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Kanye West calls MAGA hat his ‘Superman cape’—and Twitter is agasp

Kanye’s White House speech got weird fast.

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Ellen Ioanes

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Kanye West joined President Donald Trump at the White House Thursday ostensibly to discuss prison reform, but ended up delivering a rambling monologue that touched on the 13th Amendment, his mental health, and his upbringing.

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Upon entering the Oval Office, West ran up to the president to hug him, later saying, “I love this man right here!”

West also talked about his childhood, saying, “My dad and my mom separated, so there was not a lot of male energy in my home and also I’m married to a family where, you know, there’s not a lot of male energy.”

West compared his red “Make America Great Again” cap to “a Superman cape,” saying the hat empowered him to do good.

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“There was something about when I put this hat on it made me feel like Superman. You made a Superman, that’s my favorite superhero, you made a Superman cape for me,” West said.

Twitter was not having this analogy.

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West also said that he had been mistakenly diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but is merely sleep-deprived and that he had been bullied for wearing his MAGA hat.

Regarding the 13th Amendment, which West has been criticized for saying should be abolished, he said, “Why would you keep something around that’s a trap door? If you’re building a floor, the Constitution is the base of our industry, of our country, of our company. Would you build a trap door that if you mess up and accidentally something happens, you fall and you end up next to the Unabomber? You got to remove all that trap door out of the relationship.” It is completely unclear what West meant by this.

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After West finished speaking, Trump called him a “smart cookie” and said that West could speak for him any time. Trump also suggested that West run for president.

 
The Daily Dot