Pity poor Kanye West, if it takes Donald Trump to make him feel like a man again | Hadley Freeman

Their wail of aggrieved masculinity is a call to women to keep fighting for their rights

I’m a long-term, and by this point longsuffering, Kanye West fan, and part of what’s made him so fascinating is that he, more than any other celebrity, has always caught the zeitgeist. Hell, the man even married a Kardashian, and you can’t get more zeitgeisty than that. Or so I thought, until he popped into the Oval Office last week. The man formerly known as Kanye, who once told the world “George Bush doesn’t care about black people”, is now known as Ye and going around hugging Donald Trump, a man who spent years insisting the first black president wasn’t actually American. Perhaps “Kan” resigned from his name in embarrassment?

“I’m married now into a family that, you know… not a lot of male energy going on,” he said, by way of an explanation for his inexplicable support for Jabba the Trump. “[Hillary Clinton’s] campaign ‘I’m With Her’ just didn’t make me feel… like a guy that could play catch with his son. It was something about when I put this [Make America Great Again] hat on, it made me feel like Superman.”

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