Former President Donald Trump had arranged a private dinner with the American Rapper Kanye West, who earlier visited the Oval Office during Trump’s presidency in 2018. The dinner was organized two days before Thanksgiving, after the declaration of Donald Trump’s run for the White House and weeks of dispute for the Rapper, who was removed from Adidas, P Morgan Chase, and Balenciaga after an antisemitic statement. A couple of autocrats trolled Donald Trump.
Trump said in a Truth Social Post that he met with Kanye West so he could “help” him as he “been decimated in his business and virtually everything else” and that West “has always been good to me.”
The dinner, unfortunately, changed into a public circus with the unpredicted arrival of white supremacist and Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes, who also mentioned, along with West and his other dinner visitors, alt-right analyst Milo Yiannopoulos.
Trump’s longtime advisor told NBC that it was clear Fuentes’ attendance was part of a headline-grabbing overthrow to leverage Trump’s natural propensity for Trump and spectacle.
The advisor said, “The master troll got trolled. Kanye punked Trump.”
The plan was already set before guests took a seat at the table. Trump made his grand entrance at sharp 8 p.m. on 22nd November 2022, amassing a standing bravado and applause from everyone in the dining room. Then he sat down with West, Fuentes, and Yiannopoulos at a patio table.
Fuentes told NBC, “He greeted us, and he invited Ye into dinner, and Ye said that he wanted to bring us with him to the table. “So we walked in, and Ye took some pictures with some of the guests in the dining room, and then we sat down at the table.”
However, Trump had since refused to know who Fuentes was or his background before the diner, an assertion that Fuentes confirmed; the fallout of the meeting has drawn bitter comments within his own Republican Party and members, including two elected Republicans, Arkansas Gov.Asa Hutchinson and Rep. James Comer of Kentucky.
An anonymous Trump advisor called the situation a “f*** nightmare.” They told NBC, “If people are looking at [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis to run against Trump, here’s another reason why.”
Trump’s team has clambered to squash the media fallout from the Republicans and Democrats; Yiannopoulos seemed to be making all efforts to Trump trap.
Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating pedophilia, resulting in his resignation at Breitbart-claimed as “the architect” of the plan to glide Fuentes into West’s dinner with Donald Trump. According to Yiannopoulos, the primary motive was for Fuentes to render Trump with a raw sight of how some of his support bases see his run for president in 2024, NBC reports.
According to NBC, Yiannopoulos convinced former Trump 2016 campaign adviser Karen Giorno to head West to Mar-a-Lago. He asserted that he wanted Giorno to get West up to speed on Trump and politics and impact the dinner conversation.
Giorno said that Yiannopoulos said West would be coming with two people, including “Nick.” Yiannopoulos assured that he gave Giorno a limited piece of news and said that she was not well-known for the plan to confess to Trump.
Giorno said in an interview with NBC when she was on the way to Mar-a-Lago that, she noticed that Ye and his guests were completely not dressed for their dinner with Donald Trump.
She said she asked, “All of you are wearing jeans. Did they not tell you about the dress code?”
Ye said that he had no idea of the expected attire and that “I doubt Nick is going to get in anyway.”
She said she asked, “Nick, what’s your last name?”
After Fuentes told her his last name, Giorno said she thought, “I’m going to kill Milo.”
Kanye West allegedly tapped Yiannopoulos to be with his campaign team and said that Fuentes was working in an advisory capacity to the Rapper.
Yiannopoulos told NBC, “I wanted to show Trump the kind of talent that he’s missing out on by allowing his terrible handlers to dictate who he can and can’t hang out with.”
He said, “I also wanted to send a message to Trump that he has systematically repeatedly neglected, ignored, abused the people who love him the most, the people who put him in office, and that kind of behavior comes back to bite you in the end.”
Yiannopoulos said he arranged the evening “just to make Trump’s life miserable” as word of the dinner lay out beyond Mar-a-Lago’s gilded walls.
Fuentes supported Yiannopoulos: “I hate to say it, but the chickens are coming home to roost. You know this is the frustration with his base and with his true loyalists.”
Reports confirm that Trump was angry that Kanye West and his dinner guests had ambushed him. The dinner turned into a serious situation after Kanye West, who is designing his own presidential run in 2024, suggested to Trump that the former president would be his running mate. A video was posted after the Mar-a-Lago dinner where West was seen saying, “Trump started screaming at me at the table, telling me I was gonna lose. I mean, has that ever worked for anyone in history? I’m like, hold on, hold on; you’re talking about Ye.”
Trump posted Saturday on Truth Social, “I told him don’t run for office, a total waste of time, can’t win.” However, Trump has continuously refused to know Fuentes, who has been tagged a “white supremacist” by the Anti-Defamation League. Just before the dinner, he has yet to condemn Fuentes’ history of hate speech.
Also read: McConnell says Trump ‘unlikely’ to win after hosting Fuentes.
