Aides for former President Donald Trump are scrambling to revive a measure his administration had used to keep him from embarrassing himself after the now-infamous pre-Thanksgiving dinner with antisemitic rapper Kanye West and white nationalist Nick Fuentes caused a media firestorm. And Trump is upset at West for the bad press.

You may remember that just two years ago, West launched a third-party presidential bid in the hopes of siphoning off votes from Joe Biden to help the then-president be reelected to a second term. But The Independent reports one source who spoke to NBC News is now saying Trump is livid at West.

“He tried to f**K me. He’s crazy. He can’t beat me,” Trump fumed, referring to West’s recently announced intentions to run for president in 2024.

As I reported Wednesday, West brought Fuentes, a Holocaust denier, to the dinner, which was originally supposed to be between Trump and West, in the aftermath of the rapper’s expulsion by several business partners who no longer wished to be associated with him following his racist remarks on social media and elsewhere.

And while Fuentes fervently supports Trump, he wasn’t the only avid follower/surprise guest to attend the dinner. Ye (West’s preferred name nowadays) also brought former Breitbart News staffer and online provocateur Milo Yiannopolous and ex-Trump campaign aide Karen Giorno.

The resulting bipartisan outrage that Trump supped with such horrendously controversial people has caused Trump’s aides to reinstitute the practice of making sure that at least one staffer from his presidential campaign is constantly at his side. And this is the same arrangement practiced in the Trump White House to prevent him from meeting with potential public relations nightmares.

But it’s been a different scenario at Mar-a-Lago, where Trump generally walked freely among people who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly to meet the former president.

As for West, it seems like he’s doing whatever he can to end his own career since he showed up on Infowars host Alex Jones’s show wearing a ski mask and saying he “likes Hitler.” West has admitted he suffers from bipolar disorder and is clearly mentally ill, and Fuentes and Yiannopolous are undoubtedly taking advantage of this, which is terribly sad.

Alex Jones: 'I don't like Nazis'
Kanye: "I like Hitler"

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— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) December 1, 2022

West clearly needs a therapeutic intervention. He needs to be conserved and treated. He’s giving off sparks and likely won’t get better until health professionals step in.

As for Trump, no one will ever be able to convince me that he didn’t know that Fuentes is a hateful racist and anti-Semite. Fuentes is also one of the key organizers of the Stop The Steal movement which led to deadly chaos during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

One last note: Experts have noted that mental illness does not cause racism or anti-Semitism. But if there’s any good news to come out of this, it’s opened a conversation that sheds more light on bipolar disorder.

And that’s never a bad thing.