Kanye West's sudden decision to withdraw from politics was driven by the damage his pattern of erratic behavior has done to his fashion business, according to new reports
The rapper made the stunning announcement that he would be quitting politics in a longwinded Twitter rant Tuesday in which he claimed he had been 'used to spread messages I don't believe in'
However, a new report from Showbiz411 claims there's a much simpler explanation for Kanye's sudden change of tune: money
According to the site, West's fashion empire has suffered as a result of his polarizing political persona - who maintains a close friendship with Donald Trump and has claimed that 'slavery is a choice'
West hopes that departing politics will result in a more success for his three new sneakers styles with Adidas, launching just in time for the Christmas season, amid fledgling sale numbers for his Yeezy shoe line
Research platform Spotted recently published a study about the impact of West's recent behavior on his reputation and his ability to drive sales
According to the study there were two key episodes that damaged the rapper's appeal with 25-and-unders, his products' key demographic
The first was the TMZ Live appearance in May during which West made the suggestion that African Americans had chosen to be enslaved
The second was his infamous meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office early this month, where he went on a bizarre rant about a number of topics mainly related to race
Spotted co-founder and CEO Janet Comenos told Footwear News: 'Part of [Kanye's] persona is that he is so outrageous that he gets a ton of exposure, which can be helpful to [a fashion label]
'But some of his more recent behavior has reduced his appeal with the younger segment of consumers when [appealing to that group] is exactly why Adidas is using him
'The Spotted report concluded that despite his fame and considerably large audience, West likely isn't the best pick for brand ambassador
According to Comenos — whether solo or with the Kardashians by his side — Spotted does not find West's fame to be worth the danger
Comenos said: 'Overall, he's an extremely risky choice, and not someone I'd be recommending to a brand in the fashion space
'There are a lot celebrities out there that can help a brand be perceived as more edgy — and they don't have these other negative qualities [such as being] erratic, rebellious or negatively outspoken, where Kanye ranks high
' Just one day after Kanye revealed his political departure Trump denied that there was any kind of rift between him and the rapper on Wednesday
'We get along great. He's a good guy,' Trump told reporters at the White House before he left for a campaign rally in Florida
Trump has touted his close relationship with Kanye on several occasions as he tries to appeal to black voters ahead of the midterm elections next week
However, Kanye delivered a harsh blow to his buddy in his Twitter rant on Tuesday by criticizing the president's immigration policy
'My eyes are now wide open and now realize I've been used to spread messages I don't believe in
I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative !!!,' he wrote on Twitter
'I support those who risk their lives to serve and protect us and I support holding people who misuse their power accountable
I believe in love and compassion for people seeking asylum and parents who are fighting to protect their children from violence and war,' the rapper wrote
He also denounced the 'blexit' movement - black people leaving the Democratic Party - and its conservative founder Candace Owens
West said even though his name was used he 'never wanted any association' and has 'nothing to do with it
' 'I introduced Candace to the person who made the logo and they didn't want their name on it so she used mine
I never wanted any association with Blexit. I have nothing to do with it,' he tweeted
Owens has urged Black voters to leave Democrats as part of her 'blexit' campaign
'Blexit is a Renaissance,' Owens told Fox News on Monday. 'Blexit is the black exit from the Democratic Party
It's the black exit from permanent victimhood, the black exit from the false idea that we are somehow separate from the rest of America
'Her movement got national attention after she said West helped her design its logo
'Kanye saw my original design, and said, 'I can do it better,' Owens said. 'It certainly was
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Hundreds attend funerals of 'inseparable' disabled brothers. Share this article Share 563 shares The rapper and designer also debuted a line of shirts endorsing a 'Black Exit' from the Democratic Party at the Young Black Leadership Summit in Washington, DC, on Saturday - even as he denounced the movement on Tuesday
West did not attend the summit although there had been rumors he would be there. West also thanked his family for their support
He is married Kim Kardashian, who has met with Trump, his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner about prison reform
