
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.
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 🗳 (@Darren Sands 🗳) 1524688156.0
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… https://t.co/nLJcrJHEka— Keith Boykin (@Keith Boykin) 1524687710.0
Check out more responses below:
gonna be wild when yeezy season 6 includes distressed MAGA caps— NZ (@NZ) 1524690178.0
Waiting for the Kanye brain meme that starts off with “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” and ends with g… https://t.co/oxD8EbpZNN— Petty Is Praxis (@Petty Is Praxis) 1524689194.0
Kanye is using Twitter exactly how Trump did during the 2016 election: Erratic, outrageous and often confusing bur… https://t.co/60UDxn6ZqG— jordan (@jordan) 1524687918.0
Fox News: athletes and celebrities shouldn’t comment on politics *Kanye supports Trump* Fox News: https://t.co/CMKHMJ9Uke— Sanch (@Sanch) 1524689438.0
Trump Voters listening to Kanye for the first time ever tonight https://t.co/7aA4kfWqGm— Caleb Blodgett 🧢 (@Caleb Blodgett 🧢) 1524688818.0