Former President Donald Trump hosted controversial figures, Nick Fuentes and rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday night for dinner, a guest also at the meeting told ABC News.
Trump met with Ye, who recently lost major business deals over antisemitic comments, and Fuentes, along with Florida Republican political operative Karen Giorno, Giorno confirmed with ABC News. The dinner lasted just under two hours.
Fuentes is a white nationalist who has made racist, sexist and antisemitic comments and has been banned on all major social media platforms.
Trump posted about the meeting on his social media platform on Friday, claiming he didn’t know Ye would be bringing other guests, but did not mention Fuentes.
“This past week, Kanye West called me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about,” Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social. “We had dinner on Tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. The dinner was quick and uneventful. They then left for the airport.”
A source at the dinner told ABC News that Ye asked Trump to be his vice president during the dinner and that toward the end of the meal the former president “started bad-mouthing Kim Kardashian,” Ye’s ex-wife.
In a statement to ABC News, former President Trump said, “Kanye West very much wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner meeting was intended to be Kanye and me only, but he arrived with a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about.”
Trump’s dinner with Fuentes and Ye comes just weeks after he announced his 2024 presidential bid.
Every American has the Constitutional RIGHT to be anti-semitic… if the jews can’t handle our freedoms, they need to move to evil theocracy Israel…
Trump loves attention and what better way to get it than to host certified despicable people.
On the other hand, anti-Semitic, sexist or racist comments should be condemned, BUT not censored.
Censorship is not our way.
Just because we use stereotypes does not make them right OR wrong. Stereotypes did not grew in a vacuum.
Sexist and racist comments are a different category from religion comments… sex and race are something we are born with and cannot be changed… evil religion addiction mental illness can be changed…
I am now confused. If somebody is Anti-Semitic, it is a racial comment, Semites are not limited to being Jewish. Jewish is a religion.
A Semite denomination refers to a family of languages in the region and Arabic is one of then as well as Hebrew.
Nothing to be ‘confused’ about… only the Jews ever complain about anti-semitism, including Jews who are totally indistinguishable in appearance from other caucasians… such as Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, and William Shatner… or from other blacks such as Sammy Davis Jr…
Jews consider being Jewish a race, religion, and nationality… they want everything… let’s just call it a ‘religion’… In theocracy Israel, Jews aren’t allowed to marry outside their religion… Israel is not the ‘democracy’ it pretends to be…