Kanye West has launched into an expletive-filled rant in the Oval Office as he lavished praise on US President Donald Trump.
Wearing a Make America Great Again hat “made me feel like Superman”, he said.
West also banged his fist on the Oval Office’s famed Resolute Desk and discussed his bipolar diagnosis.
At the end of the 10-minute monologue, during which Mr Trump had nodded in approval, the president said: “That was quite something.”
West replied: “It was from the soul. I just channelled it.”
“I love this guy right here,” West said, walking behind the desk to hug the seated president, who said: “That’s really nice.”
On the Trump hat and Hillary Clinton
During a 10-minute monologue that ranged from prison reform to manufacturing, politics and the universe, West said: “They tried to scare me, my friends to not wear this hat, but this hat, it gives me power in a way.
“You know, my dad and my mum separated, so I didn’t have a lot of male energy in my home.”
He continued: “I love Hillary, I love everyone, right.
Kanye West has launched into an expletive-filled rant in the Oval Office as he lavished praise on US President Donald Trump.
Wearing a Make America Great Again hat “made me feel like Superman”, he said.
West also banged his fist on the Oval Office’s famed Resolute Desk and discussed his bipolar diagnosis.
At the end of the 10-minute monologue, during which Mr Trump had nodded in approval, the president said: “That was quite something.”
West replied: “It was from the soul. I just channelled it.”
“I love this guy right here,” West said, walking behind the desk to hug the seated president, who said: “That’s really nice.”
On the Trump hat and Hillary Clinton
During a 10-minute monologue that ranged from prison reform to manufacturing, politics and the universe, West said: “They tried to scare me, my friends to not wear this hat, but this hat, it gives me power in a way.
“You know, my dad and my mum separated, so I didn’t have a lot of male energy in my home.”
He continued: “I love Hillary, I love everyone, right.
On a future presidential run
Mr Trump was asked by a journalist if West could be a future presidential candidate, and the president replied: “Could very well be.”
West told reporters: “Let’s stop worrying about the future, all we have is today.
“Trump is on his hero’s journey right now.”
“You might not have expected a crazy [expletive] like Kanye running up to support.”
On schools
“Sometimes people say, ‘This kid has ADD [Attention Deficit Disorder], this kid has ADD.'”
“You don’t have ADD, school is boring.
“It is boring, it’s not as exciting as this,” he said gesturing towards his mobile phone.
At one point he typed in his mobile phone password, in full few of the assembled news cameras.
On Chicago
West was ostensibly at the lunch to discuss crime in Chicago, his hometown.
He asked Mr Trump to pardon the leader of a notorious Chicago street gang, and called on the president to build “Trump factories” in Chicago.
At one point he did disagree with Mr Trump, saying that he considers police “stop-and-frisk” to be unhelpful.
Mr Trump has called upon Chicago police to institute the practice, which allows random searches.
“I didn’t mean to put you on blast like that, bro,” West told Mr Trump.
On North Korea
“I like the North Korea,” West said.
“You stopped the war,” he told Mr Trump.
“Day One, solved one of his biggest problems. We solved one of the biggest problems.”
West on his first White House visit
West visited Mr Trump at his eponymous Manhattan skyscraper in 2016, a month after he won the election, but this was the rapper’s first trip to the White House. And the president asked him what it felt like.
West’s wife, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, has made two visits to the White House.
During her first trip there, she successfully argued to have a grandmother’s prison sentence commuted by Mr Trump.
Source: BBC
