Former President Donald Trump has reportedly lashed out at Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, over the dinner the two had with white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence last week.
Trump dined with the two on Nov. 22, leading to much outcry from the public over their meet-up after Ye made several antisemitic remarks in October. The dinner between the three of them had been “a setup” that left Trump “totally blindsided,” a source told NBC News.
“He tried to f*** me,” an unidentified confidant reported Trump saying. “He’s crazy. He can’t beat me.”
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During their dinner, Ye reportedly criticized Trump for not doing enough to help pay the legal bills of those arrested in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, while also telling Trump he might run for president in the 2024 election and inviting him to serve as his vice president, all of which angered Trump, according to two dinner participants.
Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right but anti-Trump advocate who is currently serving as a political adviser to Ye, told the outlet that he was “the architect” of the plan to have Fuentes travel with Ye in the hopes that Fuentes would be invited to join. Yiannopoulos claimed he orchestrated the plan “just to make Trump’s life miserable” because news outlets would jump on the story of Trump dining with Fuentes.
“I wanted to show Trump the kind of talent that he’s missing out on by allowing his terrible handlers to dictate who he can and can’t hang out with,” Yiannopoulos told NBC News. “I also wanted to send a message to Trump that he has systematically repeatedly neglected, ignored, abused the people who love him the most, the people who put him in office, and that kind of behavior comes back to bite you in the end.”
Trump has defended his dinner on a Truth Social post, claiming that it was “quick and uneventful” and that Ye “expressed no anti-Semitism” while appreciating “all of the nice things he said about me on ‘Tucker Carlson.'” He also added that he did not know who Fuentes was, a statement Fuentes confirmed.
Multiple Republicans, including Gov. Brian Kemp, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and former Vice President Mike Pence have criticized Trump for his dinner with Fuentes. Pence suggested that Trump should apologize for the dinner.
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The dinner was held only one week after Trump announced that he will be running in 2024 for president. So far, he is the only candidate to announce that he is running, with other Republicans rumored to run including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Pence, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
