Kanye ‘Ye’ West continued on his path of complete self-destruction Thursdaynight, releasing a string of videos including a two-minute campaign promodissing Donald Trump.
The rapper, 45, announced last week that he plans to run for president againin 2024.
“The thing that Trump was most perturbed about [is] me asking him to be myvice president,” Kanye said in one of the videos published on his recently-unlocked Twitter account on Thanksgiving night. “I think that was, like, loweron the list of things that caught him off guard.”
“It was the fact that I walked in with intelligence,” he says.
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Even after the video was posted, Kanye ‘ s adviser took aim at Trump in nouncertain terms. Of the videos and Ye’s relationship with Trump at present,Milo Yiannopoulos told The Daily Beast: “As a connoisseur and an intimate ofseveral mercurial billionaires, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least to findthem laughing about it in the near future. Assuming Mr. Trump isn’t toowounded, of course.”
Though, he continued: “Trumpworld is in crisis tonight.”
“In my personal view, the former president has only himself to blame. This isan overdue reckoning. President Trump has neglected and betrayed everyone wholoved him most, from the canceled personalities who helped him into office tohis abused supporters on January 6. He might like to reflect on whether hecould have done more to acknowledge and support his most loyal fans over theyears,” the far-right provocateur said. “Habitual, callous ingratitude has away of catching up with you.”
The campaign teaser is titled “Mar-a-Lago debrief” and comes just two daysafter West and noted white supremacist Nicholas Fuentes were spotted outsidethe former president’s Florida golf club on Tuesday.
As the video continues, the rapper, who was dropped by Adidas last month afteran unrelenting stream of anti-Semitic comments, goes on to praise Fuentes.
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“Nick Fuentes, unlike so many of the lawyers and some of the people [Trump]was left with on his 2020 campaign, he’s actually a loyalist,” West said inthe clip. “When all the lawyers said, ‘forget it, Trump’s done,’ there wereloyalists running up in the White House, right? And my question would be,’Why, when you had the chance, did you not free the January 6ers?’”
As he speaks about counseling Trump to “go and get these people that the mediatried to cancel,” the video flashes photos of former Trump campaign managerCorey Lewandowski, Trump ally Roger Stone, and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones,who has been ordered to pay over $1 billion to the families of the Sandy Hookvictims for lying about their children’s deaths.
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The disgraced shoe designer and musician said Trump dismissed his presidentialaspirations with a “would-be mob-esque” story in which he claimed that hegranted clemency to former federal prisoner Alice Johnson for West. West’s ex-wife Kim Kardashian had campaigned heavily for Trump to pardon Johnson.
In the same video, Kanye reveals that Trump insulted Kardashian, though theinsult itself has bleeped. Trump allegedly told Kanye, “you can tell her Isaid that.”
“I was thinking, like, that’s the mother of my children,” West said.
The mention of Kardashian comes as West faces an internal investigation fromAdidas – which carried his Yeezy shoe brand from 2013 until last month – intoallegations that he harassed his former employees. In an anonymous letterobtained by Rollingstone this week, several ex-employees claimed that Westbelittled them and harassed them by showing them pornography, includinggraphic images of Kardashian herself.
In the bizarre campaign announcement video, West said that Trump wasn’t toohappy with his plans for higher office.
“When Trump started basically screaming at the table telling me I was gonnalose, I mean, has that ever worked for anyone in history? I’m like, ‘wait,hold on Trump, you’re talking to Ye,’” the Grammy winner said.
The video ends with the intro to his 2016 song “Father Stretch My Hands, Pt.1,” and a title card reading “YE24.”
Of the two other videos posted Thursday night, one is made up of news clipsabout Adidas dropping West, while another one mostly features a monologue byFox News host Tucker Carlson in support of West.
A Trump spokesperson didn’t immediately return The Daily Beast’s request forcomment on West’s claims Thursday night.
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