'I would like to thank my family, loved ones, and community for supporting my ACTUAL beliefs and my vision for a better world,' West wrote on Tuesday
Kardashian's May meeting at the White House led the president to grant clemency to Alice Marie Johnson, whom Kardashian had become a prominent supporter of after reading about her case online
Kardashian visited the White House in September for a second time. She's not known to have spoken to the president during that trip
She participated in a prison reform panel with Kushner and Ivanka Trump. West is close with Trump, having first met with him at Trump Tower shortly after Trump won the 2016 presidential election
He has tweeted his support of him and often wears a red 'Make America Great Again' hat
He also met with the president in the Oval Office earlier this month where he went on an extended rant as he sat across from Trump at the Resolute Desk, where he dropped the F bomb, spoke about his bipolar disorder diagnosis and even shared a warm hug with the president, who concluded that his speech 'pretty impressive'
West, who wants to be known as Ye, said he has come to understand that 'bravery helps you beat this game called life' and that he was misdiagnosed with a mental health disease when he was really just sleep deprived in a 10-minute speech, followed by nearly 10 minutes of questions, in which he labeled himself a 'crazy motherf***er' and called the amendment that ended slavery a 'trap door' and said it should be abolished
West showed up to the meeting wearing a 'Make America Great Again' ball cap.'They tried to scare me to not wear this hat, my own friends, but this hat it gives me, it gives me power,' West asserted
'You know, my dad and my mom separated, so I didn't have a lot of male energy in my home
And also, I'm married to a family that, you know – not a lot of male energy going on
It's beautiful though,' he said, breaking into nervous laughter as he spoke about his wife Kim Kardashian West and her family
He said the hat is like a Superman cape and said that Trump made him a billionaire
'No bulls***t,' he added. During the meeting, West joked he wouldn't challenge Trump as the president in 2020 as the president said he'd love for the rapper to campaign with him
West told Trump, 'I love you' at the end of their sit down as he came around to give him a hug
The president informed him that the didn't want to put him in a bad spot. 'No, I'm standing in this spot, I love this guy right here,' West volunteered
'That's really nice. Come here. That's really nice. And that's from that heart. I didn't want to put you in that position
But that's from the heart. Special guy,' Trump said. 'These two are special people
Whether you like it, whether you don't like it, they're special people. And I appreciate it
Jim, Kanye, I appreciate it,' he said of West and NFL Hall of Famer Jim Brown, who was also at the White House for the lunch
West said in the conversation that he wouldn't challenge Trump in 2020 for president - but he could seek the Oval Office for himself in 2024
'Let's stop worrying about the future all we really have is today,' he said. 'Trump is on his hero's journey right now
And might not have thought he'd have a crazy mother-f***er like Kanye West's support
' Trump said he'd be happy to have West on the trail with next year. 'He can speak for me any time he wants
He's been there. Great guy. Smart cookie. Smart. He gets it.' The president has tried to use his ties with West and prominent African Americans such golfer Tiger Woods to gin up support among black voters
Trump has complained he should have more support from that voting bloc and often touts the low black unemployment numbers
Black unemployment hit a record low of 5.9 percent in May. It has risen a little since - it was 6
3 percent in August - but is still at historic lows. Trump won 8 percent of the black vote in the 2016 election but Hillary Clinton took 89 percent of their vote
Still he did better than Mitt Romney, who only got 6 percent of the black vote in 2012, although he was competing against Barack Obama, the first African American president
African Americans historically support Democratic candidates. The president has credited Kanye with his own surge in support among African Americans when he spoke to Fox News earlier this month - and he told DailyMail
com in October that the backing stems from his dedication to raising black unemployment
'I will say this, when Kanye came out very strongly a number of months ago, something happened
My polls went up like 25 percent. Nobody's ever seen it like -- he's got a big following in the African-American community,' Trump said
'A big, big following. And I think he has in a lot of communities. But the polls went through the roof
And I have not seen that -- I think I have -- I can honestly say, I've never seen that before to that extent
'Trump hailed West as a 'smart guy' and said the artist 'loves' what this administration is doing for African-Americans
