After almost a full year away from Twitter, Kanye West is back. Once again, his tweets jump sporadically from thought to thought, from egomaniacal self-praise to motivational cliches like a game of brain Frogger. Then, he voiced his support for Trump, following it up with a picture of his MAGA hat.
You don’t have to agree with trump but the mob can’t make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone. I don’t agree with everything anyone does. That’s what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018
my MAGA hat is signed ?????????????????????????????? pic.twitter.com/DrDHJybS8V
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018
As a result, Kanye lost almost 10 million followers in 7 minutes.
.@KanyeWest loses 9.2 MILLION followers in less than 10 minutes after posting a photo of him wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat. pic.twitter.com/fXVZaUAMF0
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) April 25, 2018
Including: Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Justin Bieber, BTS, The Weeknd, Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, Katy Perry, and Nicki Minaj, to name a few.
On the flipside, the entire Trump family acknowledged and retweeted Kanye’s message.
Kanye also posted pictures of the inside of his house, calling it “the sunken place”— a reference to Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning film, Get Out. Kim was mad about it.
But she still ran to his Twitter defense, shaming “the media” for “demonizing” him and calling him “mentally unstable.” Mentally unstable, he may not be. But, dragon energy, though???
All of this is to say we get to make fun of Kanye, and we get to laugh, even though the reality of the situation is hell of depressing.
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i used to be the one defending kanye AGAINST white supremacists and now white supremacists are defending kanye against ME pic.twitter.com/SDsOlWffji
— jaboukie young-white (@jaboukie) April 25, 2018
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IT’S CALLED DRAGON ENERGY, IT’S A NEW THING KANYE AND I HAVE pic.twitter.com/Z7XDto4DmI
— Kelly (@kellyjoyrf) April 25, 2018
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Me a couple of months ago: “I miss Twitter Kanye”
Me today: pic.twitter.com/avcHzRgJ6g— AB (@alecbrooks2312) April 25, 2018
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Kanye not allowed to say the n word
— Dark Khaleesi ✨ (@Rana_ULT) April 25, 2018
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MAGA caps, khakis and Yeezy wave runner 700’s gonna be the hot look for the next tiki torch gathering
— Desus Nice (@desusnice) April 25, 2018
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Stanning Kanye then vs stanning Kanye now pic.twitter.com/XZjq8z4H2G
— dollar sign operator ?™ (@etchcafe) April 25, 2018
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someone said these the trump supporters listening to Kanye’s albums for the first time LMFAO pic.twitter.com/7RoTzO9JLL
— was @LILAFRIMANE (@LORAFRIMANE) April 25, 2018
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George Bush looking at Kanye tweets like pic.twitter.com/7Os3STkwSi
— Tony Stark Baby Momma (@KikiNarcotics2) April 25, 2018
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kim kardashian after going through kanye’s twitter pic.twitter.com/ZiCd9RSNtR
— towby✨ (@realtowby) April 25, 2018