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Kanye West wasted no time in selling his 2024 run for president as he was noticed rocking “Ye24″ gear while visiting a church in Los Angeles on Saturday, Nov. 26. The “Famous” rapper, who misplaced billions after companies lower ties with him for making antisemitic remarks, donned a black, orange and white wind breaker with the hood up as he stored a dour look on his face arriving on the church.
The outing comes only some days after Kanye was condemned for his go to to Mar-A-Lago on Tuesday, the place he dined with far-right activist Nick Fuentes and Donald Trump. While Kim Kardashian’s ex made headlines for asking Trump to be his working mate on the gathering, which he revealed in a tweet, it was the corporate he stored with Fuentes that drew essentially the most criticism for each himself and for the previous President.
“We strongly condemn the virulent antisemitism of Kanye West and Nick Fuentes and call on all political leaders to reject their messages of hate and refuse to meet with them,” Matt Brooks, govt director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, instructed The Washington Post on Friday.
Even a few of Trump’s standard allies spoke out in opposition to the assembly. David M. Friedman, who served as Trump’s ambassador to Israel, didn’t maintain again when he slammed his former boss, tweeting that the forty fifth president was “better than this.” He added, “Even a social visit from an antisemite like Kanye West and human scum like Nick Fuentes is unacceptable. I urge you to throw those bums out, disavow them and relegate them to the dustbin of history where they belong.”
Former New Jersey Chris Christie, who has been in Trump’s nook fairly a bit, went thus far to inform The New York Times that it was “another example of an awful lack of judgment from Donald Trump, which, combined with his past poor judgments, make him an untenable general election candidate for the Republican Party in 2024.”
Trump denied figuring out Fuentes and stated that he was not conscious Kanye had invited the Holocaust denier alongside. “This past week, Kanye West called me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago,” the Trump posted on Truth Social, in keeping with The Washington Post. “Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about.” Kanye has but to reply to the criticism.
Fuentes, who has been banned on all main social media platforms, has a historical past of controversial feedback, together with his skepticism in regards to the Holocaust, which will be seen right here. On his YouTube present referred to as “America First,” Fuentes described Jewish folks as “a hostile tribal elite” and referred to as the state of Israel “the anti-Christ,” per Newsweek. The outlet additionally reported that Fuentes took to the Telegram app earlier this month to say, “Jews have too much power in our society. Christians should have all the power, everyone else very little.”
Meanwhile, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, joined within the name of condemnation. “For Donald Trump to dine with notorious white supremacists and unrepentant bigots, I think at a minimum it’s clarifying. He is trying to make America hate again and running arguably the most unapologetic white nationalist presidential campaign we’ve ever seen,” he instructed CNN.