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Kanye West is Very Sad and Says Liberals Are Bullying Trump Supporters
Kanye West got a lot of attention last year for his public embrace of President Donald Trump, and in a new interview he says that Trump supporters are being bullied by liberals.
The Daily Beast has an exclusive on West’s interview with David Letterman for the late night veteran’s Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.
The in-depth interview with West touched upon a great many subjects, per the Daily Beast report, but at one point West himself brought up the president in the context of talking about the #MeToo movement.
“This is like my thing with Trump—we don’t have to feel the same way, but we have the right to feel what we feel,” he said.
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He apparently told Letterman he didn’t actually vote for Trump, and after Letterman asked him about voter suppression, West defended Trump supporters and said liberals are bullying them:
Instead of addressing Letterman’s point, Kanye turns around and expresses sympathy for Trump voters who are “treated like enemies of America because that’s what they felt.” After Letterman makes his forceful case against the idea that Trump is some sort of savior to those who voted for him, Kanye takes a long pause.
“Have you ever been beat up in your high school for wearing the wrong hat?” he asks eventually. Asked who is doing the bulk of the bullying in America right now, he replies, “Liberals bully people who are Trump supporters!”
Twitter seemed to disagree with the rapper:
I treat Trump supporters according to their actions. Nothing more, and nothing less.
If they want to act un-American I will certainly treat them accordingly.— Scott Player (@Sajplayer) May 25, 2019
No, the conservatives are doing the bullying. Please, Kanye probably don't know what's going on.
— Denise M Robertson (@deniser61212487) May 25, 2019
Has this fool seen how Trump supporters treat everyone that is not a Trump supporter … The problem with instigators is that they're only aware of what happens to them (but forget that it is as a result of their actions).
— Rap Professor … (MMgt) (@molisem) May 25, 2019
@kanyewest Most @realDonaldTrump supporters are racists and cruel so what do expect! If they want people not to treat them like enemies, then they need to learn to be kind. Is it that hard? Wow. Glad Karma is real so any cruel people get from the universe the justice due them.
— Judith Davis (@Writerjudy) May 25, 2019
— Niecy (@niecy281) May 25, 2019
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