During a meeting with Trump in Mar-a-Lago this week, Kanye West revealed that the former US president allegedly insulted his ex-wife Kim Kardashian and turned down his desire to run alongside him in the 2024 election.
The artist and fashion designer disclosed he met with Trump on Wednesday to talk about a potential merger in a two-minute campaign advertisement released to Twitter on Friday morning, November 25.
Ye gave his own description of the conversation in the brief video, claiming that the previous president heard him express his desire to become president.
Kanye claims that he questioned Trump after the former US president warned him that he would lose if he ran for office.
‘The thing that Trump was most perturbed about [is] me asking him to be my vice president,’ Kanye said the clip posted on his recently-unlocked Twitter account on Thanksgiving night.
He continued: ‘I think that was, like, lower on the list of things that caught him off guard.
‘It was the fact that I walked in with intelligence.’
He charged that the former president had distanced himself from other public personalities like Fuentes because of their opinions while dismissing key members of his cabinet, including top advisers Karen Giorno and Steve Bannon.
West would go on to praise Fuentes as a Trump “loyalist,” praising his support for the Capitol takeover by supporters of the then-outgoing president on January 6, 2021.
‘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 in the video, which featured a caption with the hashtag #YE24.
‘When all the lawyers said, “forget it, Trump’s done,” there were loyalists running up in the White House, right?’ West continued.
Ye proceeded to chide the Trump for not doing anything to help the hundreds of Americans being prosecuted for their part in the January 6 insurrection attempt
‘Why, when you had the chance, did you not free the January 6ers?’ West asked incredulously.
The rapper then offered advice to Trump, telling him to ‘go and get these people that the media tried to cancel’ .
West said he did not become offended until Trump insulted Kim Kardashian to his face, though the insult itself is censored in the footage.
Trump allegedly told West, ‘you can tell her I said that.’
The rapper said that at that point, he told Trump, ‘That’s the mother of my children.’
‘Trump started basically screaming at the table telling me I was gonna lose,’ West recalled, adding, I mean, has that ever worked for anyone in history?’
‘I’m like, “Wait, hold on Trump – you’re talking to Ye.”‘