Kanye West has been a vocal supporter of President Trump since the 2016 election. According to the New York Times, the rapper is headed to the Washington to have lunch with the president Buzz60
It’s the celebrity feud that will not die. Except this time, instead of Kanye West and Taylor Swift calling out one another in lyrics or taking subliminal shots in interviews, they’ve pulled opposing political 180s, seemingly swapping factions of their fanbases in the process.
Call it an unforeseen effect of the Donald Trump era that Swift and West have become representatives of America’s political divide – in a way that nobody could have ever predicted nearly a decade ago, when the two stars’ fates collided onstage at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
It was at the VMAs, of course, that West famously crashed Swift’s speech, sparking a feud that reignited in 2016 over West’s song “Famous.” And while both artists were never the most politically motivated of their peers at that point, they both had fairly distinct and opposing reputations – West as a liberal-leaning firebrand, declaring that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” on live TV in 2005, donating money to Democratic candidates and occasionally rapping about racism and social justice, and Swift as Middle America’s sweetheart, who purposefully stayed away from talking politics in her interviews.
How different things are now. In the years since West declared he was running for president at the 2015 VMAs, he’s latched on to an agitator he sees as a kindred spirit, President Donald Trump. After stepping away from public appearances
