Kanye West Goes Radio Silent on Trump Question

Kanye West Goes Radio Silent on Trump Question

On Thursday night, Kanye West was on Jimmy Kimmel Live talking politics and his feelings for Donald Trump.

Ye went into a lengthy conversation about simulation and conformity.

Kanye West tells Jimmy Kimmel that he refuses to be part of the “black mold” or way of thinking. Read on…

Jimmy Kimmel also asked the Kanye West about the reaction to his support for Trump and if he thought he was a good president.

Kanye West who says that people need to be more loving about their actions. He explains how he is love, working in love because the world is full of so much hate.

Kanye explains to Jimmy Kimmel like this:

It’s funny, in this world that we live in, there are two main motivating forces, and I tweet about it all the time: it’s love or fear, and you can’t explain love. My cousin is locked up for murder, and I love him and so he did a bad thing, but I still love him.

Ye goes on to point out how Black Hollywood threatened him to be democratic when he was a Trump supporter. He explained how his position as an artist was threatened.

Just as a musician, African-American guy out in Hollywood – all these different things, everyone around me tried to pick my candidate for me and then told me every time I said I liked Trump that I couldn’t say it out loud or my career would be over, I’d get kicked out (of) the black community, because blacks, we’re supposed to have a monolithic thought – we can only be Democrats.

He went on to explain his confidence was weak in 2016 when he was hospitalized.

Kanye West Goes Radio Silent on Trump Question

It took him a while before he felt courageous enough to endorse the president.

I didn’t have the confidence to take on the world and possible backlash. It took me a year and a half to have the confidence to stand up and put on the hat, no matter what the consequences were and what it represented to me – it’s not about policies ’cause I’m not a politician like that but it represented overcoming fear and doing what you felt no matter what anyone said and saying you can’t bully me, liberals can’t bully me, news can’t bully me, the hip-hop community, they can’t bully me. Because at that point, if I’m afraid to be me, I’m no longer ‘Ye. That’s what makes Ye. And I actually quite enjoy when people actually are mad at me about certain things.

Kanye West Goes Radio Silent on Trump Question

And then the interview turned left and Kanye West went radio silent when Kimmel asked the burning question.

Jimmy said:

There are literally families being torn apart as a result of what this president is doing, and I think that we cannot forget that whether we like his personality or not, his actions are really what matter. You’ve so famously and so powerfully said ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people,’ it makes me wonder what makes you think that Donald Trump does, or any people at all?

Kanye went radio silent, so Jimmy Kimmel quickly did an exit and went to commercial, saying:

Why don’t we take a break; we’ll come back…

Bam! Right there Kanye just stops when things don’t go his way. Let’s not forget he likes to upset people. He finds joy in it, he says it in the interview!

The sad thing is we support people being more loving, but we are NOT supporting his views of Trump. President 45 is a racist bigot, and for some reason, Ye can’t see that.

No worries the rest of the viewing public can:

Here is what was said on Twitter:

#KanyeWest tries to stand up for trump and #JimmyKimmel shuts em up with facts.

Another comment read:

So… Kanye is not gonna answer the question Jimmy asked about Trump separating families and if he loves black people? We’re just gonna ignore that. Back to small talk, I see

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