Donald Trump (left) and Kanye West (right) embrace in the foyer of Trump Tower in late 2016. Image via Timothy A. Clary/AFP.
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.
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."
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