Donald Trump apparently had some fairly bizarre concepts throughout his presidency about what constitutes “national unity.”
On Tuesday’s episode of “Watch What Happens Live,” Alyssa Farah Griffin ― who served as White Home communications director from April to December 2020 ― claimed Trump needed “to unify the country” throughout her tenure by internet hosting one of the divisive entertainers in current historical past.
Griffin supplied up her account when a caller requested about her “wildest” expertise on the job.
“This is going to be dark,” she warned. “To be honest, one day he wanted to have Kanye West come and do a church service on the White House lawn to ‘unify the country,’ and I can think of few things less unifying than that.”
“We were like, ‘Not the time or place, sir,’” Griffin continued.
The Chicago rapper now often called Ye began holding “Sunday Services” in 2019, but it surely’s not particularly probably he would’ve united the nation, as he was already selling Trump regularly as a brand new MAGA figurehead.
Ye famously endorsed Trump in 2016, posing for pictures with him at Trump Tower in New York Metropolis forward of a non-public assembly. The Grammy winner went on to don a “Make America Great Again” hat for years to return, and was invited to the White Home in 2018.
Ye informed Trump on the time that he was “on his hero’s journey right now,” however later stated he didn’t vote for Trump, or anybody else, in 2016. Ye claimed in 2020 that he not supported Trump.
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Nevertheless, that didn’t cease Ye from having dinner with Trump as lately as 2022, even after the previous president publicly mocked Ye for what he known as the rapper’s “loony tendencies.” Ye has been open about his experiences residing with bipolar dysfunction.
Ye launched a presidential bid of his personal in 2020, however solely garnered an estimated 60,000 votes. In 2022, he induced a furor by espousing antisemitic views in quite a few interviews, subsequently shedding a fortune after numerous firms and different events distanced themselves from him. White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes was additionally current on the rapper’s 2022 dinner with Trump. (Ye finally issued a Hebrew-language apology for his antisemitic feedback.)
Trump, the 2024 Republican nominee for president, is about to debate Vice President Kamala Harris, the potential new Democratic nominee, later this summer time.
