Trump praises Kanye West after latest antisemitic rant

“He was really high on a guy named Donald Trump.”

The twice-impeached ex-commander-in-chief has recently been embroiled in controversy himself after he told American Jews to “get their act together” in a social media post on Sunday and accused them of being ungrateful for what he described as his strong support of Israel. 

Trump’s praise comes two weeks after Ye said Jared Kushner, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law, only brokered the 2020 Abraham Accords “to make money”, and a post to social media saying he was going “Death con 3” on Jewish people.

Trump’s comments also follow an interview between Ye and former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on the little-known NewsNation on Monday.

In that interview, done from the backseat of a dimly lit car, the billionaire artist and shoe mogul claimed that his “life was threatened by my Jewish managers, by my Jewish lawyer, by my Jewish accountant.”

Ye also mentioned that he doesn’t believe in the term “antisemitism”, and that “black people are also Jew[ish], I classify as a Jew, also, so I can’t actually be an antisemite.

“I don’t like the term antisemitic, it’s been used for people specifically in my industry to get away with murder, sometimes literally.”

He went further to say, “The Jewish underground media mafia already started attacking me,” 

Ye insisted, “We’re not going to be owned by the Jewish media anymore” and warned “these people” could end the career of anyone who isn’t aligned with “the agenda”

The Anti-Defamation League has condemned both West and Trump for promoting centuries-old tropes about Jewish power, wealth and disloyalty.