West, who now goes by Ye, met with the previous president at Mar-a-Lago on November 22, although preliminary media reviews left it unclear how a lot contact Trump had with Fuentes, a outstanding Christian nationalist and white supremacist.
In a video Ye launched late Thanksgiving night, the rapper says Fuentes was on the assembly as effectively, and that Trump took a liking to him.
“Trump may be very impressed with Nick Fuentes. And Nick Fuentes — in contrast to so lots of the legal professionals and so many individuals that [Trump] was left with on his 2020 marketing campaign — he is really a loyalist,” Ye says within the video.
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— ye (@kanyewest) November 25, 2022
Trump reportedly stated in an announcement printed by Axios that he and Ye had been purported to be consuming dinner à deux.
“Kanye West very a lot needed to go to Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner assembly was supposed to be Kanye and me solely, however he arrived with a visitor whom I had by no means met and knew nothing about,” the assertion reads.
Fuentes is the host of the America First podcast, through which he espouses racist, anti-Semitic, and misogynistic views.
After the midterm elections, Fuentes criticized homosexuality and “intercourse out of wedlock,” whereas calling for a dictatorship to overthrow the US authorities.
“It sucks, and it’s what it’s, however that’s why we want a dictatorship. That’s unironically why we have to eliminate all that,” Fuentes says in a video clip. “We have to take management of the media or take management of the federal government and drive the individuals to consider what we consider, or drive them to play by our guidelines and reshape the society.”
Other notable commentary from Fuentes:
- In a video highlighted by Right Wing Watch in July 2022, Fuentes complained about efforts to eradicate racial prejudice within the United States.
“That’s the true purple capsule. That’s the true job at hand… We are known as as members of Generation Z to rediscover the misplaced prejudice and racism of our grandparents,” Fuentes stated.
- In June 2022, Fuentes made a sequence of incendiary feedback in response to the decision within the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp slander trial.
“We want to return to burning ladies alive extra,” Fuentes stated. “Like when they’re convicted of crimes clearly, not random acts of violence… Remember that in medieval occasions, when ladies had been witches, what occurred to them? They had been burned alive. Real phenomenon. And we stopped doing that and every part went uncontrolled.”
- Fuentes has supported the January 6, 2021 Capitol Hill riot and known as for the day to be celebrated.
A vocal promoter of election fraud theories within the time main as much as the riot, Fuentes traveled across the U.S. in late 2020 and used non secular fundamentalism to incite outrage. His speeches referred to a conspiracy by which he claimed Satan-serving elites had been plotting towards the American individuals.
“It is about globalists and the American individuals, however greater than that, it’s concerning the forces of evil versus the individuals of Jesus Christ,” he stated on the Arizona state capitol in November 2020.
In his Thanksgiving video, Ye appeared to indicate solidarity with the January 6 rioters.
“Why, once you had the possibility, did you not free the January 6’ers?” Ye says, recounting his purported discussions with Trump.
Ye claims Trump lashed out at him over his plans to run towards the previous president in 2024. Trump was greatly surprised when Ye requested him if he would function the rapper’s vp, Ye says within the video.
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In a string of Thanksgiving tweets, the rapper additionally posted an alleged text-message dialogue between him, Fuentes, and former Breitbart editor and right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopolous. (Ye just lately introduced that Yiannopolous is engaged on Ye’s presidential marketing campaign.)Â In the textual content chain, the group discusses whether or not political advisor Jason Miller, a former Trump advisor, was the nameless supply for a Daily Beast article about Ye’s latest exploits.
Ye has misplaced tons of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} value of economic sponsorships and partnerships during the last two months after publicly posting anti-Semitic feedback.
In early October, Ye publicized a heated alternate, allegedly with rapper Sean Combs (AKA P Diddy), through which Ye professed through textual content message, “Ima use you for instance to indicate the Jewish those that instructed you to name me that nobody can threaten or affect me.”
Instagram blocked Ye’s account in response, prompting Ye to return to Twitter after a two-year hiatus. He proceeded to rail towards Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Instagram’s guardian firm Meta, whereas warning he was about to go off on “Jewish individuals.”
“I’m a bit sleepy tonight however after I get up I’m going demise con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” Ye tweeted on October 8.