{"id":392058,"date":"2019-01-08T12:12:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T11:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/kanye-west-reaffirms-love-of-donald-trump-in-first-2019-tweets-rt-usa-news\/"},"modified":"2019-01-08T12:12:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T11:12:59","slug":"kanye-west-reaffirms-love-of-donald-trump-in-first-2019-tweets-rt-usa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/kanye-west-reaffirms-love-of-donald-trump-in-first-2019-tweets-rt-usa-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West reaffirms love of Donald Trump in first 2019 tweets \u2014 RT USA News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/thumbnail\/5c2cde71dda4c8080a8b45b0.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Kanye West\u2019s on-again, off-again love affair with US President Donald Trump seems to be on again for 2019, as the controversial rapper redeclared his support for the president in a New Year\u2019s Day tweetstorm.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u201cTrump all day,\u201d<\/em> West wrote in the first post, adding a series of green dragon emojis and following it up with a tweet that read: <em>\u201cJust so in 2019 you know where I stand.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The rapper went on to explain that his favorite \u2018Make America Great Again\u2019 hat (which he has referred to as his<em> \u201csuperman cape\u201d<\/em>) represents the fact that <em>\u201cpeople can\u2019t tell me who I should do (sic) because I\u2019m black.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That tweet seems to have disappeared, however, being replaced by one in which West vowed that he would perform wearing the \u2018MAGA\u2019 hat in future. Adding a bit of political analysis, West said that 90 percent of black people are Democrats. <em>\u201cThat sounds like control to me,\u201d<\/em> he wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From now on I\u2019m performing with my mutherfucking hat on &#x1f409;&#x1f409;&#x1f409;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ye (@kanyewest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kanyewest\/status\/1080209800846176256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Blacks are 90% Democrats     That sounds like control to me &#x1f914;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ye (@kanyewest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kanyewest\/status\/1080200391906578433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<p>There was some confusion recently, however, over whether the Chicago native had soured on Trump after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/442693-kanye-west-quits-politics\/\">he admitted<\/a> he had been <em>\u201cused to spread messages I don\u2019t believe in\u201d<\/em> just a couple of weeks after meeting Trump at the White House. He then laid out his<em> \u201cACTUAL beliefs\u201d<\/em> which included <em>\u201ccommon-sense gun laws\u201d<\/em> and support for refugees <em>\u201cseeking asylum and parents who are fighting to protect their children from violence and war.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>West then said he would be<em> \u201cdistancing\u201d<\/em> himself from politics and <em>\u201cfocusing on being creative\u201d<\/em> instead. But his political hiatus didn\u2019t last long and it seems that the self-declared<em> \u201cgenius\u201d<\/em> is ready to climb back on the Trump train.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/441034-kanye-west-white-house-monologue\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">WATCH: Kanye\u2019s insane White House solo that left Trump mindblown<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__cover\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.10\/thumbnail\/5bbfa2d5dda4c891018b45ee.jpg')\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>West has received massive backlash since he first admitted his support for Trump during the 2016 election campaign. After his Oval Office meeting with Trump in October, during which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/441034-kanye-west-white-house-monologue\/\">acted erratically<\/a> and delivered a meandering 10-minute long monologue about Trump, racism and the media, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/441037-kanye-trump-reaction-mentally-ill\/\">was branded<\/a><em>\u201cmentally ill,\u201d \u201ccrazy\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cilliterate\u201d<\/em> with <em>\u201cclinical issues.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>If you like this story, share it with a friend!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/447946-kanye-west-trump-tweets\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West\u2019s on-again, off-again love affair with US President Donald Trump seems to be on again for 2019, as the controversial rapper redeclared his support for the president in a New Year\u2019s Day tweetstorm. \u201cTrump all day,\u201d West wrote in the first post, adding a series of green dragon emojis and following it up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":392059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}