order that I can provide him very a lot wanted recommendation,” Trump wrote. “He reveals up with 3 individuals, two of which I didn’t know, the opposite a political one who I haven’t seen in years. I advised him don’t run for workplace, a complete waste of time, can’t win. Pretend Information went CRAZY!”

One of many individuals Trump is referring to is right-wing political commentator Nick Fuentes, who has documented white supremacist leanings. West was seen with Fuentes at Miami’s airport and later described him as a “Trump loyalist” in what seemed to be a presidential marketing campaign video launched on Friday (November 25). He additionally mentioned that Trump was “actually impressed” with Fuentes, regardless of not realizing him.

On his option to meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago yesterday, Kanye West was filmed strolling by Miami's airport with misogynistic antisemitic white nationalist Christian fascist incel Nick Fuentes. https://t.co/903Sa56Jb5 pic.twitter.com/Jn3bKtt9JE

— Proper Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) November 23, 2022

West has confirmed on his newly-reinstated Twitter account that at this assembly, he requested Trump to be his working mate. “First time at Mar-a-Lago,” he tweeted. “Rain and site visitors. Can’t imagine I saved President Trump ready. And I had on denims. Yikes.”

He later posted a ballot for followers by which he requested: “What you guys assume his response was once I requested him to be my working mate in 2024?”

First time at Mar-a-Lago

Rain and site visitors

Can’t imagine I saved President Trump ready

And I had on denims Yikes

What you guys assume his response was once I requested him to be my working mate in 2024?

— ye (@kanyewest) November 23, 2022

He had mentioned within the aforementioned video that his proposition was “decrease on the checklist of issues that caught [Trump] off guard”, claiming as a substitute that the politician was “most perturbed” by “the truth that I walked in with intelligence.”

The second throughout the dinner the place Trump tried to dissuade West from working for President was additionally seemingly confirmed in West’s video. “Trump began principally screaming at me on the desk, telling me I used to be gonna lose,” he mentioned. “I imply, has that ever labored for anybody in historical past? I’m like, maintain on maintain on, you’re speaking about Ye.”

#YE24 pic.twitter.com/LuZ2YfncSg

— ye (@kanyewest) November 25, 2022

Trump and West’s relationship dates way back to 2015, the yr when West first introduced his intention to run for president in 2020. Trump later advised Rolling Stone that he “hope[d] to run in opposition to [West] sometime.” The next yr, West declared to crowds at his Saint Pablo Tour that “if I'd’ve voted, I'd’ve voted for Trump,” earlier than assembly with Trump on the Trump Towers in New York Metropolis.

In 2018, West wore a ‘Make America Nice Once more’ hat throughout his look as a musical visitor on Saturday Evening Reside. The rapper’s Trump-related tangent throughout the broadcast was reduce off to the overall viewing public, with Trump later tweeting that West’s look “was nice”.