Trump is aware of full nicely that Kanye West has been spewing horrible anti-Semitic claptrap for months.
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I’m usually requested to call my dream banquet visitor checklist, and that’s a comparatively simple query.
I’d have Elon Musk, Tiger Woods, Ricky Gervais, Sharon Osbourne, Pope Francis, Beyoncé, Howard Stern, Malala Yousafzai, Cristiano Ronaldo and Dame Joan Collins.
The right mixture of brains, expertise, humor, braveness, religion and glamour.
A tougher query could be my banquet visitor checklist from hell.
However it could most likely embrace former President Donald Trump and Kanye “Ye” West, if solely as a result of they’d by no means cease speaking over different company and would consistently offend everybody by saying intentionally crass, inflammatory issues.
And it could most positively embrace Nick Fuentes, a repellent, hateful, anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, racist, misogynist, homophobic white supremacist and self-identified incel who praises Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin, helps the Taliban, advocates assaulting girls who “get out of line,” says the civil rights motion was a mistake, and who, simply two days earlier than the Jan. 6 riots on the Capitol, publicly prompt killing legislators who have been unwilling to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election.
He additionally known as the lethal assault on democracy “superior” and “refreshing.”
Fuentes is a infamous particular person who revels in his headline-grabbing notoriety, and for those who transfer in any sort of political/media circles, you’d need to be sitting in a huge crater on the moon not to pay attention to him and his disgusting views, which have induced him to be banned from most social media platforms, and cost processors like PayPal, and gotten him positioned on a federal no-fly checklist.
But final Tuesday evening, Trump hosted a pre-Thanksgiving dinner at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Seashore for Fuentes — and West.
It was unhealthy sufficient that he invited West after all of the controversy over the rapper’s repeated anti-Semitic outbursts in latest weeks.
For a former US president who claims to be “Israel’s greatest buddy,” and who earlier this month accepted an award from America’s oldest pro-Zionist group for his “achievements on behalf of Israel and world Jewry,” to be cozying as much as a person who stated he was going “Loss of life con 3 on Jewish Folks” is shockingly tone-deaf.
However for Trump to even be chowing down on turkey and apple pie with one of many world’s most despicable anti-Semites, somebody who in contrast Jews burned in focus camps to cookies in an oven, is past shameful.
The Zionist Group of America that introduced him with its highest award, the Theodor Herzl Medallion, issued a press release saying, “ZOA deplores the truth that President Trump had a pleasant dinner with such vile antisemites. His eating with Jew-haters helps legitimize and mainstream antisemitism and have to be condemned by everybody.”
It was so unhealthy, it even horrified Republicans.
“That is simply terrible, unacceptable conduct from anybody, however most notably from a former President and present candidate,” tweeted one other potential 2024 Republican candidate, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Sure, it's.
And what made it even worse, as is so usually the case with Trump, was his pathetic try to fake he had no thought who Fuentes is.
“Kanye West very a lot needed to go to Mar-a-Lago,” he stated in one among varied statements he’s put out desperately making an attempt to guard himself from the mounting outrage over the meal. “Our dinner assembly was supposed to be Kanye and me solely, however he arrived with a visitor whom I had by no means met and knew nothing about.”
Oh, please.
Trump is guarded by a big Secret Service element at Mar-a-Lago.
And I understand how thorough they're about anybody who visits him, as a result of in April this 12 months, I interviewed Trump there and my complete crew was subjected to detailed checks earlier than they arrived.
The brokers may have shortly labored out precisely who Fuentes is, and his background, and briefed Trump.
It’s actually one Google search.
'Stop the Steal' protest, Atlanta, USA - 18 Nov 2020" class="wp-image-24811564"/>Simply as Trump is aware of full nicely that West has been spewing horrible anti-Semitic claptrap for months, costing the singer large contracts with companies like Adidas.
But he nonetheless went forward with the dinner, throughout which, in response to Axios, which broke the story, there was a “lot of fawning forwards and backwards.”
At one level, Trump reportedly turned to West and stated of Fuentes, “I actually like this man. He will get me.”
Fuentes even boasted of being de-platformed from Gettr, the social platform launched by Trump adviser and shut buddy Jason Miller.
When Trump requested whether or not it was as a result of Fuentes was on the “fringe” of his supporter base, Fuentes replied that he was.
Even this gigantic purple flag didn’t make Trump stand up and go away.
West, who stated Trump started “screaming” at him when he introduced he too was working for president and needed him to his working mate, posted a video after the dinner saying his host was “actually impressed” with Fuentes.
After all he was.
Trump is drawn to sycophancy like a ravenous bee to a pot of honey.
He’ll ignore somebody’s background, nevertheless appalling, as long as they are saying good issues about him.
That’s an Achilles heel for anybody.
For somebody working for president, it’s a catastrophe.
“To my buddy Donald Trump, you're higher than this,” tweeted David Friedman, who served as Trump’s US ambassador to Israel.
However he’s not.
Again and again, from his “very nice individuals, on each side” remark defending the Charlottesville white nationalist protesters, to him speaking up vile dictators like Putin and Kim Jong Un, Trump’s proven a repeated and disturbing tendency to embrace the worst, most bigoted individuals on this planet.
That’s why his dinner with Nick Fuentes isn’t actually that stunning.
Trump loved him blowing smoke up his needy bottom, and that’s all he cares about.
Whilst he raced to distance his guilty-as-sin carcass from the scandal, he couldn’t deliver himself to denounce Fuentes.
Although he did discover time to denounce West as a “severely troubled man, who simply occurs to be black.”
This dinner ought to be a large wake-up name for these within the GOP nonetheless weirdly in thrall to a severely tarnished ex-leader who will fortunately sup with anti-Semitic devils in the event that they inform him they love him.
Trump, not that we wanted a lot of a reminder, won't ever change.
However the Republican Get together should, and transfer on from him quick, or it is going to lose in 2024.
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