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Former President Donald Trump is facing backlash for hosting Ye aka Kanye West and rabid white supremacist Nick Fuentes at his Florida resort home this past weekend.
According to reports, Trump held a dinner event for the rapper and Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago resort home last Tuesday night (Nov. 22). Ye was spotted strolling through Los Angeles International airport with Fuentes en route to catching a flight to Miami, with the two being very chummy. Ye himself would announce his plans via Twitter, writing: “First time at Mar-a-Lago. Rain and traffic. Can’t believe I kept President Trump waiting. And I had on jeans. Yikes. What you guys think his response was when I asked him to be my running mate in 2024?”
On his way to meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago yesterday, Kanye West was filmed walking through Miami's airport with misogynistic antisemitic white nationalist Christian fascist incel Nick Fuentes. https://t.co/903Sa56Jb5 pic.twitter.com/Jn3bKtt9JE
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) November 23, 2022
News of the pre-Thanksgiving meetup caused an immediate wave of disgust and backlash, as Trump is fresh into his 2024 bid to be president. Ye has been the center of an ongoing controversy over his antisemitic tirades and reports surfacing about his apparent fondness for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler among other disturbing behavior. Fuentes has been labeled a white supremacist by the Department of Justice and is a notable Holocaust denier who has been supported by far-right members of Congress such as Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) The controversy prompted Trump to shift the blame to Ye and deny knowing who Fuentes even was in a statement on his TruthSocial platform, as reported by Jonathan Swan of Axios.
NEW: Statement from fmr President Trump in response to our story about his dinner w Ye and Fuentes: "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." https://t.co/RLfWtJTfzQ
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) November 25, 2022
Ye gave his own accounting of the dinner in a video released through his Twitter account on Thanksgiving, stating that things got tense between Trump and himself due to Trump making harsh remarks about Kim Kardashian, Ye’s ex-wife. This allegedly occurred after Ye asked Trump about being his running mate. His campaign is reportedly being run by another far-right activist, Milo Yiannopoulos, who had been banned from Twitter in 2016 after targeting comedian Leslie Jones with a racist campaign.
Kanye recaps his recent meeting at Mar-a-Lago with Trump. He said Trump was “really impressed with (white nationalist leader) Nick Fuentes,” and insulted Kim Kardashian. pic.twitter.com/yhLihfy5LX
— Ron Filipkowski
(@RonFilipkowski) November 25, 2022
Trump would then further blast Ye on Saturday night (Nov. 26) in another TruthSocial post, writing: “So I help a seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black, Ye (Kanye West), who has been decimated in his business and virtually everything else, and who has always been good to me, by allowing his request for a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, alone, so that I can give him very much needed “advice.”
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