Yeezus, can we start 2016 over again?
Cai Trefor and Olly Telling

15:01 14th December 2016

More about: Kanye West

Yesterday, on 13 December 2016, Kanye West paid a visit to Trump Towers. Somebody took a picture of him and the President-elect. The meteoric reaction across social media to this somewhat unexpected, slightly unsurprising tryst between two of America’s most recognisable figures has been perhaps as much an unfortunately candid indicator of our times as the presidential election campaign itself.

“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude”, George Orwell once famously quipped. Here we collate for you the “political attitudes” people have published to the world concerning this most provocative of meetings between two modern American characters.

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Someone bricking it about Trump’s unorthodox way of using his time as leader.

 

God somehow adapted The Rolling Stone headline to appear as though they wrote it as so:

More does need to be done to raise awareness of the realities on the ground. The UN suggests nearly half a million people have been killed in this conflict, becoming one of the biggest humanitrian disasters of the century.

 

And on the other end of the spectrum…… Perhaps it’s just these “left wingers” don’t trust a man who’s campaigned for segregation and the exile of Muslims from America.

 

The hypocrisy has been called out….

 

The ludicrious nature of politics in the 21st Century and the anxiety that more unqualified personalities could take office is a very real one.

 

 

The possibility of alienating his friends through allying with Trump is something West surely knows he'll have to deal with now.

 

More about: Kanye West

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