West no longer talking politics?
Kim Kardashian isn’t exactly hostile to Donald Trump these days, given that she happily posed with the controversial president in the Oval Office in June after he gave the reality TV star something she asked for: commuting the life sentence of former drug trafficker Alice Marie Johnson.
But Kardashian, a master of marketing, must have realized that it didn’t help her brand to have her husband, Kanye West, repeatedly praising Trump’s “dragon energy” or denouncing the 13th Amendment, which ended slavery, in rambling rants on national TV or on social media.
But more than that, Kardashian may be worried about her husband’s wellbeing, concerned that he’s become “unhinged,” Us Weekly reported Wednesday morning.
“Kanye West may be pushing Kim Kardashian to the breaking point,” Us Weekly reported. After West’s rant on “Saturday Night Live” and then his “head-scratching” visit to the Oval Office earlier this month, “Kim is getting a bit worried.”
The Us Weekly report was released fewer than 24 hours after the rapper and fashion designer took to Twitter to issue a series of tweets, vowing that he would stop talking about politics — including Trump, presumably — and would focus just on his creative endeavors. He also expressed concern that his fame and his pro-Trump comments had been coopted by those spreading “messages” he doesn’t believe in.
Could West’s decision to shut up about politics have anything to his wife’s reported concerns? Kardashian has repeatedly defended West’s right to express his political views, even if she doesn’t always agree with them. She famously declared on Twitter in May, “I will always ride for my man!” But she and the rest of her family, notably mother and manager Kris Jenner, can’t have been immune to criticism by West fans and prominent artists in the African-American community.
They have voiced concerns that West’s “Make America Great Again” support and proclamations about slavery being “a choice” is a betrayal of their history of persecution and discrimination. This past week, Jenner publicly wished her son-in-law would pipe down, saying on Ellen DeGeneres’ show, “I would rather he share some of that stuff privately. … You’ve known him a long time, I’ve known him a long time, and he does have different sides to him. And this is a side that nobody’s seen before.”