{"id":93809,"date":"2016-12-13T15:10:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T20:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=93809"},"modified":"2016-12-13T15:12:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T20:12:44","slug":"kanye-wests-meeting-donald-trump-new-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/kanye-wests-meeting-donald-trump-new-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West&#8217;s meeting with Donald Trump was a long time coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you weren&#8217;t expecting this. That the spectacle of the Trump transition &#8212; potential cabinet picks parading before television cameras in Trump Tower, itself once the set of a reality TV show &#8212; would lead to the future commander-in-chief <a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/kanye-west-shows-trump-tower-discuss-life-donald-trump-update\/\">shaking hands and hugging Kanye West.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the rapper whose 2005 declaration that &#8220;George (W.) Bush doesn&#8217;t care about black people&#8221; was, for Bush, &#8220;an all-time low&#8221; and the worst moment of his presidency. The one who President Barack Obama called a &#8220;jackass.&#8221; Now, the embattled musician and fashion designer has re-emerged in the public eye to stand next to President-elect Donald Trump, who described the pair as &#8220;good friends. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been friends for a long time,&#8221; Trump told reporters Tuesday. &#8220;We discussed life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an apt image for this moment, as celebrity has fully melded with our politics in the most bizarre of ways.<\/p>\n<p>West has chosen to place himself in the spotlight after weeks of keeping an extremely low profile following onstage rants, a tour cancellation and hospitalization. During those rants, recorded by audience members, West declared before a booing crowd that he would have voted for Trump &#8212; had he voted at all.<\/p>\n<p>Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told reporters that West came to Trump Tower to &#8220;meet with the president-elect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There were conflicting reports about the meeting. E! News, <a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/trump-considering-kanye-west-role-administration-report\/\">citing a source close to West<\/a>, said the Trump team asked West to visit and discuss a potential role, perhaps getting involved in an &#8220;entrepreneurial leadership role&#8221; or as an &#8220;ambassador of sorts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But TMZ said West requested the meeting and that they didn&#8217;t talk about his involvement in the new administration.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kanye West&#8217;s Endgame in Trump Meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xmhNEZ1hwj\">https:\/\/t.co\/xmhNEZ1hwj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TMZ (@TMZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMZ\/status\/808752892236529664\">December 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>West stood silently in the Trump Tower lobby as reporters shouted questions. &#8220;I just want to take a picture right now,&#8221; West said, cracking a smile and giving a thumbs-up.<\/p>\n<p>The mix of celebrity and the presidency isn&#8217;t totally new. President Ronald Reagan was an actor who entertained all manner of famous people at the White House. Obama has wielded his pop-culture currency for political gain unlike any previous president, in part thanks to social-media platforms that allow the White House to circumvent traditional media.<\/p>\n<p>But if Obama&#8217;s a celebrity president, it&#8217;s more in the mold of a Beyonc\u00e9: an extremely high-profile figure whose every move is scrutinized, one whose words are carefully crafted for public consumption. He plays along with gags, but on his own terms. He is &#8220;no-drama Obama&#8221; &#8212; just as Beyonc\u00e9 does not seek notoriety through personal problems getting into the limelight.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s different. He&#8217;s more a Kanye West kind of celebrity. Both have redeemed their public images through reality TV. Trump, like West, isn&#8217;t precise with his words. He speaks off-the-cuff and sometimes makes controversial remarks. For West, that&#8217;s resulted in blowback and years spent as a pariah. For Trump, this meant bucking every political convention of what presidential candidates can say and get away with.<\/p>\n<p>West referred to this dynamic last month on stage in San Jose, when he said that during the election &#8220;it was proven that it didn&#8217;t matter what nobody had just said. It doesn&#8217;t matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>West said he &#8220;loved&#8221; Trump&#8217;s approach in the debates and that he was still thinking about running in 2020, but not &#8220;out of disrespect&#8221; to Trump.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<figure id=\"attachment_93810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93810\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-93810 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/proxy.jpg\" alt=\"proxy\" width=\"780\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/proxy.jpg 780w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/proxy-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/proxy-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/proxy-696x364.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[SCREENGRAB\/FOX NEWS]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just saying I&#8217;ve got some ideas about the way we should connect our ideas,&#8221; West said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not concerned about the idea of being president or the actual job of it. I&#8217;m concerned about putting our concept of how to do the job in a new way. And if no one will do it in that way, then I will take position in 2020 to do it myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>West &#8212; whose wife, Kim Kardashian, publicly backed Hillary Clinton &#8212; understood that vocal support for Trump would bring the kind of backlash seen shortly after on social media. He had been cautioned by those close to him to keep pro-Trump comments to himself, West said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That don&#8217;t mean that I don&#8217;t think that black lives matter. That don&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t believe in women&#8217;s rights. That don&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t believe in gay marriage,&#8221; West said of his feelings about Trump. &#8220;That don&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t believe in these things because that was the guy I would have voted for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump and West meeting makes sense if you consider the premium the president-elect places on loyalty. At a 2015 rally, Trump explained his feelings toward West, who had recently said he may consider running for president one day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll never say bad about him,&#8221; Trump said during a 2015 rally. &#8220;You want to know why? Because he loves Trump. He goes around saying Trump is my all-time hero. He says it to everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So to Kanye West, I love him. Now maybe in a a few years I might have to run against him, I don&#8217;t know, so I&#8217;ll take that back,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;But you know what, he&#8217;s been so nice to me. You people have sort of seen, I&#8217;ve been a counter-puncher. I only hit people when they hit me. Only. Kanye West has been so great. I would never say bad about him because he says such nice things about me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A year later, West&#8217;s rambling, onstage remarks &#8212; which covered everything from Beyonc\u00e9 to Mark Zuckerberg &#8212; fueled speculation about his mental state. He ended his Saint Pablo tour early and was hospitalized in Los Angeles, reportedly for stress and exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ said that West came to New York this week to interview East Coast psychiatrists to add to his West Coast medical team.<\/p>\n<p>His meeting with Trump drew criticism. The president-elect hasn&#8217;t held a press conference since July and reportedly receives intelligence briefings weekly, rather than daily. &#8220;I get it when I need it,&#8221; Trump said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donald Trump believes it is more important to meet with Kanye West than receive security briefings,&#8221; VoteVets, a veterans organization that describes itself as progressive and has been critical of Trump, said in a statement. &#8220;Our troops deserve better than that from a Commander in Chief. This is not funny, it is not OK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Trump bid goodbye to West and told him to &#8220;take care of yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;I&#8217;ll see you soon, alright?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>(c) 2016, The Washington Post \u00b7 <span class=\"ng-binding ng-scope\">Elahe Izadi<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you weren&#8217;t expecting this. That the spectacle of the Trump transition &#8212; potential cabinet picks parading before television cameras in Trump Tower, itself once the set of a reality TV show &#8212; would lead to the future commander-in-chief shaking hands and hugging Kanye West. This is the rapper whose 2005 declaration that &#8220;George (W.) 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