Former President Donald Trump acknowledged he recently met up with rap icon Kanye West, though he downplayed the meeting as “uneventful.”
Posting to Truth Social Friday, Trump said West had made arrangements to meet with him last week before showing up at his Mar-a-Lago resort “unexpectedly.”
“This past week, Kanye West called me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago,” Trump stated the day after Thanksgiving.
“Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about. We had dinner on Tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. The dinner was quick and uneventful. They then left for the airport.”
In a statement to Breitbart discussing the meeting, Trump’s campaign stated, “Kanye West very much wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner meeting was intended to be Kanye and me only, but he arrived with a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about.”
The two guests Ye brought with him were reportedly political strategist Karen Giorno and controversial leader of the America First movement Nick Fuentes.
Earlier this week, the rapper now known as “Ye” tweeted he was at Trump’s West Palm Beach resort, and that he asked the former president to be his running mate.
“First time at Mar-a-Lago Rain and traffic,” Ye tweeted. “Can’t believe I kept President Trump waiting,” he wrote, adding, “And I had on jeans Yikes.”
“What you guys think his response was when I asked him to be my running mate in 2024?” he asked, despite Trump’s big announcement earlier this month declaring he would again be seeking the presidency.
Meanwhile, Ye’s announcement he would again run for president in 2024 was much less ceremonious, with him mentioning it in an offhanded comment during a live recording inside one of his clothing factories.
In an update posted to Twitter Thursday, Ye speaking beside his newly enlisted campaign worker former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannapolous claimed Trump behaved in a “would-be mob-esque” manner when explaining why he didn’t free the January 6 protesters, before going on to claim the former president issued an insult towards his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.
“Trump is really impressed with Nick Fuentes,” claimed Ye.
Kanye then described Trump as unhinged as he allegedly “screamed” at the rapper his presidential bid would not succeed.
“When Trump started basically screaming at me at the table telling me I was going to lose, I mean, has that ever worked for anyone in history? Telling Ye that I’m going to lose?”
“I’m like, ‘Hold on Trump, you’re talking to Ye.’”
Back in 2018, Trump invited the rapper, who admits he “loves Trump,” to meet with him in the White House’s Oval Office, where Ye famously wore the president’s trademark Make America Great Again ball cap.
It’s apparent Trump is unamused by Ye’s recent stunt, but is the rapper really serious about mounting another presidential bid, especially against a showstopper political force like Trump?
Posting to Truth Social Friday, Trump said West had made arrangements to meet with him last week before showing up at his Mar-a-Lago resort “unexpectedly.”
“This past week, Kanye West called me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago,” Trump stated the day after Thanksgiving.
“Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about. We had dinner on Tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. The dinner was quick and uneventful. They then left for the airport.”
In a statement to Breitbart discussing the meeting, Trump’s campaign stated, “Kanye West very much wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner meeting was intended to be Kanye and me only, but he arrived with a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about.”
The two guests Ye brought with him were reportedly political strategist Karen Giorno and controversial leader of the America First movement Nick Fuentes.
Earlier this week, the rapper now known as “Ye” tweeted he was at Trump’s West Palm Beach resort, and that he asked the former president to be his running mate.
“First time at Mar-a-Lago Rain and traffic,” Ye tweeted. “Can’t believe I kept President Trump waiting,” he wrote, adding, “And I had on jeans Yikes.”
“What you guys think his response was when I asked him to be my running mate in 2024?” he asked, despite Trump’s big announcement earlier this month declaring he would again be seeking the presidency.
Meanwhile, Ye’s announcement he would again run for president in 2024 was much less ceremonious, with him mentioning it in an offhanded comment during a live recording inside one of his clothing factories.
In an update posted to Twitter Thursday, Ye speaking beside his newly enlisted campaign worker former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannapolous claimed Trump behaved in a “would-be mob-esque” manner when explaining why he didn’t free the January 6 protesters, before going on to claim the former president issued an insult towards his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.
“Trump is really impressed with Nick Fuentes,” claimed Ye.
Kanye then described Trump as unhinged as he allegedly “screamed” at the rapper his presidential bid would not succeed.
“When Trump started basically screaming at me at the table telling me I was going to lose, I mean, has that ever worked for anyone in history? Telling Ye that I’m going to lose?”
“I’m like, ‘Hold on Trump, you’re talking to Ye.’”
Back in 2018, Trump invited the rapper, who admits he “loves Trump,” to meet with him in the White House’s Oval Office, where Ye famously wore the president’s trademark Make America Great Again ball cap.
It’s apparent Trump is unamused by Ye’s recent stunt, but is the rapper really serious about mounting another presidential bid, especially against a showstopper political force like Trump?
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/11/27/trump-downplays-quick-and-uneventful-meeting-with-kanye/
