Rapper Kanye West has suddenly found himself the darling of Republican voters, following his declaration of support for President Donald Trump. In a move that angered some of his long-time fans, in April the rapper shared a picture of himself wearing a MAGA hat, and later explained said the president was "his brother." "You don't have to agree with Trump, but the mob can't make me not love him," West wrote in a tweet. "We are both dragon energy. [Trump] is my brother. I love everyone. I don't agree with everything anyone does. That's what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought." The musician also lashed out at former President Barack Obama, commenting that the Democrat " was in office for eight years and nothing in Chicago changed." Retweeting West, Trump responded: "Thank you Kanye. Very cool." And it appears the burgeoning bromance between the pair has improved Republican voters' view of the musician, with his approval among the group more …
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Did Kanye West stop supporting Donald Trump?
Only two weeks into the Donald Trump's presidency, one of his most famous supporters may have abandoned him. On Monday, Kanye West deleted all of his tweets about Trump. According to TMZ , it's because he's unhappy with Trump's Muslim ban. Related: Kanye West: I would have voted for Donald Trump For the last few months, West has supported the president. Shortly after the election, he spoke in favor of Trump while on his Saint Pablo tour. "I told y'all I didn't vote, right?" he said on stage. "But if I would've voted, I would've voted for Trump." In December, West visited Trump Tower in Manhattan to meet with the then-president-elect a few weeks after being hospitalized for "temporary psychosis." The two posed for photos in the lobby, as Trump explained that they had discussed "life." West later clarified in a series of tweets following the meeting that they spoke about "multicultural issues." He added: "I feel it is important to have a direct line of communication …
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Joe Biden wastes no time in undoing Donald Trump’s most damaging work
New US President Joe Biden has signed 17 executive orders in his first hours in office targeting some of his predecessor Donald Trump’s most controversial policies. Nine of the orders undid his immediate predecessor’s policies, with multiple others targeting Covid, climate change, immigration and racism – including the controversial Muslim ban . Biden invited TV cameras into the Oval Office on Wednesday – and said the first executive order he was signing was to make face masks compulsory across US government properties to try and combat coronavirus. Biden then signed an order which will see $1.9trillion of economic help offered to those affected by Covid including the extension of a ban on evictions. The third order saw the US formally rejoin the 2015 Paris Accord aimed at combatting climate change. More orders were signed over the course of Wednesday evening. One of the most notable Trump decrees reversed by Biden was the former president’s so-called Muslim ban, which …
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Donald Trump’s ‘kingmaker’ status in Republican party faces key test in Ohio
Donald Trump will on Tuesday face a major test of his "kingmaker" status in the Republican party as one of his favoured candidates seeks election to Congress in Ohio. The Make America Great Again political group linked to Mr Trump has spent over $300,000 on TV adverts backing a coal lobbyist in a race for the Republican nomination in a vacant seat. The result will be an indicator of whether Mr Trump still maintains a stranglehold over grass roots Republican voters seven months after he left office, and also a signal to Republican politicians across the country on whether they should continue to back the former president if they want to be re-elected. It comes as Mr Trump has already amassed a war chest of over $100 million since leaving office, which can be used to back Congressional candidates, or a campaign of his own for the 2024 presidential nomination. Less than two weeks ago a candidate backed by Mr Trump lost in another Republican primary election in Texas. Make …
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Do not be fooled by Conor McGregor – UFC is the sadistic Donald Trump equivalent of elite sport
Perhaps it was the photograph of Donald Trump in the Oval Office, alongside Barack Obama, wearing the expression of a man trying to explain string theory to an actual string. Or the news headlines, bleeding into each other like watercolours: “President Trump will today announce…”; “President Trump yesterday appointed…”. This is not a vivid cheese daydream. This is actually happening. One of the US media’s current buzzwords is “normalisation”: the idea that as outlandish as Trump’s rise may appear at present, the trappings and optics of his office will quickly render it routine. On Saturday night, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, we saw another example. A decade ago, the idea of the Ultimate Fighting Championship planting its cage amid one of the world’s most iconic sporting arenas would have seemed laughable. But here it was, and top of the bill was an Irishman called Conor McGregor , a two-weight world champion you might describe as the Trump of UFC: a man with a …
Why is Trump so obsessed with Andrew Jackson?
Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder, a populist and an emotionally volatile man who fought in as many as 100 duels during his lifetime. Naturally, Donald Trump has great admiration for him. In fact, Trump—despite his gaping and well-demonstrated ignorance of American history—has developed an unusual fixation with the seventh president. In January, Trump described Jackson as "an amazing figure in American history—very unique [in] so many ways" and hung a portrait of the early president in the Oval Office. And on Monday, during an interview with Salena Zito, a host on SiriusXM, Trump made some of his most mystifying historical proclamations to date: He claimed that Jackson might have been able to stop the Civil War. (Jackson died in 1845, a decade and a half before the war broke out.) Here are the widely circulated comments, which would not likely pass muster in a fourth-grade classroom: While these remarks are not at all historically sound, Trump's ongoing fixation with …
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Kanye West on Trump: “The mob can’t make me not love him”
President Donald Trump thanked Kanye West for his "very cool" defense of the U.S. leader after the rapper said his "love" for Trump would not change, despite widespread backlash from fans over his support for the president. First, West posted a photo of himself wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat on Wednesday, following it up with an image of the hat by itself and boasting that it was signed by the president. The rapper then took aim at former President Barack Obama in a separate tweet, saying the U.S. leader, who called West a "jackass" in 2009 after the rapper famously interrupted Taylor Swift's MTV Video Music Award (VMA) speech, "was in office for eight years and nothing in Chicago changed." The rapper's tweets were quickly met with heavy criticism, with some people calling his mental health into question, while others vowed to "unfollow" him. Responding to the backlash over his tweets, Kanye wrote: "You don't have to agree with Trump, but the mob can't make me not …
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The Trump campaign is using Kanye West’s tweets to sell #MAGA hats
President Donald Trump knows a good sales tactic when he sees one. And when Kanye West tweeted about his general support for the president Wednesday, and about his signed "make america great again" trucker hat, the Trump campaign seized on the moment. Trump's campaign sent a fundraising text message to supporters Thursday discussing West's recent bout of love for the president and the ensuing backlash against the musician and businessman. "Don't be silenced," the top of the message said in bolded capital letters. "Group think is a mandate of today's society and when a free thinker like Kanye West speaks truth, they attack him," the text continued, without explaining who "they" might be. "We support Kanye speaking his mind, even if sometimes we do not agree on the issues." The text then told readers to support free thinking by purchasing a red "MAGA" hat just like West's. The Republican National Committee also retweeted a picture of West's signed hat and added a link so that …
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Kanye West says he believes Trump ‘cares about the way black people feel about him’
American rapper and songwriter Kanye West finally has an answer for Jimmy Kimmel's question posed earlier this month on why he thinks President Donald Trump cares about black people. West was asked the same question Wednesday morning speaking on 107.5 WGCI Chicago radio station. West said he believes that Trump "cares about the way black people feel about him," after about a 25-second pause. "I feel that [Trump] cares about the way black people feel about him, and he would like for black people to like him like they did when he was cool in the rap songs and all this," West said. "He will do the things that are necessary to make that happen because he's got an ego like all the rest of us, and he wants to be the greatest president, and he knows that he can't be the greatest president without the acceptance of the black community. So, it's something he's going to work towards, but we're going to have to speak to him." The interview was uploaded on Facebook. West also apologized for …
Dennis Rodman cries on television after Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un shake hands
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman began crying with emotion during a CNN interview Monday evening, heralding President Donald Trump's decision to launch diplomatic discussions with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. Rodman is one of the only Americans to have visited the hermit kingdom and is deeply invested in the country's future. Wearing a red "Make America Great Again" cap on camera, Rodman stressed that he had shown North Korea his loyalty and trustworthiness. "I said to everybody, the door will open," Rodman said, his voice cracking with emotion. "It's amazing, it's amazing, it's amazing. When I said those things, when I went back home, I got so many death threats, and I believed in North Korea, and I couldn't go home, I couldn't even go home. I had to hide out for 30 days, but I kept my head high, and I knew things were going to change…. No more hatred," Rodman stressed, breaking into tears. "I don't see the politics of this whole situation," he added. Describing Kim with affection, …