Kanye West

<p>When even the Trump team is raising eyebrows at your circle, you know you have some reconsidering to do. That&#8217;s exactly what <a href="/profile/KanyeWest" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Kanye West</a> is dealing with after <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/602263-kanye-west-fans-shocked-over-nick-fuentes-friendship" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">hanging out with white nationalist Nick Fuentes</a>. They traveled together from LAX to Miami to meet with former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort. However, given what anonymous sources close to Trump&#8217;s camp told NBC News, Ye&#8217;s impromptu meetings aren&#8217;t good press for anyone involved.</p>



<p>Moreover, the Chicago rapper announced his visit via his recently reinstated Twitter account on Wednesday. &#8220;First time at Mar-a-Lago, rain and traffic,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Can&#8217;t believe I kept President Trump waiting and I had on jeans&#8230; yikes.&#8221;</p>



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">On his way to meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago yesterday, Kanye West was filmed walking through Miami&#39;s airport with misogynistic antisemitic white nationalist Christian fascist incel Nick Fuentes. <a href="https://t.co/903Sa56Jb5">https://t.co/903Sa56Jb5</a> <a href="https://t.co/Jn3bKtt9JE">pic.twitter.com/Jn3bKtt9JE</a></p>&mdash; Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1595491893722615808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2022</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<p>&#8220;What you guys think his response was when <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/599726-kanye-asks-trump-to-be-his-presidential-mate" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">I asked him to be my running mate</a> in 2024?&#8221; he concluded. Ye <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/602372-kanye-west-formally-announces-2024-presidential-bid" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">officially put his hat in the election ring for 2024</a> on Thursday, with a video that discussed the meet-up. Despite the respect, it seems things weren&#8217;t so pretty. He said that him and Trump got fired up at each other, and claimed that Trump dragged his ex <a href="/profile/KimKardashian" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Kim Kardashian</a>&#8217;s name through the mud. </p>



<p>However, Trump has a different view on that dinner. In a message posted to his Truth Social platform, he wrote, &#8220;This past week, Kanye West called me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about. We had dinner on Tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. The dinner was quick and uneventful. They then left for the airport.”</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="683" src="https://editor.urbanlinx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-1051893592.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-602603" srcset="https://editor.urbanlinx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-1051893592.jpg 1024w, https://editor.urbanlinx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-1051893592.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://editor.urbanlinx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-1051893592.jpg?resize=768,512 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; OCTOBER 11:  (AFP OUT) Rapper Kanye West , left, shows a picture of a plane on a phone to U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval office of the White House on October 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>



<p>According to anonymous sources from Trump&#8217;s camp, the former president had no idea who Nick Fuentes was. For those of you who don&#8217;t know either, he is a 24-year-old far-right conspiracy theorist, Holocaust denier, and white nationalist. He used to publish hateful rhetoric on sites like YouTube and Twitter, before many platforms banned him for dangerous comments.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s unclear why Fuentes and Ye have linked, or for how long. Yet Trump&#8217;s team is apparently <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/602217-shaun-king-slams-kanye-wests-campaign-team" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">wary of their profiles</a>. These anonymous sources (allegedly two advisers to the campaign and one non-affiliate at the dinner) called the public meet-up a &#8220;f***ing nightmare.&#8221;</p>



<p>&#8220;If people are looking at [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis to run against Trump, here’s another reason why.&#8221; As such, these comments suggest that conversing with the &#8220;I Love It&#8221; star and Fuentes will hurt Trump&#8217;s 2024 chances. </p>



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<p>Additionally, they pushed back on Trump&#8217;s obliviousness to the ordeal. While he did not know Fuentes, sources say that one of the visitors was Karen Giorno, the Trump campaign&#8217;s Florida director in 2016. According to these insiders, Trump knew her by &#8220;name and sight.&#8221;</p>



<p>In the aforementioned campaign video, Kanye West said that Trump was impressed with Fuentes and that he was a &#8220;loyalist.&#8221; Interestingly, Kanye also detailed how Trump reacted when asked to be Ye&#8217;s running mate.</p>



<p>&#8220;When Trump started basically screaming at me at the table telling me I was gonna lose, I mean, has that ever worked for anyone in history? I’m like, ‘Woah woah, hold on, hold on, Trump. You’re talking to Ye.’”</p>



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<p>Stay tuned to HotNewHipHop for the latest on the absolutely insane 2024 presidential race and Kanye West&#8217;s latest bombshells.</p>



<p><a href="https://www.tmz.com/2022/11/26/kanye-west-traveling-white-nationalist-nick-fuentes-antisemitic/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">[via]</a> <a href="https://www.complex.com/life/trump-team-says-kanye-nick-fuentes-dinner-is-nightmare-for-2024-presidential-bid" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">[via]</a></p>