'He's been a terrific guy. He loves what we're doing for African-American jobs, for so many different things
Median incomes.is at all-time high. Poverty level at the best rate, meaning the lowest rate
And Kanye is a smart guy and he sees that,' the president said on the South Lawn
READ EVERY WORD KANYE WEST SAID DURING HIS ASTOUNDING OVAL OFFICE MEETING WITH DONALD TRUMPDONALD TRUMP:
The greatest of all time. And what I, what people don't know, Kanye, everybody knows, right? Does the world know, Kanye? What people – Kanye – what people don't know about you [Brown]? They say, first of all he's the best football player
But they say he was even better lacrosse player. Do you think so? Huh?JIM BROWN: I never thought about it
DONALD TRUMP: I've heard he was, even at Syracuse.JIM BROWN: Yes, I loved it. A real love for it
DONALD TRUMP: Well, it's great to have you, Jim. Thank you. Kanye, it's great to be with you
JIM BROWN: Great to be here with you.DONALD TRUMP: And these are two friends of mine
And Kanye's been a friend of mine for a long time, and Jim has – Jim came out of nowhere and he said, "I like what the president's doing
" A long time ago we met, right? And I just appreciate it very much. And you know, if you look at the employment numbers, if you look at the median income, if you look at every single indicator, we're keeping our promise, Jim
Thank you.JIM BROWN: I like North Korea.DONALD TRUMP: I like North Korea too.JIM BROWN: [UNINTELLIGIBLE] DONALD TRUMP: Yeah
Yeah. Well, he's – turned out to be good. Dialogue. We had a little dialogue. And the secretary of state just came back, Mike, he just came back from North Korea
We had very good meetings, and we'll meet again. But we're doing good. No more nuclear testing, no more missiles going up, no more nothing
And it's – that was headed to war. That was headed to war.JIM BROWN: Yeah, to me it seemed like –DONALD TRUMP: Yep
It was so close. I spoke, I spoke to President Obama. I will tell you, that was headed to war
And now it's going to be, I believe it's going to work out very well.KANYE WEST: And stopped the war
DONALD TRUMP: We really stopped the war, saved millions of lives. You know, Seoul has 30 million people
You don't realize how big, 30 million people right near the border, 30 miles off the border
Millions of people would have been killed. And I will say, Chairman Kim has been really good
Really good, and we've made a lot of progress. That's nice that you say that, because that's a big – that's a big thing
These folks were covering, they were covering North Korea not, I think not very promisingly
And there were a lot of problems. President Obama said that was his biggest problem
And I don't say anything's solved –KANYE WEST: [UNINTELLIGIBLE] one of the biggest problems, in all, one of the biggest problems –DONALD TRUMP: Yes, it was a big, it was a big solving
And not solved yet but I think we're a long – I think we're on the way.JIM BROWN: [UNINTELLIGIBLE]DONALD TRUMP: No, no, it's, we're well on our way
JIM BROWN: [UNINTELLIGIBLE]DONALD TRUMP: In a short period of time, Jim. Very short period of time
You know, I left Singapore three months ago and we've made a lot of progress. So it's very good
That's one of many things. And I appreciate everything with you. I tell you what
Kim was in. Mrs. Johnson, we got her out. She was very unfairly treated. And there are many other people like that, that –KANYE WEST: We've got Larry Hoover's lawyer with us today, and it's a prisoner that we're focused on
He has six life sentences, and they have him next to the Unabomber doing 23 at once
That means he's –DONALD TRUMP: What did he do, Larry? What did he do?LAWYER: Why is he in?DONALD TRUMP: Yes, tell me
Tell us the story.LAWYER: Allegedly it's for conspiracy from prison, from state prison, you know, it's alleged, but we do believe even if he did commit those crimes, the sentence was overly broad and too strict
DONALD TRUMP: What was the sentence?LAWYER: Six consecutive life sentences in the most secure prison in the world, also known as the clean version of hell, for basically an economic crime
KANYE WEST: What prison is that? Name the prison.LAWYER: ADX Supermax in Florence, Colorado
They house the Unabomber, al Qaeda operatives, mass-killers, Oklahoma City bomber, things of that nature
DONALD TRUMP: How old is he? How old?LAWYER: Sixty-eight.DONALD TRUMP: He's 68 years old?PERSON X: Yes, he's 68 years old
KANYE WEST: And really, the reason why they imprisoned him is because he started doing positive for the community
He started showing that he actually had power, that he wasn't just one of a monolithic voice, but he could wrap people around
So there's theories that there's infinite amounts of universe, and there's alternate universe, so it's very important for me to get Hoover out because in an alternate universe I am him, and I have to go and get him free
