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Kanye West denies being “stumped” by Jimmy Kimmel

By | Published on Monday 13 August 2018

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Kanye West has denied being “stumped” by a question from that Jimmy Kimmel, about his support for US president Donald Trump, in an interview last week.

“You so famously and so powerfully said ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people'”, said Kimmel. “It makes me wonder, what makes you think that Donald Trump does?”

After a period of silence, Kimmel announced a commercial break, bringing an end to the interview. This led many people to assume that West did not have an answer to the question, but that is not so, the rapper says.

“On Jimmy Kimmel we had a great time having a dialogue”, he tweeted. “I’m reading that I was ‘stumped’ by a question. Let me clarify the click bait. I wasn’t stumped. I wasn’t given a chance to answer the question”.

“The question was so important I took time to think”, he continued. “And then I was hit with the ‘let’s go to commercial break’. That interview showed strong personalities with different opinions having a civil conversation”.

Indeed, to be fair to West, he had spent most of the interview answering questions challenging his worldview relatively thoughtfully and calmly, even if his answers did show a tendency to ignore certain important details. And with that final question, which came at the end of a weighty statement from Kimmel, he was given just three seconds before the show cut to adverts.

That said, in his response to the claims that he’d not be able to answer the question, he didn’t offer an answer to said query in order to prove otherwise. Perhaps he’s still thinking.



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