Noah mocks Ye’s Oval Office rant

Trevor Noah, pictured, has picked apart Kanye West’s visit to the White House after the rap star launched a surreal monologue about his love for Donald Trump that quickly went viral.

West – or as he likes to be referred to now, Ye – had been invited to lunch to discuss prison reform but turned what would ordinarily have been a dignified White House photo-op into one of the more unusual – and profanity-laden – encounters in the Oval Office’s history.

Talking loudly and rapidly on everything from Trump’s protectionist trade policies to replace Air Force One with a hydrogen plane, blackgun crime, being married to Kim Kardashian and “infinite amounts of the universe”, West left the normally loquacious president nearly speechless.

Noah used a segment on The Daily Show to point out that Trump’s reaction to West’s diatribe was pretty similar to most people’s reaction to whenever Trump steps up to the mic, saying that it was pretty great to see “Kanye make Trump feel like Trump makes us feel every single day”.

Noah also zeroed in on Trump’s perplexed expression at the end of West’s rant, during which the US president could only manage to say: “I tell you what, that was pretty impressive, folks.”

Noah said while Trump offered West a compliment, what he was really thinking was how quickly he could get West out of there.

Noah said: “You know, Trump’s mouth was saying, ‘That was impressive’, but you could see he was thinking, ‘Is it racist if I call the cops? Is it?’”