In a culture war you can’t be too picky about who your friends are, even less your celebrities.
The stars never come out for President Donald Trump, not during his campaign and certainly not at his inauguration. Where President Obama danced an elegant waltz while Beyoncé sang At Last and Stevie Wonder, Puff Daddy and Sting looked on, Trump’s big moment was accompanied by the crooning of Erin Boehme (me neither).
Suddenly, things have changed. Kanye West – the rapper whose global celebrity is still juggernaut-sized despite not having released any decent music since 2007 – has done the previously unthinkable: he’s started tweeting pro-Trump messages.
Unsurprisingly, West’s tweets – which have included a picture of himself wearing a Make America Great Again cap personally signed by the President and the statement: “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” – have been seized on with glee by the right and caused fury and bewilderment on the liberal left.
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