‘WTF is happening?’: Internet loses it over Trump and Kanye’s revived bromance
Nearly a year-and-a-half after their infamous meeting of the minds at Trump Tower following the 2016 presidential election, rapper Kanye West and President Donald Trump appear to have reunited following a series of tweets in which the artist openly endorsed the president. Twitter, as is their custom, is completely losing it as West goes full MAGA.
One user mused that Trump-supporting West has “gotta be a clone” of the man who criticized then-President George W. Bush after Hurricane Katrina for not caring about black people.
https://twitter.com/BasedChasen/status/989238029616271360
BuzzFeed News’ Darren Sands, meanwhile, found a surprising similarity between the two men: that they were both “humiliated in public by Barack Obama” and don’t appear to have “recovered” from it.
Kanye and Trump have something in common neither seems to have quite recovered from: being humiliated in public by Barack Obama.
— Darren Sands (@darrensands) April 25, 2018
Keith Boykin, a former Obama White House staffer and current CNN commentator, noted that Trump’s use of West’s views, which are “non-representative” of African Americans as a group, is part of “a long history dating back to slavery” and that he’s doing so “to justify the policies of white supremacy.”
There’s a long history dating back to slavery of white racists using the words of unrepresentative black figures to justify the policies of white supremacy. Trump’s invocation of Kanye West continues that legacy.
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) April 25, 2018
Check out more responses below:
gonna be wild when yeezy season 6 includes distressed MAGA caps
— Nathan Zed (@NathanZed) April 25, 2018
Waiting for the Kanye brain meme that starts off with “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” and ends with galaxy brain “but Donald Trump does”
— Petty is Praxis (@rtyson82) April 25, 2018
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Kanye is using Twitter exactly how Trump did during the 2016 election:
Erratic, outrageous and often confusing bursts of Tweets that drive the national discourse.
— jordan (@JordanUhl) April 25, 2018
To return the favor, Donald just posted this photo of himself wearing a yeezy jacket pic.twitter.com/DNMipTNyNW
— az (@zieg) April 25, 2018
Fox News: athletes and celebrities shouldn’t comment on politics
*Kanye supports Trump*
Fox News: pic.twitter.com/CMKHMJ9Uke
— Sanch (@imjsanch) April 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/natemcdermott/status/989240044144689152
Trump Voters listening to Kanye for the first time ever tonight pic.twitter.com/7aA4kfWqGm
— Americaleb (@clodgett) April 25, 2018
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We are an alt dimension where Kanye is a trump supporter: a conspiracy thread
— john linen (@ka5sh) April 25, 2018
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Denver cops busted for doing drive-by shootings of anti-police brutality protesters
In a video posted to Twitter, a young Denver man protesting the killing of George Floyd at the hands of four former Minnesota police officers, found himself on the receiving end of an attack by police himself as he filmed them riding on the side of a truck -- only to have his phone hit by a fired police projectile while still in his hand.
According to Rachelle D'nae, a staff writer at Slate, her brother went to the Denver protest and was filming the officers when the incident occurred.
"My older brother went to a protest in Denver last night. as the police were leaving, one of them shot him with a pepper pellet that smashed the back of his phone and exploded in his face. they were ~30 feet from each other and it looks like the officer aimed directly at his face," she wrote before adding in a second tweet, "when my brother told me he was going I prepared for the worst. I made sure he had my number memorized so I could bail him out if I needed to and I sat up until he made it home, trying not to cry as he told me he had been tear-gassed."
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US military brought in to monitor police brutality protests in 7 states: leaked documents
According to an exclusive report from The Nation, based upon Defense Department documents, U.S. military members are being dispatched to seven different states to monitor the activities of Americans who have taken to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of four former Minneapolis cops.
The report, by the Nation's Ken Klippenstein, notes that states include, "Minnesota, where a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, the military is tracking uprisings in New York, Ohio, Colorado, Arizona, Tennessee, and Kentucky, according to a Defense Department situation report," with the author pointing out, "Notably, only Minnesota has requested National Guard support."
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‘Absolute vacuum in leadership’: Internet shreds ‘coward’ Trump for hiding as 75 cities protest
President Donald Trump is under fire Sunday after the White House announced he will not be seen today despite five days and nights of protests in more than 75 cities across the country and governors in at least ten states activating the National Guard.
Possibly more than at any time during his three-and-a-half year old administration Trump is taking tremendous criticism for how he has managed the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and for his handling of the protests against the killing by police of George Floyd.
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