Gift-rapped for the prez
Kanye, Kim & Don in tweetstorm
President Trump and Kanye West engaged in a bizarre Twitter love fest on Wednesday that included Kim Kardashian doing damage control for her spouse and Chance the Rapper weighing in.
“You don’t have to agree with trump but the mob can’t make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone,” West wrote amid a daylong tweetstorm in which he also declared himself “this generation’s Ford Hughes Jobs Disney.”
“I don’t agree with everything anyone does. That’s what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought.”
President Trump retweeted the post several hours later, adding, “Thank you Kanye, very cool!”
The “Gold Digger” performer then tweeted a photo of his signed, “Make America Great Again” hat — which the president also retweeted.
West then tweeted a photo of a phone showing Trump’s retweet.
West — who has previously said he would have voted for Trump, if he had actually voted — said in another tweet that he’s not “a democrat or a republican.”
“If your friend jumps off the bridge you don’t have to do the same. Ye being Ye is a fight for you to be you. For people In my life the idea of Trump is pretty much a 50 50 split but I don’t tell a Hillary supporter not to support Hillary. I love Hillary too,” he wrote in yet another post.
He later added, “Obama was in office for eight years and nothing in Chicago changed.”
At some point, West’s wife, Kim Kardashian, apparently stepped in to do some damage control.
“My wife just called me and she wanted me to make this clear to everyone. I don’t agree with everything Trump does. I don’t agree 100% with anyone but myself,” he tweeted.
Kardashian weighed in on her own account, saying she has “very different feelings” about Trump, but that West is “years ahead of his time.”
“I believe in people being able to have their own opinions, even if really different from mine. He never said he agrees with [Trump’s] politics,” she wrote.
Chance the Rapper then opined, “Black people don’t have to be democrats.”
Kanye later logged off for the night, tweeting around 7 p.m., “That’s the last tweet of the day. I did that one for my god-brother Puff. Now ima go watch the Cavs.”
The unconventional friendship between the man who co-wrote “N---as in Paris” and the one who just hosted a state visit from the leader of France has been going “a long time,” West said after a December 2016 meeting with the then-president-elect at Trump Tower.
At Wednesday’s White House press briefing, spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she didn’t think the pair had had any interaction since.