Kanye West is still standing beside Donald Trump, despite seemingly having a rift in their relationship a few years back.
Paparazzi caught up with Ye in an airport on Monday (February 12), where he spoke at length about surviving cancellation, bouncing back from near bankruptcy and more. He was also asked if he was still “backing Trump,” and he didn’t hesitate in his response.
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“Yeah of course, it’s Trump all day,” he said. “What you talking ’bout? You know what it is.”
You can view the clip below.
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Back in 2022, Kanye West claimed that Trump insulted him and his ex-wife Kim Kardashian during a meeting with the former president at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
“I think the thing that Trump was most perturbed about [was] me asking him to be my vice president,” he wrote on Twitter with a video of him recapping his visit to Trump’s Florida estate. I think that was, like, lower on the list of things that caught him off guard. It was the fact that I walked in with intelligence,” he said, referencing the prominent (yet problematic) political figures he’s assembled around him.
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Kanye West went on to say that Trump was “really impressed” with controversial white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who the G.O.O.D. Music founder traveled to Florida with, while asking Trump why he didn’t free those who stormed the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.
Toward the end of the video, Kanye West claimed Donald Trump called Kim Kardashian something explicit before screaming at him and telling him he’s going to lose in the upcoming presidential election.
He added: “When Trump started basically screaming at me at the table telling me I was gonna lose. I mean, has that ever worked for anyone in history? I’m like, ‘Woah woah, hold on, hold on, Trump. You’re talking to Ye.’”
“But then he goes on to say that, ‘Kim is a [bleep], you can tell her I said that,’” he said. “And I was thinking like, ‘That’s the mother of my children.’ Since we and all the Christians in America that love Trump, know that Trump is a conservative, we’re gonna demand that you hold all policies directly to the Bible.”
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According to a report from Timcast that Kanye shared on Twitter, Trump called Kardashian “disgusting” and grew “angry” with West during the meeting.
It seems the pair have since put the incident aside, however, and are continuing their relationship that dates back to 2018.
