Trump calls Kanye West ‘critically troubled man, who simply occurs to be black’ amid fallout over dinner

Donald Trump sharply criticised rapper Kanye West and ramped up his efforts to distance himself from a latest assembly between the 2 because the fallout over Mr Trump’s affiliation with Mr West’s marketing campaign advisers continues.

Mr Trump issued a press release through Fact Social calling the rapper a “critically troubled man, who simply occurs to be black” and as soon as once more denied figuring out Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist and racist who latched on to Mr West amid his more and more erratic spiral into hate speech and the utter destruction of his musical profession.

“So I assist a critically troubled man, who simply occurs to be black, Ye (Kanye West), who has been decimated in his enterprise and just about every little thing else, and who has all the time been good to me, by permitting his request for a gathering at Mar-a-Lago, alone, in order that I may give him very a lot wanted “recommendation.” He reveals up with 3 folks, two of which I didn’t know, the opposite a political one who I haven’t seen in years,” claimed the previous president.

He added: “I advised him don’t run for workplace, a complete waste of time, can’t win. Pretend Information went CRAZY!”

It isn’t clear why Mr Trump thought it pertinent to say Mr West’s race.

The president’s remarks come as he faces a pointy backlash from many on the correct for his embrace of Mr Fuentes, who prior to now has engaged in Holocaust denial on his livestreams and has endorsed the idea of segregation within the American south. Like Mr West, he’s a frequent person of anti-Jewish rhetoric and has brazenly talked about his need to information the trendy US conservative political motion in direction of antisemitism.

The rapper West has been surrounding himself with an ever-expanding circle of right-wing grifters as his embrace of anti-Jewish rhetoric (and the ensuing backlash) continues. Supposedly main his revived efforts to run for the presidency is Milo Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart Information author who was ousted from conservative circles in shame and vowed to burn the Republican Social gathering to the bottom in 2020 after making feedback seen as minimising the hurt brought on by pedophilia and the rape of minors. He has additionally made beneficial feedback about journalists being murdered and made exceedingly racist feedback about comic Leslie Jones and others.

Mr Trump’s assembly with these odious figures has resulted in a newfound wave of condemnations all through the GOP — even his loyalist former secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, condemned the transfer (whereas not truly mentioning his boss or Mr West by title), as he prepares to doubtlessly problem Mr Trump for the 2024 nomination.

Others, like former New Jersey Gov Chris Christie, have commented on how the assembly demonstrates an enormous lack of judgement from Mr Trump and his internal circle; many watchers within the media have agreed, speculating about how two figures with such in depth ties to the intense racist proper would make it previous Mr Trump’s advisers to a personal assembly with the previous president.