Because he was doing positive inside of Chicago just like I'm moving back to Chicago and it's not just about, you know, getting on stage and being an entertainer and having a monolithic voice that's forced to be a specific party
You know, people expect that if you're black, you have to be Democrat. I have a – I have conversations that basically said that welfare is the reason why a lot of black people end up being Democrat
They say, you know, first of all, it's a limit to amount of jobs. So the fathers lose the jobs, and they say, "We'll give you more money for having more kids in your home
" And then we got rid of the mental health institutes in the '80s and the '90s, and the prison rates just shot up
And now you have Chi-raq, what people call Chi-raq – which is actually, our murder rate is going down by 20 per cent every year
I just talked to the superintendent, met with Michael Sacks, that's Rahm's right-hand man
So I think it's the bravery that helps you beat this game called life. You know, they tried to scare me to not wear this hat
My own friends. But this hat, it gives me – it gives me power in a way. You know, my dad and my mom separated, so I didn't have a lot of male energy in my home
And also, I'm married to a family that, uh, you know, not a lot of male energy going on
It's beautiful, though. But there's times where, you know, it's something about, you know – I love Hillary
I love everyone, right? But the campaign, "I'm with her," just didn't make me feel, as a guy that didn't get to see my dad all the time, like a guy that could play catch with his son
It was something about, when I put this hat on, it made me feel like Superman. You made a Superman – that's my favorite super hero
And you made a Superman cape for me. Also as a guy that looks up to you, looks up to Ralph Lauren, looks up to American industry guys, non-political, no bulls**t – put the beep on it, however you want to do it, five seconds delay – and just goes in and gets it done
Right now, you gave me the heart to go to Adidas. Because at Adidas, when I went in in 2015, we're a $14 billion company losing $2 billion a year
Now we have a $38 billion market cap. It's called the "Yeezy Effect." And I went to Casper
We had a meeting in Chicago. And I said, "You have to bring manufacturing onshore
" And not even shore. Into the core! It's not about the borders, the core of Adidas
And Chicago is the core of middle America, and we have to make middle America strong
So I had the balls, because I had enough the balls to put on this hat. I mean, this Adidas thing made me a billionaire, and I could have lost $200 million walking away from that deal
But even with that, I knew it was more important for me to take the chance of walking away from that deal than to have no fathers in Chicago, with no homes
And when we do have prison reformation, for no – because it's habilitation, not rehabilitation, because we didn't have the abilities in the first place
We never had anyone who taught us. They didn't teach us. And exactly: "We didn't have no one that taught us," right? So it's more important than any specific deal, anything, that we bring jobs into America
And that we provide a transition with mental health and the American education curriculum that Jim has worked on, Larry Hoover also has a curriculum that he's worked on
We have Montessori curriculums that we worked on. WeWorks has a beautiful curriculum
The Waldorf establishment has a curriculum. We have meditation. There's a lot of things affecting our mental health that makes us do crazy things, that puts us back into that trap door called the 13th Amendment
I did say "abolish," with the hat on. Because why would you keep something around that's a trap door? If you're building a floor, the Constitution is the base of our industry, right? Of our country, of our company
Would you build a trap door that if you mess up and you accidentally, something happens, you fall and you end up next to the Unabomber? You end up – you've got to remove all that trap door out of the relationship
The four gentleman that wrote the 13th Amendment? And I think the way the universe works, it's perfect
We don't have 13 floors, do we? You know, so the four gentlemen that wrote the 13th Amendment didn't look like the people they were amending
Also, at that point it was illegal for blacks to read, or African-Americans to read, and so that meant if you actually read the amendment, you'd get locked up! And turned into a slave
Again, so what I think is we don't need sentences, we need partners. We need to talk to people
I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I was connected with a neuropsychologist that works with the athletes in the NBA and the NFL
And he looked at my brain, it's equal on three parts. I'm going to go ahead, drop some bombs to you: 98th percentile IQ test
I had a 75 percentile of all human beings but it was counting eight numbers backwards off, there was repeating
So I'm going to work on that one. The other ones, 98 per cent. Tesla. Freud. You know, so he said that I actually wasn't bipolar
