“First of all, you’ve got to spend a lot of time dealing with a few odd characters who behave like they’re on a reality TV show”, Obama explained, obviously referencing ‘Ye’s relationship with Kim and her career as a reality TV star.
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In case you missed what was said “between the lines”, West’s fifth studio album, released in 2010, was titled My attractive Dark Twisted Fantasy, and Obama is also from the south side of Chicago, where Kanye West grew up.
Democratic leaders have so far been publicly muted in their response to the turmoil surrounding the race to replace Boehner, who stunned Capitol Hill last month in announcing his resignation from Congress after 25 years. “You don’t do that”.
The two have apparently buried the hatchet since 2009, when the President called Kanye West a “jackass” for interrupting Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards. It couldn’t get any stranger.
“As soon as I said that, it was like, ‘Wait a second, we would really be into that, because actually if you think about it, he’s extremely thoughtful”.
Obama was preceded on stage Saturday by Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who introduced the National Basketball Association championship-winning Golden State Warriors.
The rapper’s aspirations earlier won unlikely praise from real estate mogul Donald Trump, the acerbic front-runner in the Republican presidential race for 2016.
“Fanning intolerance isn’t going to solve the problem”, Obama said.
The White House said that Obama called Turkish President President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to express his condolences for the twin explosions Saturday that killed at least 95 people attending a peace rally in Ankara. “We’ve got to make a different choice”, he said. Obama said as the crowd cheered. “He knows that. Don’t try to pit us against each other”.
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Perhaps, West was just trying to stay on message.
