When confronted about his antisemitic views, Kanye West storms off the podcast
On Monday, after being confronted about his antisemitic comments, Kanye West walked off the set of a live podcast taping.
White nationalists Milo Yiannopoulos and Nick Fuentes joined West on the Tim Pool podcast Timcast. Actually, Pool started the interview by asking West about his recent dinner with Donald Trump, but West quickly changed the subject.
West said, “I just got to go to the heart of this antisemite claim,” and then went on an incoherent rant in which he accused the Jewish-led conspiracy to end his career of including Gap, adidas, Vogue, former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and even his personal trainer.
West threatened to leave once Pool pushed back. “I feel like it’s a setup… I’m going to walk the F off the show if I’m having to talk about, ‘You can’t say Jewish people did it,’ when every sensible person knows — that Jon Stewart knows — what happened to me, and they took it to far.”
A short time later, West drew parallels between himself and MLK.“As I’m getting hosed down every day by the press and financially, I’m just standing there,” West said. “When I found out they were trying to put me in jail, it was like a dog was biting my arm and I almost shed a tear. Almost. But I still walked in stride through it.”
A short time later, West drew parallels between himself and MLK.“As I’m getting hosed down every day by the press and financially, I’m just standing there,” West said. “When I found out they were trying to put me in jail, it was like a dog was biting my arm and I almost shed a tear. Almost. But I still walked in stride through it.”
Pool agreed with West, saying, “They have been extremely unfair.” West then asked, “they… we can’t say who they is?” Upon hearing that Pool was referring to the “corporate press,” Fuentes immediately stepped in to defend West. What do you mean by “it’s not?” West then chimed in, pulled out his headphones, and stormed off in a huff.
Pusha T publicly distanced himself from West hours before his interview with Timcast. “As a Black man in America, there is no room for bigotry or hate speech,” Pusha told the LA Times.