I had sleep deprivation which could cause dementia 10 to 20 years from now, where I wouldn't even remember my son's name
So all this power that I get, and I'm taking my son to the Sox game and all that? I wouldn't be able to remember his name – from a misdiagnosis
And what we need is, we can empower the pharmaceuticals and make more money. That's one thing
I've never stepped into a situation where I didn't make people more money. So we can empower pharmaceuticals
We can empower our industries. We can empower our factories. We can bring not only Adidas onshore, we can bring Foxconn and set up a factory in, I think, Minnesota
Fifth-three thousand –DONALD TRUMP: Wisconsin, yeah. Wisconsin.KANYE WEST: Yeah, Wisconsin
They have 4,000 jobs. People making $53,000 a year. And one of the things we've got to set is Ford, to have the highest design
The dopest cars. The most amazing. I don't really say "dope." I don't say negative words and try to flip them
We just say positive, lovely, divine, universal words. So the flyest, freshest, most amazing car
And what we want to start with is – I brought a gift with me right here. This right here is the I-plane One
It's a hydrogen-powered airplane, and this is what our president should be flying in
Look at this, Jared.DONALD TRUMP: We'll get rid of Air Force One. Can we get rid of Air Force One? No? You don't like that
KANYE WEST: Well, we're going to have Apple, an American company, work on this plane with – but you know what I don't like about – it's not that I don't like – what I need Saturday Night Live to improve on, and what I need the liberals to improve on, is: If he don't look good, we don't look good
This is our president.DONALD TRUMP: It's true.KANYE WEST: He has to be the freshest, the flyest, the flyest planes, the best factories
And we have to make our core be empowered. We have to bring jobs into America. Because our best export is entertainment ideas
But when we make everything in China and not in America, then we're cheating on our country
And we're putting people in positions to have to do illegal things to end up in the cheapest factory ever, the prison system
DONALD TRUMP: I'll tell you what, that was pretty impressive, folks. You know, I hate to say this, Jim, you want to say something too? What do you do after that? JIM BROWN: You don't mind if I –DONALD TRUMP: You are fantastic
Please, Jim, please.JIM BROWN: Alright. He don't look good, we don't look good. DONALD TRUMP: Great, right?JIM BROWN: Yes it is
DONALD TRUMP: Isn't that a great statement? And it's so true. As a country, it's so true
Very impressive. I've never seen Jim Brown impressed before. He was impressed. That's true
That statement is amazing, huh?JIM BROWN: Yes, it makes a lot of sense.DONALD TRUMP: I want to tell you, it's great to have you guys with us
And we're going to go in, we're going to have some lunch. That was quite something
That was quite something.KANYE WEST: It was from the soul. I just channeled it.DONALD TRUMP: Yes, it's really very interesting
REPORTER: Quick question?DONALD TRUMP: Yeah, sure, please.REPORTER: So you had said of President Bush that he doesn't care about black people
And you've heard some people say that about this president. What do you, how do you respond to that? What do you make of that?KANYE WEST: I think we need to care about all people
And I believe that when I went onto NBC, I was very emotional and I was programmed to think from a victimized mentality, of a welfare mentality
I think that with blacks and African-Americans, we really get caught up in the idea of racism over the idea of industry
We say if people don't have land, they settle for brands. We want Polo supporting Obama again
We want a brand more than we want land. Because we haven't known how it feels to actually have our own land, and have ownership of our own blocks
So when you don't have ownership, then it's all about how something looks. It's about the patina, it's not about the soul, and it's not about the core
So we focus more on, is somebody wearing something, does someone disrespect me so I've got to, I've got to shoot them? Or the idea of someone being racist? You know, we talk about police murders, which we definitely have to discuss, and we have to bring nobility to the police officers and make them – because the police officers are just like us
But there's just this whole hate building, right? And that's a major thing about racial tension
And we also, as black people we have to take a responsibility for what we're doing
We kill each other more police officers. And that's not saying that the police officer is not an issue, because they are in a place, a position of power
But sometimes they're in placement of law enforcement. They need to be law power
It's force versus power. When you have – you shouldn't have to force people to do that
So a lot of times the police officer is sitting there, they're being forced to do this and forced to do that block
