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West meets Trump
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 14 December 2016
Kanye West met with Donald Trump at Trump Tower yesterday. Though before you start speculating that West is about to fill a role in the President-Elect’s administration, or perform at his inauguration ceremony, Trump insisted that the pair were meeting as “friends, just friends”.
Briefly posing for pictures shortly after their meeting, Trump told reporters that he and West had been friends for “a long time” and that they had “discussed life”. West refused to answer any questions, saying that he was just stopping “to take a picture”.
Shortly before being hospitalised for exhaustion last month, West told an audience at one of his shows that he had not voted in the recent US presidential election, but would have voted for Trump if he had. This earned him much criticism, as did his meeting yesterday. But West insisted that engaging with Trump was important in a series of tweets later in the day.
West tweeted: “I wanted to meet with Trump today to discuss multicultural issues. These issues included bullying, supporting teachers, modernising curriculums, and violence in Chicago. I feel it is important to have a direct line of communication with our future President if we truly want change”.
That sounds like a bit more than “friends discussing life”, so who knows if Trump actually took any of it in. However, if not, West could always address all those issues with his own presidential bid. Although, having previously promised he would stand in 2020, he now seems to have pushed it back to 2024. Presumably so best bud Don can have his second term in charge.
