White House Ducks When Asked If Donald Trump Will Invite Kanye West To White House

April 25, 2018

Hours after Kanye West tweeted his love and admiration of President Donald Trump, followed by a clarification he said came from his wife, the White House got asked if a Kanye visit was in the works.

”Rap superstar Kanye West has been in the news lately for supporting the president and expressing his admiration for the president,” a correspondent told White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders at the daily briefing, in case she wasn’t certain which Kanye West he was referencing.

“Covering all range of comments today,” Sanders grinned, eliciting giggles in the hall.

“I’m curious whether the president has reached out to Kanye West and whether he would be willing to meet with him at the White House,” the reporter continued, undaunted.

‘I don’t know of any conversations that they have had over the last week or so,” Sanders answered, using her trademark dodge. “I’ll keep you posted if that changes any time,” she added, don’t-hold-your-breath-ily.

That triggered muttering in the room, causing Sanders quickly to add, “Sorry, I know they met during transition,” President-elect Trump and Kanye having famously met, and posed, at Trump Tower in December of ’16:

“That’ the only meeting I’m aware of that’s taken place or conversation – before everyone has a meltdown and thinks that we had a meeting last week,” she snarked.

Hours before she took the question, West full-throat-tweeted his “love” of Trump, praising his “dragon energy” and calling him “my brother”:

You don't have to agree with trump 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 WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018

If your friend jumps off the bridge you don't have to do the same. Ye being Ye is a fight for you to be you. For people In my life the idea of Trump is pretty much a 50 50 split but I don't tell a Hillary supporter not to support Hillary
I love Hillary too.

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018

Apparently after hearing from wife Kim Kardashian, Kanye clarified:

my wife just called me and she wanted me to make this clear to everyone. I don't agree with everything Trump does. I don't agree 100% with anyone but myself.

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018

Previous night, West tweeted “2024,” which seemed to be by way of reminding people of his political aspirations. Kanye had first announced his intention to make a run at the White House in a 2015 MTV Awards announcement; back then he said he was going to run in 2020, but he changed that to 2024, apparently after doing the math and realizing Trump would be running again that year:

2024

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018

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