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Kanye West says he ‘wasn’t stumped’ by Kimmel’s Trump question
We all fell in love with cool Kanye, ‘Heartless’ Kanye, the “Bush doesn’t care about Black people” Kanye. But we have to be honest with ourselves: that is the Kanye of yesteryear, he is long gone. Today we have “It’s good Tyga got in early [with Kylie]”, Kanye West Kardashian, poopity poop head@$$ Kanye.
Just yesterday we watched Jimmy Kimmel stump Kanye:
“You so famously and so powerfully said, ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people,’” Kimmel said, referring to comments West made at a 2005 benefit for Hurricane Katrina relief. “It makes me wonder what makes you think that Donald Trump does or any people at all?”
After four seconds of silence, Kimmel offered a lifeline, throwing to a commercial break and promising to let West answer later.
The question didn’t come up again.
Now, Kanye claims that he was not, in fact, ‘stumped’ by Kimmel.
“On Jimmy Kimmel we had a great time having a dialogue,” West tweeted Saturday. “I’m reading that I was stumped by a question. Let me clarify the click bait. I wasn’t stumped. I wasn’t given a chance to answer the question.”
He continued, “The question was so important I took time to think. And then I was hit with the let’s go to commercial break. That interview showed strong personalities with different opinions having a civil conversation.”
West also said that he was “so happy” to see Kimmel wearing a pair of Yeezys for the interview, which he interpreted as “an olive branch.”
Kimmel replied to West’s tweets Saturday evening.
“Not every question warrants an immediate answer,” he wrote. “Some answers need to be considered and a talk show with time constraints is a difficult place to do that. I know how much Kanye cares and I am so impressed by what he is doing quietly and without fanfare to help those who need it.”
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