Donald Trump Says Kanye West Is ‘Very Complicated’ But a ‘Nice Guy’
From a 2018 go to on the Oval Office to a 2022 Mar-A-Lago dinner, Ye — previously Kanye West — and Donald Trump have been linked fairly a bit over time.
With 92 days and counting till Election Day, Trump’s campaigning made a cease by Adin Ross’ Kick stream on Monday afternoon (Aug. 5) with a choose group of Trump followers readily available and donning pink MAGA hats.
Ross and Trump engaged in a fast hits phase the place 45 gave his unbridled opinion on a litany of political figures, pop-culture stars and extra.
One of the images that popped up occurred to be Kanye West, and DT didn’t know the place to start out with Yeezy, however determined to channel Avril Lavigne’s 2002 Grammy-nominated hit together with his description of Ye.
“He’s a very complicated,” Trump mentioned of West. “Let’s say complicated because he is. He’s a really nice guy, but he can get some people into trouble. And he can get some other people. He’s got a good heart — he does, he does, but he’s complicated.”
Fans had been shocked to listen to Trump talk about Ye, however some didn’t assume he was far off in his floor stage description.
“Trump is honestly dead on target with this,” one individual wrote whereas one other chimed in on X: “Every time Trump speaks about Kanye he gives nothing but love to him.”
Trump and West have been intertwined at instances all through the final decade. The former president despatched his well-wishes to Kanye and Kim Kardashian after they tied the knot in 2014.
Ye had a pretend Trump forged within the “Famous” video and later professed he would’ve voted for him within the 2016 election if he had voted.
Their relationship went to a different stage in 2018 when West pulled as much as the White House in a pink Make America Great Again hat, which he rocked a few weeks prior whereas acting on Saturday Night Live.
“It was something about when I put this hat on that made me feel like Superman. You made a Superman — that’s my favorite superhero — you made a Superman cape,” Ye informed reporters on the Oval Office in 2018. “I think it’s the bravery that helps you beat this game called life. They tried to scare me into not wearing this hat — my own friends. This hat, it gives me power in a certain way.”
Ye went head-to-head with Donald Trump and Joe Biden in a failed bid to win the 2020 Presidential Election. The tenor of their friendship modified in 2022 when West pulled as much as a Mar-A-Lago dinner at Trump’s membership together with his controversial political affiliate Nick Fuentes.
Per NBC, West criticized Trump for not protecting the authorized payments of these arrested in the course of the Jan. 6 riots on the Capitol and requested the previous president to be his working mate in ’24.
Elsewhere in Trump’s interview with Adin Ross, he was gifted a free Cyber Truck and Rolex watch from the streamer, which Rolling Stone speculates might be a violation of FEC guidelines.