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MSNBC hosts completely melted down on Thursday soon after rapper Kanye West visited the White House and excoriated Democrats for not supporting President Donald Trump.
During a segment on MSNBC’s “Power Lunch,” co-hosts Stephanie Ruhle and Ari Melber absolutely lost their minds after a video from the Oval Office showed West going on a 10-minute ambush against the media for opposing Trump and his America First policies.
“If you think you’re going to get a thoughtful, play-by-play of political analysis, you’re not,” Ruhle began, visibly angered. “Because that was an assault on our White House!”
“You can’t even analyze some of the stuff that was said,” Melber replied, playing up the theatrics for the camera. “That was crazy. Some of the things Kanye said were crazy.”
Ruhle jumped in and attacked West for sharing his personal story for supporting Trump and the “Make America Great Again” movement.
Ruhle and Melber went on to claim the word “Again” in Trump’s phrase was racial. They argued that it leads many African-Americans to believe Trump — who they called a white male — wanted to return the country back to the days when the atrocities of slavery were taking place.
Watch below:
Crying at this MSNBC meltdown reaction to Kanye West in the Oval Office."That was an assault on our White House!"Hosts spiral into hysteria over how MAGA is male dominated and means white supremacy?Literal lol. pic.twitter.com/nLCX1WR654— Benny (@bennyjohnson) October 11, 2018
The entire MSNBC segment was a train wreck as they both melted down on live television. But they only cherry-picked many of the comments West actually made on Thursday while in the Oval Office.
With a room full of cameras and reporters, West stood in front of Trump while wearing his red “MAGA” hat.
“Liberals try to control black people through the concept of racism because they know we’re very proud people. When I said ‘I like Trump’ to a liberal they’ll say, ‘Oh, but he’s racist.’ You think racism can control me? Oh, that don’t stop me. That’s an invisible wall,” Kanye passionately said.
“Trump is on his hero’s journey right now,” West said. “He might not have thought he’d have a crazy mother-f**ker like Kanye running up to support.”
“We have to release the love throughout the country…” West added.
Trump then praised West for his remarks.
“He can speak for me any time he wants. He’s a smart cookie,” Trump said. “He gets it.”
“It was from the soul,” West replied, “I just channeled it.”
When reporters asked if he thinks West is presidential material, Trump replied, “Could very well be.”
“Only after, 2024,” West replied, with a big applause coming out of the room.
Below are a few clips of West’s comments:
🔥Kanye🔥"Liberal try to control black people through the concept of racism bc they know we're very proud people. When I said 'I like Trump' to a liberal they'll say, 'Oh, but he's racist.'You think racism can control me?! Oh, that don't stop me. That's an invisible wall" pic.twitter.com/aF04cJqvuA— Benny (@bennyjohnson) October 11, 2018
Kanye West to President Trump: “People expect that if you’re black you have to be Democrat.” pic.twitter.com/9rpGoWPZjq— Kyle Morris (@RealKyleMorris) October 11, 2018
A lot of people strongly agree with West’s argument against African-Americans automatically believing they have to be a Democrat.
While the rapper sometimes makes controversial comments, his support for Trump and argument that the black community should think for themselves and not allow Democrats to brainwash them has been pretty powerful.
But more importantly, it was also simultaneously comical and chilling to see MSNBC hosts smearing West the way that they did. Apparently African-Americans supporting Trump, wearing the red “MAGA” hat, and denouncing liberals is “crazy” and “absurd” now, according to these liberal MSNBC hosts.
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