And then they force somebody into something, and forces something. We have to release the love throughout the entire country, and give opportunities
A lot of times it's just the overall lack of reparations that we – at any given point, we say, "Aw, this is racist, this is racist, this is racist, this is racist
" So we don't have the reparations, but we have the 13th Amendment. We've got to open up the whole conversation
So – and that's a move – one of the moves I love that liberals try to do, a liberal would try to control a black person through the concept of racism, because they know that we're a very proud, emotional people
So when I said, "I like Trump," to, like, someone that's liberal, they'll say, "Oh, but he's racist
" You think racism can control me? Oh, that don't stop me. That's an invisible wall
REPORTER: Mr. West, what would you like? –REPORTER: So you reject those who say he's racist?KANYE WEST: Your question
You had one question, so we're moving to another question. I answered your question
I don't answer questions in simple sound bites. You are tasting a fine wine. It has multiple notes to it
You better play 4-D chess with me like it's "Minority Report." Because it ain't that simple
It's complex.REPORTER: Mr. West, what would you like – I'm from the Chicago Sun-Times so I would like to know what you ask president Trump to do for Chicago
We heard you talk about crime in Chicago.KANYE WEST: The thing that the head of the police and Matt Sacks met with me last night at the Soho House about, was we feel that "stop and frisk" does not help the relationships in the city
And everyone that knew I was coming here said, "Ask about stop and frisk." That's – that's the number one thing that we're having this conversation about
Another thing is opening up industries. And we've got to get some tax breaks too
Because we know, we're making – we got a speed factory in Atlanta but the shoes are costing us $300
So it's costing us too much to make things. So we need some prototypes here so we can get people back working, so China can't just beat us and Vietnam can't beat us
You've got Levis, the greatest jeans company in the world, making their jeans in Vietnam
So we're going to need to get a few breaks to be able to have some places in my hometown of Chicago, and the 2
7 million, to the 9 million [in the] surrounding suburbs, where we can create some factories
Now I think it would be cooler for them to be Trump factories because he's a master of industry, he's a builder
And I think it would be cool to have "Yeezy Ideation Centers," which would be a mix of education that empowers people and gives them modern information
Like sometimes people say, "This kid has ADD, this kid has ADD." He don't have ADD! School is boring! It was boring
It's not as exciting as this. We have to make it more exciting. We have to mix curriculums
You play basketball while you're doing math. You learn about music while you meditate in the morning
We have to instate mental health and art programs back into the city. So those are – and also, Larry Hoover is an example of a man that was turning his life around, and as soon as he tried to turn his life around they hit him with six life sentences
So I believe he's – you say, "Don't tear down the statues"? Larry Hoover is a living statue
He's a beacon for us that needs to see his family, that needs to go out and represent
When you have a block leader on every single block, they can own the block as their own
That's something I learned from Jim Brown, from Amer-I-Can. We need to put curriculums, from people who really came from the streets, not people who are just trying to set us up to go into a work system or prison system, that applies to what people are really going through
Which Jim Brown has created. REPORTER: What about gun violence, with all the debate about the Second Amendment going on?KANYE WEST: The problem is illegal guns
Illegal guns is the problem, not legal guns. We have the right to bear arms.REPORTER: President Trump has said that he favors "stop and frisk
" Are you guys going to be discussing that? Do you think you can change his mind?KANYE WEST: Yes, we're going to discuss that
I didn't mean to put you on blast like that, bro.DONALD TRUMP: No, no, that's okay
Hey, I'm open-minded, I'm here. I am open-minded.REPORTER: Mr. President, would you like him to speak at one of your rallies?DONALD TRUMP: He can speak for me any time he wants
He's been there. Great guy. He's a smart cookie. Smart. He gets it. These two guys, Jim Brown, he's been doing this for a long time
REPORTER: Is this a future presidential candidate?DONALD TRUMP: Uh, could very well be
KANYE WEST: Only after, it would be 2024.DONALD TRUMP: That's good, I'm glad to hear that
KANYE WEST: We have a good – and the thing is, let's stop worrying about the future
All we really have is today. We just have today. Over and over and over again. The eternal returns and the hero's journey
