Last week rapper Kanye West met President Trump at the White House in what must be one of the most bizarre meetings in Oval Office history. Wearing his infamous, Chinese-made, Make America Great Again baseball cap, West regaled an unusually silent Donald Trump with his thoughts on masculinity, hydrogen-powered planes and the Democratic party.
In May, in another logorrhoeic display, West opined that “slavery was a choice” – a result of “mental imprisonment” – and more recently expressed a desire to see the repeal of the 13th amendment to the US constitution, which abolished slavery. West’s continued praise for Trump, a man who once referred to white supremacists as “very fine people”, has led to widespread condemnation and the accusation (from fellow rapper Snoop Dogg, among others), that West is nothing but an Uncle Tom.
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