According to a story published on Tuesday, Donald Trump was upset after having dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home with artist Kanye West and white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
Donald Trump distanced himself from his white supremacist dinner guest Nick Fuentes’ views on Tuesday, claiming he did not know them and if he did, they ‘wouldn’t have been accepted’
Trump told Fox News on Tuesday that he did not know who Fuentes was, and he distanced himself from his prejudice in response to mounting pressure from other Republicans.
He stated, “I had never heard of the man; I had no notion what his opinions were, and they were not communicated at the table during our little supper, otherwise it would not have been accepted.”
Trump described the encounter as ‘unremarkable.’
He’s been fielding criticism for hosting Fuentes and Kanye West at his Mar-a-Lago resort last week
West, now known as Ye, stated in a video uploaded after the meeting claimed he informed Trump he was considering running for president in 2024 and that the former president should be his running mate.
The former president, who announced his own White House run two weeks ago, was ‘essentially shouting,’ the rapper said in a video dubbed ‘Mar-a-lago debrief’ on Twitter.
“He attempted to f*ck me. He is insane. According to NBC News, Trump allegedly told associates after the meal, “He can’t beat me.”
A Trump advisor told the newspaper that the meal ‘completely surprised’ the president.
One source who spoke to NBC News said they fear Trump’s meeting with Ye and Fuentes may propel Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ahead in GOP leadership polls ahead of the 2024 election
Tuesday, Donald Trump distanced himself from the beliefs of his white nationalist dinner guest Nick Fuentes, stating he was unaware of them and ‘wouldn’t have accepted’ them if he had.
Last week, he hosted Fuentes and Kanye West at his Mar-a-Lago property, drawing criticism.
Fuentes, a right-wing provocateur, denies the Holocaust and identifies as an incel.
It has now prompted a deluge of condemnation from both political parties. Both West and Fuentes have made anti-Semitic and other offensive statements.
Yiannopoulos, who claims to be an ‘ex-gay,’ resigned from his position at Breitbart in 2017 after he reportedly made comments condoning pedophilia
Two individuals familiar with the meal told NBC News that Trump was cautioned against having a meeting with Kanye West in light of the enormous outrage over anti-Semitic statements on Instagram and Twitter, which have resulted in the loss of major sponsors including as Adidas, Gap, and Balenciaga.
After the meal, a veteran Trump aide allegedly told NBC News, “This is a f***ing nightmare.”
The insider went on to express fear that the meeting may affect Trump’s prospects of winning the 2024 Republican nomination.
The insider stated, “If people are considering [Florida Governor Ron] DeSantis to run against Trump, here’s another reason why.”
A source who spoke with NBC News expressed concern that Trump’s meeting with Ye and Fuentes may boost Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to the top of GOP leadership polls before to the 2024 election.
Milo Yiannopoulos, a right-wing agitator and former intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene, boasted to the publication that he arranged the meeting “to make Trump’s life miserable.”
Yiannopoulos stated, “I wanted to show Trump the type of talent he is missing out on by letting his horrible managers to decide who he can and cannot associate with.”
Yiannopolous, who claims to be ‘ex-gay,’ is now advising Ye’s 2024 presidential campaign.
The former Breitbart editor who quit after allegedly allowing pedophilia asked former Trump 2016 campaign strategist Karen Giorno to attend the meeting in order to provide the organization more legitimacy.
For unknown circumstances, the fourth person joining them was a parent from West’s Donda Academy.
Yiannopoulos, who claims to be a ‘ex-gay,’ resigned from Breitbart in 2017 after he was believed to have condoned pedophilia in comments.
Like Trump, Giorno told NBC that she was unaware of Fuentes’ identity until it was too late. She apparently recognized that all three of her companions were wearing jeans, which violated the dining dress code of the country club.
West was apparently unaware of this previously and stated, “I doubt Nick will get in regardless.” When Giorno discovered Fuentes’ surname, she allegedly thought, “I’ll murder Milo.”
Once inside the club, the former Trump campaign assistant claimed she attempted to leave West and Trump to converse while attempting to bring the rapper’s two pals to the bar, but Trump let West to make the decision.
I’ll defer to Ye on that. Do you want them to join?’ the ex-president reportedly questioned.
“Let’s all eat,” suggested West.
In the past, the former president and the rapper were called “allies.”
Last week, sources told Axios that Trump was pleased by Fuentes’ ability to “recite figures and recall speeches from his 2016 campaign,” but that he had no idea who Fuentes was.
In a 2021 lawsuit, the Justice Department described Fuentes, an alt-right personality, as a ‘white supremacist’ and ‘America First’ podcaster.
Fuentes ‘jokingly’ disputed the Holocaust on an episode of his podcast and compared Jews burned in Nazi concentration camps to cookies in an oven.
Ye added in a video broadcast on Twitter that the former president was ‘impressed’ by Fuentes. The most recent statements surrounding the controversial meal follow Ye’s statement.
Ye stated, “Trump is very impressed with Nick Fuentes, and unlike so many of the attorneys and others he was left with on his 2020 campaign, Nick Fuentes is genuinely a loyalist.”
Fuentes once disputed the Holocaust in jest on an episode of his ‘America First’ podcast.