And Trump is on his hero's journey right now, and he might not have expected to have a crazy motherf****r like Kanye West run up and support
But best believe, we are going to make America great. Now the thing is, my – another thing is black people have an issue with the word "again
" And I believe, my feeling from that is because I'm going to throw – I'm going to go all the way [unintelligible] because time is a myth
All we have is now. All we have is today. So the word "again," it doesn't hurt us because of the idea of racism and slavery, and different things
It hurts us because we need to focus on who we are now, today, I believe. So I actually brought some hats in that have a bit of a transition
I'm not trying to put you – I'll put you on the spot a little bit. I made a hat that says "Make America Great
" Just that. But I would love to see at the Super Bowl, Trump wearing the "Make America Great" hat
Colin [Kaepernick] wearing the "Make America Great. And showing that we can bend a bit on this side, we can bend a bit on this side
And we can learn how to be malleable in the infinite universe that we are, and the loving beings that we are
That we don't have to stick to our old traditions. And that we aren't a side. We are one unit
We are one country. We are one moment in history, in time. We might have been here before, but right now we're here together
And the greatest value that people have are other people. And we need to stop working on red and blue
It's like a gang again.DONALD TRUMP: Let me ask you this question. You're in the Oval Office
How does it feel to be in the Oval Office?KANYE WEST: Oh, it is good energy in this
DONALD TRUMP: Isn't it good energy?KANYE WEST: It's good energy.DONALD TRUMP: It's a great place
Jim, how do you feel?JIM BROWN: I feel good.DONALD TRUMP: Yeah.JIM BROWN: I truly feel good
And thank you, too.DONALD TRUMP: You are so respected. And what Kanye's doing has been incredible
All over the world they're talking about this. And I have to tell you, I had important meetings today with senators and with everything
Nobody cared! They wanted this meeting! This is the meeting. Is that right? I can say that to Jon
REPORTER: Oh, we care about – you know –DONALD TRUMP: No, the others were good, right, but this is what they want
JIM BROWN: They knew you would be there.DONALD TRUMP: Well, it's my honor, Jim. I want to tell you, I've been a fan of yours for a long time
Long time. [There's] nobody like you. Nobody like you. No athlete like you.JIM BROWN: Well, you know why I'm here? I'm here to serve
DONALD TRUMP: Well, that's really nice, man.JIM BROWN: I'm not going to ask for anything
I'm here to contribute.DONALD TRUMP: Well, and you know, that's always been the way Jim has been
For a long time. And he just wanted to help. And it's something special. Jennifer, did you have a question?REPORTER: Um, I guess, just you, what do you think about stop and frisk? Are you going to, you know, backtrack –?DONALD TRUMP: Well, we're going to look at it
I'm open to everything. Hey, look, I think it's a shame what's happening in Chicago
REPORTER: I mean, what else can be done in Chicago?DONALD TRUMP: I'm in Chicago a lot too
I have nice things in Chicago. You know that, right? And I hate to see what's happening
They're having numbers that – numbers of people being shot and killed. And it's not for this country
So they have to do something. And I am totally open. If we can do it a different way, Kanye, I'm totally open
But they have to do – I mean, we all agree they have to do something. That's for sure
REPORTER: Mr. President, is it a law enforcement issue, a legislation or legislative issue?DONALD TRUMP: Well, maybe it's a combination of both
I guess it is, but I think it's probably a combination of both. And it's also a respect issue
They respect this guy. They respect this guy. That's a big thing. Right now they're not respecting, let's say, your mayor or let's say your leadership in Chicago
But certainly it shouldn't be happening. What's going on there shouldn't be happening
Steve, go ahead.REPORTER: What do you want this meeting to lead to, in terms of –DONALD TRUMP: Honestly, from our standpoint this was just set up to be a lunch, of two people that I like
And I guess they like me. And we're going to have lunch. And we're going to talk
KANYE WEST: You said "respect." I guess you know I love you. Did I, did I –DONALD TRUMP: But I don't want to take – I don't want to put you in that spot
KANYE WEST: No, I'm standing in that spot. I love this guy right here. Let me give this guy a hug right there
I love this guy right here.DONALD TRUMP: That's really nice. Come here. That's really nice
And that's from the heart. I didn't want to put you in that position. But that's from the heart
Special guy. These two are special people. Whether you like it, whether you don't like it, they're special people
And I appreciate it. Jim, Kanye, I appreciate it. So let's go have some lunch, okay? Thank you all very much
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