Trump Calls You A ‘Seriously Troubled’ Man amid the Fallout from Mar-A-Lago Dinner
Just days after dining at Mar-a-Lago with Ye — the rapper previously known as Kanye West — and white supremacist political activist Nick Fuentes, Donald Trump is now calling Ye a “seriously troubled man.”
It was Trump’s third attempt on Truth Social to backpedal from his hugely controversial meeting last Tuesday with Holocaust denier Fuentes and Ye, whose antisemitic messages (in which he vowed to go “death con 3” on Jewish people) were recently blocked on Twitter.
“So I help a seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black,” Trump wrote Saturday, offering “very much needed ‘advice.’” Ye has “always been good to me,” Trump added.
The former president insisted yet again in the post that he didn’t know Fuentes, who accompanied Ye to dinner.
As of late Saturday Ye had not yet responded to Trump’s latest Truth Social message. He has talked openly about his bipolar disorder diagnosis, a condition he has also referred to as a “super power.”
As for Fuentes, Trump was “very impressed” with him, according to Ye. According to Axios and The New York Times, Trump was even said to have praised Fuentes at dinner. “He gets me,” the former president said, according to the Times.
Trump stated in all three posts that he did not know Fuentes.
Fuentes himself addressed the issue on Friday’s podcast.
“I don’t think he knew that I was me at the dinner” — at least initially, Fuentes laughed. “Let’s put it that way. I don’t know if I’m gonna say he didn’t know me. I’m not sure about that.”
Fuentes is a prominent right-wing extremist who is supported by Trump’s key allies, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar (R.Ariz.). Fuentes hosted a white supremacist conference in which both lawmakers spoke. The incident sparked heated debate, which was prominently and widely covered by media. Trump apparently did not notice it.
As for Ye’s appalling statements about Jews, Trump emphasized in an earlier Truth Social post that Ye “expressed no antisemitism” — at the dinner. Trump noted that he “appreciated all of the nice things [Ye] he said about me on ‘Tucker Carlson.’”
Ye first showed the dinner in a video on Friday. Ye claimed that he asked Trump for it. His vice president, and that Trump “screamed” at him.
Former Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie (R) told the Times Friday that Trump’s dinner makes him an “untenable” candidate for president.
“This is just another example of an awful lack of judgment from Donald Trump,” said Christie, who may make his own run for the presidency.
Matt Brooks, chief executive of the Republican Jewish Coalition, issued a statement, without naming Trump, saying: “We strongly condemn the virulent antisemitism of Kanye West and Nick Fuentes, and call on all political leaders to reject their messages of hate and refuse to meet with them.”
A message from the former U.S. Ambassador was also retweeted by the Republican Jewish Coalition. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman telling Trump his meeting with both the antisemitic Ye and Fuentes was “unacceptable.”