Kanye West Says Trump Screamed at Him Over a Potential 2024 Run

• Kanye West stated former President Donald Trump screamed at him throughout dinner at Mar-a-Lago.
• The rapper stated Trump informed him Ye would lose in 2024 if he ran for president.
• Ye talked about assembly Trump in Florida in a Thursday video dubbed “Mar-a-Lago debrief.”

Ye, the rapper previously referred to as Kanye West, stated former President Donald Trump began “screaming” at him throughout dinner on the Mar-a-Lago resort and informed the rapper he would lose if he have been to run in 2024.

“When Trump began principally screaming at me on the desk telling me I used to be going to lose, I imply has that ever labored for anybody in historical past?” the rapper stated in a video he tweeted on Thursday evening.

“I am like whoa maintain on, maintain on, maintain on. You are speaking to Ye,” he stated within the video. The clip was one in every of a number of movies posted by the rapper on Thursday with the slogan “YE24.”

—ye (@kanyewest) November 25, 2022

Ye dubbed the video a “Mar-a-Lago debrief,” throughout which he gave his aspect of the story about what occurred throughout a go to to Trump’s Florida residence on Tuesday.

The rapper stated Trump was “perturbed” by Ye asking the previous president to be his running mate in 2024.

“I believe that was like, decrease on the listing of issues that caught him off guard,” Ye added.

Ye additionally spoke briefly within the video about his political opinions. “Since we all know, and all of the Christians in America that love Trump know that Trump is a conservative, we’ll demand that you just maintain all insurance policies on to the Bible,” he stated.

The rapper additionally claimed Trump stated one thing seemingly disagreeable about Ye’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian.

“You’ll be able to inform her I stated that,” Trump stated to Ye, in keeping with the rapper. The video censored the precise phrases that Ye alleged Trump stated about Kardashian.

Nonetheless, Ye appeared offended by the remark.

“And I used to be pondering like, that is the mom of my kids,” the rapper stated in his video.

Ye’s video on Thursday comes simply days after he said he requested Trump to be his 2024 working mate. Nonetheless, Ye has yet to file the basic paperwork to become a candidate — unlike Trump, who introduced his 2024 bid on November 15. 

A consultant for Trump and an legal professional representing Ye didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s requests for remark.

The rapper was seen at Mar-a-Lago with white nationalist live-streamer Nick Fuentes on Tuesday, per Politico and The Daily Beast. Fuentes is well-known for being a participant on the 2017 white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.

Ye ran for president below the banner of the “Birthday Get together” in 2020. He only appeared on the ballot in 12 states, having missed the deadline for the others. He collected round 60,000 votes out of an estimated 160 million, per the BBC.

The rapper has been a lightning rod for controversy, notably after he went on several anti-Semitic rants. Major brands equivalent to Adidas, Balenciaga, and Vogue reduce ties with Ye amid the debacle, bringing his estimated net worth down from $1.5 billion to $400 million.

A bombshell Rolling Stone report this week additionally lined a slew of accusations from Yeezy collaborators about troubling habits from the rapper. This included an allegation from unnamed Yeezy employees that Ye screened an explicit video of Kardashian during a staff meeting in 2018.