Kanye West Nonetheless Talks To Trump & Justifies Voting For Him – Hollywood Life

Kanye West and former President Donald Trump are nonetheless on talking phrases. Regardless of Ye, 45, working in opposition to Trump, 76, within the 2020 election, the rapper admitted that he spoke to the previous president throughout an upcoming interview with Piers Morgan on the broadcaster’s Uncensored present. Kanye mentioned that he spoke to Trump after he was kicked off of Instagram and Twitter for making antisemitic remarks, just like how the Republican had been kicked off following the January 6 assault on the Capitol.

Kanye advised Piers that he “was speaking to Trump a few days in the past,” and he relayed what he advised him. “You understand, I had 277 million followers, and the following day I had nothing,” Trump allegedly mentioned to the rapper. Kanye then referred to as out Fb founder Mark Zuckerberg and his firm Meta. “Mark Zuckerberg thinks he’s the federal government. These tech corporations really feel they’re extra highly effective than the US Authorities to the purpose of truly kicking the precise President of the USA off of an American social media platform. That is the world we dwell in,” he mentioned.

In addition to admitting that he and Trump nonetheless discuss, Yeezy additionally recalled the pushback that he received for supporting Trump when the billionaire first introduced his run for workplace in 2015. Though Kanye didn’t publicly present his assist for him till after the 2016 election. “Everybody that was round me and my business, within the leisure business, advised me that my life can be over, I’d be on the improper facet of historical past. I’ve even had threats to my life for sporting the Trump hat,” he mentioned.

Kanye additionally claimed that his supported ended up “destroying my household,” referencing his divorce from Kim Kardashian. Whereas Kanye had mentioned that he didn’t vote in 2016, he nonetheless offered a justification for voting for Trump as a Black American. “However an individual is assessed, that has been provided that title in America, as Black, in America that I’m supposed to remain in a block of a vote. You by no means heard the time period white vote. So why is your time period Black vote?” he requested. “It sounds simply as racist as a Black consuming fountain.”

Piers introduced the interview in a social media put up on Thursday, October 20. Within the wide-ranging interview, Kanye additionally spoke about his controversial remarks, relating to the homicide of George Floyd. Floyd’s household has introduced that they’re suing the rapper for $250 million. The household introduced that they have been suing him after Kanye had made feedback in an interview, falsely saying Floyd had died of a fentanyl overdose. He additionally additional spoke about his “White Lives Matter” shirts, which he debuted at a Paris Vogue Week occasion.

Watch Piers Morgan Uncensored’s Kanye ‘Ye’ West particular tonight on TalkTV at 8pm.  Discover TalkTV on Sky 526, Virgin Media 606, Freeview 237, Freesat 217 and Sky Glass 508, dwell and on demand on the TalkTV app, streaming providers and at Speak.TV.