In a post on Truth Social following the publication of Ye’s video, Trump stated that he did not know Fuentes before to the meeting and provided an explanation for the meeting with the rapper.
Trump stated in the article, “Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, asked me for guidance with some of his troubles, particularly business-related.”
We also talked, to a lesser extent, politics, where I advised him not to run for president and urged whatever votes he may have to support Donald Trump.
Anyway, we got along wonderfully, he didn’t exhibit any anti-Semitism, and I much appreciate all the kind things he said about me on “Tucker Carlson.” Why would I not consent to a meeting? Also, I am unfamiliar with Nick Fuentes.
West, 45, was spotted traveling with Fuentes as he traveled to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida ahead of a meal with the former president.
In a two-minute campaign advertisement broadcast on Twitter last week, Ye, who has been criticized for denigrating Jewish people, elaborated on these proposals.
A day earlier, West was spotted traveling with Fuentes as he travelled to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.
In the brief footage, West provided his own account of the meeting, during which he reportedly discussed his presidential ambitions with the former commander-in-chief, who last week declared his own revived candidacy for the White House.
Identify Nick Fuentes.
Nick Fuentes, at 24 years old, is a well-known alt-right activist and Holocaust denier.
In 2017, his attendance at the “Unite the Right” protest in Charlottesville, Virginia propelled him to fame.
Fuentes identifies himself as a ‘Christian conservative’ and claims to oppose ‘leftist’ cultural shifts.
Fuentes’s YouTube channel was permanently disabled for breaking the website’s hate speech policy.
He has also asserted that “whites are under attack” and that minority groups in the United States are altering the “texture of life.”
During an episode of his podcast ‘America First,’ the guy ‘jokingly’ compared Jews who were burned in Nazi concentration camps to cookies in an oven.
After former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, the 24-year-old helped organize several’stop the theft’ protests preceding the January 6 rebellion at the United States Capitol.
In an official lawsuit filed in 2021, the DOJ referred to Fuentes as a “white supremacist.”
The unexpected campaign teaser, titled ‘Mar-a-Lago debrief,’ arrives only days after West was sighted in Beverly Hills with the white nationalist, who has become one of the prominent leaders of the far-right for his views on Jews and other minorities.
Tuesday, they were photographed outside the former president’s Florida private club after traveling to Miami together.
West, who was terminated by Adidas and many other firms last month for his antisemitic remarks, praises Fuentes in the video while slamming Trump, whom he claims flatly declined his running mate request out of anger.
Trump was most agitated by my request for him to be my vice president, Kanye claimed in a tape shared to his newly-unlocked Twitter account on Thanksgiving night.
He said, ‘I believe that was lower on the list of things that surprised him.
It was the fact that I was intelligent when I entered.
He went on to accuse the former president of succumbing to cancel culture by removing mercurial cabinet officials such as Karen Giorno and Steve Bannon and isolating himself from other prominent personalities such as Fuentes owing to their beliefs.
West would go on to praise Fuentes as a ‘Trump loyalist,’ highlighting his support for the assault of the Capitol by Trump supporters on January 6, 2021.
‘Unlike so many of the attorneys and some of the individuals [Trump] was left with on his 2020 campaign, Nick Fuentes is genuinely a loyalist,’ West added in a video with the hashtag #YE24.
“When all the attorneys said, ‘Forget it, Trump’s done,’ there must have been White House supporters racing up, right?” West followed by referencing the politician’s futile attempts to contest his loss to incumbent President Joe Biden.
The Justice Department labeled Fuentes a ‘white supremacist’ in 2021.
The far-right political commentator compared Jews who perished in Nazi concentration camps to baked cookies.
West then criticized the president for doing nothing to assist the hundreds of Americans who were being persecuted for their role in the uprising.
Why, when you had the opportunity, didn’t you release the January 6ers? West questioned incredulously while seated at a counter at his studio in Los Angeles and conversing with an interviewer.
The rapper then gives Trump advise, advising him to ‘go and grab these folks who the media wanted to cancel,’ disregarding his own recent difficulties with the media and his failed 2020 presidential candidacy.
The film then flashes images of former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, Trump friend Roger Stone, and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to represent some of the divisive characters the former president has allegedly alienated.
The rapper had previously claimed that Yiannopoulos is a former Breitbart editor and alt-right commentator.
What is the identity of Milo Yiannopoulos?
Milo Yiannopoulos, 38, is a British-American conservative pundit with a right-wing viewpoint.
Yiannopoulos once served as an editor and writer for Breitbart.
The former president and rapper have been considered ‘allies’ in the past
The analyst was forced to retire in 2017 after defending pedophilia in statements.
Clips he allegedly shared online showed him claiming that sexual encounters with minors as young as 13 may be “absolutely consenting.”
Yiannopoulos opposed Islam, feminism, and political correctness.
In 2016, he was permanently banned from Twitter for organizing a campaign of harassment against the black actress Leslie Jones.
Additionally, he advocated in 2018 for vigilantes to shoot journalists.
Yiannopoulos asserts he is a “ex-gay” and that homosexuality is a choice.
The commentator interned for Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green in 2022.
Ye has widely predicted that Yiannopoulos will seek for president in 2024.
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