Kanye West says Trump ‘shouted’ that he burned Kim and lost the 2024 election

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Kanye West hit out last week when Donald Trump accused his ex-wife Kim Kardashian of eating with white supremacist Nick Fuentes at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort. said he had lost his cool.

and Video posted on Twitter Titled “Mar-a-Lago debrief,” 45-year-old West announced that he would be running to become America’s commander-in-chief in 2024. When the rapper asked him to be his running mate, Trump said: He claimed he was angry.

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“Trump was most upset by [was] I asked him to be my vice president.

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of stronger The hitmaker alleged that Trump, who has also announced his candidacy for re-election in 2024, criticized West’s political ambitions and told the Grammy winner he would lose if he ran for 2024.

“Trump basically started yelling at the table that I would lose. I mean, have you ever worked for anyone in history?” West continued. “Wait, wait, wait. Trump, you’re talking to Ye.”

West also alleged that Trump, 76, made disparaging remarks about his ex-spouse Kim Kardashian. It looked like there was

“You can tell her what I said,” Trump supposedly said. “And she was like, ‘That’s the mother of my kids,'” West said.

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In the video, Kanye added that he “loves Trump,” and that the former leader was “impressed by Nick Fuentes,” a prominent racist. Unlike many lawyers and many people left in the 2020 election campaign, he is actually a loyal person.

Verified Advisor CBS news On Friday, Trump dined with Fuentes and West last week without knowing who Nick was.

“Kanye West wanted to go to Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner was just for Kanye and me, but he arrived with a guest I had never met or knew anything about.” I did,” Trump said in a statement. CBS news.

Fuentes is a leading far-right figure and has been accused of spreading an anti-Semitic conspiracy. According to the Anti-Defamation League, Fuentes is a Holocaust denier and has appeared at numerous “Stop the Steal” events prior to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

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After ranting in a social media post that he was about to run a “deathcon 3 against the Jews” (which got him banned from Twitter and Instagram), West took to heart the t-shirt he was wearing. The line has been embroiled in controversy for weeks since it was announced. He made his debut at Paris Fashion Week under the slogan ‘White Lives Matter’.

His actions cost him billions of dollars in losses, including the loss of prominent business partnerships with Adidas, Gap and Balenciaga. Told.

“So I’m a deeply troubled man, who happens to be a black Ye (Kanye West), but he’s been decimated in business and virtually everything else, and he’s always been nice to me, and he’s always been nice to me, and he’s always been nice to me. Alone in Mar-a-Lago so I could give him much-needed ‘advice,'” Trump said in a message posted on his Truth Social account. “He showed up with three people, two of whom I didn’t know and one a politician I hadn’t seen in years. I told him, I said don’t run for election, you’re wasting your time, you can’t win, Fake News has gone crazy!”

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Former presidents have a long history of not speaking out against hate speech. During the 2016 campaign, Trump claimed he “knows nothing about Duke” after the former KKK leader recommended him for president.

Meanwhile, in 2017, after a white supremacist rally died in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump dismissed protests, saying “both sides are to blame” for the violence.

‘This is a nightmare,’ said longtime Trump adviser NBC News About dinner with West and Fuentes. “When people are watching [Florida Gov. Ron] There are other reasons why DeSantis opposes Trump. “

mdaniell@postmedia.com