Trump praises Kanye for ‘SNL’ rant as rapper takes heat & fails to drop album

"This represents good and America becoming whole again," the rapper tweeted Sunday.

Sep 30, 2018

 

Donald Trump tweeted his approval for the artist formerly known as Kanye West‘s Saturday Night Live performance Sunday afternoon, noting that “West, who put on a MAGA hat after the show (despite being told “no”), was great. He’s leading the charge!”

Kanye, now known as Ye, was booed during his off-air pro-Trump rant at the end of the show, following his performance of “Ghost Town.”

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Ye helped kick off the 44th season premiere of the sketch comedy series, and as TheGrio previously reported, fans didn’t know what to make of their “idol dancing around dressed as a water bottle” during his “I Love It” collab with Lil Pump for the first musical performance of the night.

Chris Rock, who was in the audience, recorded an Instagram story of Ye’s post-show rant.

In the clips, Ye is singing when he points to someone in the audience and says, “You see, they’re laughing at me. You heard ‘em, they scream at me.” He added angrily, “They bullied me. They bullied me backstage. They said don’t go out there with that hat on.”

Sporting a red Make America Great Again hat with the entire cast of SNL standing behind him onstage—many visibly annoyed — he begins rambling about Blacks and Democrats.

“I wanna cry right now, Black man in America, supposed to keep what you’re feelin’ inside right now…”

In the background of the video, Rock can be heard laughing and saying “oh, my God.”

“The Blacks want always Democrats… you know it’s like the plan they did, to take the fathers out the home and put them on welfare… does anybody know about that? That’s a Democratic plan,” West continued. “There’s so many times I talk to, like, a white person about this and they say, ‘How could you like Trump? He’s racist.’ Well, uh, if I was concerned about racism I would’ve moved out of America a long time ago,” he continued, as the audience booed.

Undaunted by the criticism, Ye took to Twitter on Sunday and posted an image of himself sporting the cap again, writing in part, “[t]his represents good and America becoming whole again.”

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1046466533973590016

Ye, who has enraged many of his core supporters because he’s an avid Trump supporter, was a last-minute SNL replacement for Ariana Grande. Trump said of the show following his performance: “Like many, I don’t watch Saturday Night Live (even though I past hosted it) – no longer funny, no talent or charm,” Trump tweeted. “It is just a political ad for the Dems.”

https://twitter.com/jelani9/status/1046427265050038272

Ye also took heat for failing to release his album, YHANDI, which he promised to release Saturday night.

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1045326579730006016

But he apparently changed his mind, according to a tweet from XXL, preferring not to compete with Lil Wayne‘s The Carter V.

His stans took note:

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