Kanye West has had plenty of nice things to say about PresidentDonald Trumpin recent years, but that doesn’t mean he’s a Republican, according to wifeKim Kardashian West.
“He doesn’t represent either side,”she toldVoguefor the magazine’s May cover story. “But he doesn’t want to be told what heshouldbe. It can be confusing. I get it. The one thing that I respect so much is that he is who he is, no matter what anyone tries to tell him to do.”
She said she’s had to learn how to move past it all.
“I can be sitting there crying: OH, MY GOD! TAKE OFF THE RED HAT! Because he really is the sweetest person with the biggest heart. I stopped caring, though,” she toldVogue. “Because I used to care so much. I was making it such an issue in our relationship. And in mylife. It gave me so much anxiety.”
(Elsewhere in the story, Kim, 38, reiterated, “I shareeveryopinion that I have and let him know when I think something’s wrong.”)
“So grateful to @realDonaldTrump, Jared Kushner & to everyone who has showed compassion & contributed countless hours to this important moment for Ms. Alice Marie Johnson,” Kim tweeted afterward. “Her commutation is inspirational & gives hope to so many others who are also deserving of a second chance.”
Husband Kanye, 41, has not been as political — in terms of policy — but has been happy to spend time with the historically divisive Trump, who is both beloved and despised.
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Speaking of his fondness for Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hats, Kanye said, “It was something about when I put this hat on, it made me feel like superman. You made a superman. That’s my favorite super hero. And you made a superman cape for me.”
Kanye said then that he “looks up” to Trump as one of the “American industry guys” who helped remind him of his masculinity.
“You know, my dad and my mom separated so I didn’t have a lot of male energy in my home and also I’m married to a family that, you know — not a lot of male energy going on,” he said. “It’s beautiful though. But there’s times where, you know, it’s something about, you know — I love Hillary. I love everyone, right? But the campaign [slogan] ‘I’m with her’ just didn’t make me feel as a guy, that didn’t get to see my dad all the time, like a guy that could play catch with his son.”
Days earlier Kanye had hostedSaturday Night Livewhere he wore a MAGA hat that he said he’d been advised not to keep on.
“They bullied me backstage,” he claimed.
All of this was after he tweeted last April: “You don’t have to agree with trump [sic] but the mob can’t make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone. I don’t agree with everything anyone does. That’s what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought.”
Kanye previously visited with Trump at Trump Tower in New York after the 2016 election.
“We’ve been friends for a long time,” Trump said at the time.
source: people.com
