Donald Trump invited his friend, the talented rapper, producer, mogul, and fashion designer Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, to his Mar-a-Lago country club for dinner two days before Thanksgiving in 2022.
What does Trump possibly have in common with a temperamental, egomaniacal, mentally ill man child like Ye?
Pause for emphasis.
How about being charged with sexual misconduct and having a mutual love for Adolf Hitler?
I’ll get to that in a minute.
It had been a tough six weeks or so for Ye, after facing widespread condemnation for making ant-Semitic remarks … again.
https://www.ajc.org/news/5-of-kanye-wests-antisemitic-remarks-explained
Ye, who is Black, first offended Blacks and probably anyone else capable of being offended, by wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt at the Paris Fashion Week.
This prompted a social media exchange with rapper Sean Combs, also known as Puff Duddy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Love, Puffy, and Ralph.
Ye accused Combs of being controlled by Jewish people and took the madness even further by threatening to go “death con 3 on Jewish people,” what the Los Angeles Times called a “fumbling” reference to the `DEFCON’ label of the United States’ defense-condition readiness alert system.”
A number of businesses cut their ties with Ye and social media companies suspended him.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63387607
And then things began to unravel for Ye, who, to his credit, has addressed his mental illness, which is of course more than you can say about his host at their dinner a couple days before Thanksgiving.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/10/11/bipolar-disorder-symptoms-treatment/
Ye went on Tucker Carlson’s program on Fox News where he made additional anti-Semitic remarks that were so offensive Fox did not air much of the interview.
The interview later aired on the online site, Motherboard.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxn4jx/tucker-carlson-kanye-west-interview
Ye referred to the trope that Jews controlled control financial institutions when talking about how his children would celebrate the holidays.
“My kids are going to a school that teaches Black kids a complicated Kwanzaa,” Ye said. “I prefer my kids knew Hanukkah than Kwanzaa. At least it would come with some financial engineering.”
He said, in unaired footage, that “fake children” had been left in his home “to sexualize my kids.”
Ye, who had run for president in 2020 before conceding on Election Day after receiving only 70 thousand votes.
By contrast, Donald Trump, who lost to Biden by seven million votes, has yet to concede.
Ye announced he would seek the presidency in 2024.
Ye wanted Trump’s advice on his recent business difficulties and wanted to ask Trump to be his running mate in his presidential run.
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-kanye-west-asked-business-advice-mar-a-lago-2022-11
Ye showed up for dinner with three uninvited guests, including white nationalist and anti-Semite Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier who has called for the genocide of Jews.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nick-fuentes-jews-executed-1234925748/
Trump did not appear to object to eating with a virulent white supremacist – and apparently neither did Fuentes.
But Trump apparently became annoyed when Ye asked Trump to be his running mate.
Ye, who had been allowed to return to Twitter, posted a video that said, “Trump is really impressed with Nick Fuentes.”
A few days later, Ye went to an even more sinister place than Mar-a-Lago, appearing with Fuentes in a livestream interview with Alex Jones.
“I like Hitler,” Ye told Jones said to open the conversation.
Minutes later, the rapper said, “I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis.”
Jones laughed and quickly added, “Well, I have to disagree with that.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/01/kanye-west-alex-jones-hilter-interview/
It isn’t clear what part of Ye’s statement that Jones disagreed with.
Jones told Ye, “You’re not a Nazi” and “You don’t deserve to be called that and demonized.”
“Well,” he replied, “I see good things about Hitler.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/01/kanye-west-alex-jones-hilter-interview/
This is something that Trump and Ye have in common.
John Kelly, Trump’s chief of staff, said that Trump told him during a trip to Europe to commemorate World War II that Hitler “did a lot of good things.”
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Ye and Trump have something else in common: sexual misconduct.
Adidas began investigating Ye shortly before the dinner at Mar-a-Lago in November 2022 for reportedly sexually harassing employees at Yeezy, Ye’s line of shoes manufactured by the shoe company.
The German shoe company, which manufactured and sold the rapper’s shoe, began an investigation after receiving complaints that Ye had shown employees explicit photos of his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.
https://navigatelawgroup.com/did-kanye-west-sexually-harass-employees-at-yeezy-and-adidas/
