Trump Has Lunch At White House With Kanye West
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said the criminal justice system was unfair to African-Americans and he would discuss remedies on Thursday with musician Kanye West and former football player Jim Brown.
The Republican president has advocated prison reform and said he was open to changes in sentencing guidelines, an issue that divides the Republican Party between "law and order" hardliners and moderates.
"There are people in jail for really long terms," Trump said in an interview with Fox News. "We do need reform. And that doesn't mean easy. We're going to make certain categories tougher, when it comes to drug dealing and other things.
"It's very unfair to African-Americans it's very unfair to everybody. And it's also very costly."
He said he would overrule his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who has balked at efforts to reduce sentences served by convicts and is unlikely to support new ones.
"Well if he doesn't then he gets overruled by me, because I make the decisions, he doesn't," Trump said.
Trump planned to have lunch with West, one of his most famous celebrity supporters, and Brown, a prison reform advocate.
In June, Trump commuted the life sentence of a woman for a first-time drug offense whose cause was taken up by celebrity Kanye West's wife, Kim Kardashian West. Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old from Tennessee, had served more than 20 years in prison on drug conspiracy and money laundering charges.
Trump claims Kanye West as a friend and a "different kind of a guy" whose big following in the African-American community helped boost his approval ratings. Asked if he would consider campaigning with the rapper, Trump said, "I could see it. I could see it."
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The love fest of the extreme narcissists. At least football great Jim Brown will be there to lend some reality to the occasion.
Kanye West was not the product of a hard knock upbringing on mean urban streets. His mother was a university professor, and Kanye went to a private high school in a nearly all white suburb of Chicago. He was middle class all the way.
I saw him on a clip from a Jimmy Kimmel show and Kanye appears basically, well, nuts. He and trump are a good team.
appears basically, well, nuts
Nuts is a given considering the family he married into.
Those poor kids.
And trump has tasted them.
Nixon saw drug use as tied to his two main political enemies: the antiwar left and black people.
“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black people,” former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman told Baum, “but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.”
No surprise that Nixon was doing things like that.
I know a lot of people that do drugs. (The use of Marijuana amongst people I know is exploding. But most of them are not Black.) And I suppose you could consider Alcohol a drug....and tobacco.
(Interestingly I actually don'y know a single person who smokes (tobacco)...but no one I know has a strong death wish.
As far as the anti-war crowd goes-- I haven't seen much anti-war action amongst activists (I believe I read that the war in Afghanistan is longest war in history...every once in a while some American kid is killed or maimed-- but it seems people have stopped caring about that-- or even thinking about it).
Do we have an issue with this, if the result is some positive reform?
It seems some among us can never see a rainbow, and hate it when good things happen.
WTF was good about that meeting? Seriously, did you LISTEN to what West SAID? West spewed out a word salad, said 'motherfucker' in the Oval Office on LIVE TV and Trump said it was a great statement.
It was a disgusting spectacle and an embarrassment to the country.
A few drops of oil in a mudpuddle is not a rainbow.
The real reason for the meeting was to discuss Kim Kardashian's new upcoming role as US Ambassador to the United Nations.
Nah, Kanye ( now YE) says he's going to run for President as an Independent in 2020
he's just looking for tips on how to win biggly.
Would he have Snoop Dog as his VP, Lil Kim as SOS, and Lil Bow Wow as the SOTH?
I wonder if trump will run again? (He may be impeached ??? by then if the Dems take the House in November-- so he may resign like Nixon did???
If Kanye runs he will probably get as many votes as a Libertarian or Green Party candidate. Which is to say...not many!
MSNBC is playing part of the oval office meeting between West and trump.
Kanye actually, literally, brought up alternate universes with the president of the United States.
He also spent much of the time talking about himself. Another disgraceful day in the USA.
Oh, he also said that Trump enabled him to imagine himself as Superman.
Kanye West is mentally ill.
West just said he plays "4D chess" with reporters. lol.
There are enough prominent mentally ill narcissists running around in the forefront of this country. It's a shame.
Maybe Kanye is Q.
Now YE says he won't run for POTUS until 2024 out of respect for Trump.
What a media circus, even Trump was speechless by West's monologue, lol
Qwazy.
Previously diagnosed as bipolar, now he says that was wrong, he's just sleep deprived.
Oh and he claims to be an opioid addict who started out with 3 a day (prescribed, of course) and graduated to 7 a day ( again, prescribed)
who now only takes one or two a week.
That is description of an attention addict, who knows little about opioid addiction.
I saw that, "Ye" is way nuts.
Trump was speechless for a minute. You don't see that very often.
He’s most vulnerable when he’s outcrazied.
Elect a clown, expect a circus.
Kanye West is mentally ill.
There's an old saying:
Birds of a feather flock together....
“CNN Tonight,” hosted by Don Lemon.
"When Negroes don't read", "Has no depth", "Anti-intellectual" and "He's a token black." Snicker, Snicker, whoa...… LOL....hahahahaha [ !" ]
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"Sweeping Generalization"
The MSM on National TV proves it to be true time in and time out.
Here is just ONE paragraph of West's word salad that Trump called a 'great statement':
The dude is mentally ill and Trump thinks he's prophetic.
In non-Kanye White House news today -
Kanye says Hillary's campaign slogan made him feel un-manly.
I guess misogyny can do that to you.
Nice to know trump was having a good old time with his little friend Kanye....while 6+ people were just killed and thousands of American's homeless is a historic hurricane... But trump is too busy with his little friends. Maybe he will do something for these people when he gets off the back 9.
Trump is truly Asshole Of The Year.
Better than yesterday?
Is truly a shame that the Trump may get away with everything. I look for all investigations to be ended.
I wonder. The Khashoggi assassination. Have the Saudis protected themselves and Trump from years of dirty dealings being revealed?
I thought Kanye was invited to the WH for lunch. What was on the menu? Accolades and bs?