Posted on 09/30/2018 1:08:09 AM PDT by beaversmom
Kanye West delivered a speech about President Trump and other political topics to the "Saturday Night Live" audience in the room following one of his performances early Sunday evening.
After he performed "Ghost Town" at the end of the 44th season premiere for "SNL," West, who wore a red "Make America Great Again" hat, said he was bullied backstage due to his choice of head-ware.
"They bullied me backstage. They said, 'don't go out there with that hat on. They bullied me backstage. They bullied me! And then they say I'm in a sunken place," he said. "You want to see the sunken place? Okay, I'ma listen to ya'll now -- or I'ma put my Superman cape on, cuz this means you can't tell me what to do. Follow your heart and stop following your mind. That's how we're controlled. That's how we're programmed. If you want the world to move forward, try love."
Turning to the people gathered behind him on stage, West said, "Thank ya'll for giving me this platform. I know some of ya'll don't agree, but ya'll be going at that man ... and I don't think it's actually that helpful. I think the universe has balance. Ninety percent of news are liberal."
He continued: "90 percent of TV, L.A., New York, writers, rappers, musicians. So it's easy to make it seem like it's so one-sided."
West's comments came at the end of the show, which has become a mainstay of jokes critical of Trump and his administration. Earlier in the evening, the episode began with a cold open that focused on last week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The skit largely mocked Kavanaugh and the GOP senators who were present at the hearing.
Even after NBC cut the feed, West continued to address the audience in the studio in New York City.
Comedian Chris Rock captured some of the speech, which he shared on Instagram.
“I wanna cry right now, black man in America, supposed to keep what you feel in side right now," he said, singing again while standing in front of fellow rapper Kid Cudi, "SNL" cast members, and others on the stage.
He then spoke about Democrats and welfare.
“The blacks want always Democrats...," he said, adding later: "You know it’s like the plan they did, to take the fathers out the home and promote welfare. Does anybody know about that? That’s a Democratic plan.”
He also dismissed talk of Trump being racist.
“There’s so many times I talk to, like, a white person about this and they say, ‘How could you like Trump? He’s racist.’ Well, uh, if I was concerned about racism I would’ve moved out of America a long time ago," he said.
Other parts of the Instagram Story included members of the audience booing West, and near the end showed him talking about the need for a "dialogue, and not a diatribe" in order to make change.
West has been a vocal defender of Trump, telling all his haters earlier this year that they can’t make him not love the man even if he doesn’t agree with everything Trump does.
His wife, Kim Kardashian West, has worked with Trump and the White House to address the topic of prison reform.
The president granted clemency to 63-year-old Alice Johnson in June after Kardashian met with Trump in the Oval Office. Earlier this month, she visited the White House to push for the release of Chris Young, a 30-year-old serving a life sentence for a drug conspiracy.
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Kanye West says he was ‘bullied’ backstage at ‘SNL’ for MAGA hat, riffs about Trump, Democrats after feed cut
All right, Kanye.
Shout out, to another Trump fan. :D
Ping.
How dare we Make America Great Again?
I truly hope he can keep his strength up for the long haul. They call it a ‘diatribe.’ He was simply talking to them and they didn’t want to hear it. Doesn’t make it a diatribe. LOL I am glad he’s hearing the President clearly!
“They bullied me backstage. They bullied me! And then they say I’m in a sunken place,” he said. “You want to see the sunken place? Okay, I’ma listen to ya’ll now — or I’ma put my Superman cape on, cuz this means you can’t tell me what to do. Follow your heart and stop following your mind. That’s how we’re controlled. That’s how we’re programmed. If you want the world to move forward, try love.”
Turning to the people gathered behind him on stage, West said, “Thank ya’ll for giving me this platform. I know some of ya’ll don’t agree, but ya’ll be going at that man ... and I don’t think it’s actually that helpful. I think the universe has balance. Ninety percent of news are liberal.”
He continued: “90 percent of TV, L.A., New York, writers, rappers, musicians. So it’s easy to make it seem like it’s so one-sided.”
Kanye is speaking truth to the fascist totalitarian Communist power.
Please forgive the double-ping.
But I have a feeling that this moment is a political tremor.
Things are on the verge of something massive. Just one small part, but at the tip.
I worry for him. If the Communist-Totalitarian-Fascist media-entertainment industrial complex can’t get Kanye West back on the plantation, they’re going to make sure harm comes to him. He’s a clear and present danger to these Satanic forces.
It would be like Reagan getting ad space in Pravda!
This is a tremor.
Good point. But isn’t it interesting that they tried to intimidate him back-stage?
I suppose they will try to destroy his reputation. But he obviously knows that.
NBC is Comcast.
Comcast hates Conservative America.
Dump Comcast.
When a leftist states his mind to a captive audience, it’s called “having a conversation”.
Chris Rock used up be somewhat fair-minded. I guess his career has gone downhill enough that he can’t afford not to criticize Kanye’s blackness if he still wants any kind of work.
In the eyes of Lorne Michaels, what Kanye did was even more an unforgivable abomination than when Sinead O'Connor tore John Paul II's photo into pieces.
MountainWalker, I was very surprised by Chris Rock’s attitude. You are probably correct in the assessment of his earnings causing a change in his attitude. Sad.
Amen brother!!! I love it. All I can say is the man is right and right on!!!
He’s going to be fine. God’s already overcome evil. There is no match for the power of God and Kanye knows this and is not scared. This is a lesson for us all. We ALL need to be utilizing the power of prayer right now against the enemy you speak of.
He’s gonna need a Kevlar hat for the back of his head.
The country of Belgium ignited its revolution because of a single performance of an opera.
Kanye West has a lot more fans than a Brussels audience circa 1830.
Communist-Totalitarian-Fascist media-entertainment industrial complex
And combined it too with
these Satanic forces.
You lassoed the evil with these words perfectly.
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