15 celebrities who got political in 2018
“I love Hillary,” Kanye West says, but the campaign ‘I’m With Her’ didn’t make me feel like a guy that could play catch with his son," adding his ‘Make America Great Again’ hat made him “feel like Superman” #tictocnews pic.twitter.com/PKQFHLqAWp
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3. Kanye West
Oh, Kanye.
He’s made it into the political sections of your newspapers and favorite newsfeeds quite a bit this year, and bite always in the most flattering manner. Whether Kanye West’s seemingly newly expressed views are a genuine thing or an attempt to stay in the public consciousness relations are to be determined.
What has Kanye been up to? Mostly, it looks like buddying up with one Donald Trump, the man currently situated in the White House as President of the United States. “Buddy” may be a bit too friendly of a word, given Trump’s spotty past record with people of color, and West’s sometimes bizarre behavior.
Perhaps most notable was West’s visit to the Oval Office in October, where even Trump seemed trapped behind his big desk as West rambled about… well, it wasn’t entirely clear. Air Force One? Bipolar disorder? Something that he a little alarmingly termed to be “male energy”?
One of the most quoted portions of the 10 minute monologue was Kanye’s love of his bright red “Make America Great Again”, or MAGA, hat. “There was something about when I put this hat on that made me feel like Superman. That’s my favorite hero,” he told Trump. “You made a Superman cape for me.”
If that weren’t confusing enough, Kanye’s newfound Republican views started to wither soon after. Reportedly, West felt that he was being used by conservatives as a kind of poster boy, which didn’t cotton to his independent style. Later in October, he wrote on Twitter: “I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative !!!”