Kanye West Was Interviewed By Jimmy Kimmel And He Couldn’t Explain Why He Supported Trump
When he was asked why he supports US president Donald Trump, Kanye was literally lost for words.
Kanye West came on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday night for a 20-minute long interview with the host, and it was… weird. Kanye talked through how he believed we were living in a simulation and how we’re influenced by love and fear. The weirdest part, though, was when Kanye didn’t talk.
“There are families being torn apart at the border of this country. There are literally families being torn apart as a result of what this president is doing. And I think we cannot forget that whether we like his personality or not, his actions are really what matter,” Kimmel told Kanye.
“I mean, you so famously and so powerfully said George Bush doesn’t care about black people. It makes me wonder: what makes you think that Donald Trump does, or any people at all?”
Instead of responding, Kanye sat in silence for a pretty decent amount of time, until eventually Kimmel broke the ice by moving to a commercial break.
But Kanye could answer questions about love and fear.
“In this world that we live in, there’s two main motivating forces,” he said when Kimmel first brought up Kanye’s public support for Trump. “It’s love or fear. And you can’t explain love. You know, my cousin is locked up for murder. And I love him. So he did a bad thing and I still love him.”
“What it represented to me,” he continued, “is nothing about about policies because I’m not a politician like that. But it represented overcoming fear and doing what you felt, no matter what anyone said.”
He then spoke about simulations and coffee tables.
“A two-year-old jumps on a coffee table and someone says ‘that’s a coffee table, don’t jump on that'”.
“So it went from being something that makes him feel like Superman,” Kanye continued, “to something [that] he has to think about.”
“By the time you’re 40 years old, you’ve got a wall full of coffee tables calculating you into traffic, calculating you into your career choice, calculating you into this townhouse that’s not quite as big as the townhouse next to it.”
You can watch the full interview here: