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.
POTUS mentioned Kanye’s support last night at his WV rally.
Kanye West is finding out what happens if you’re black, and you try to stray from the Democrat plantation.
Now he’s a black candidate I could get behind.
Just because you didn’t like Obama doesn’t make you a racist, something I have told my children often. It’s not about skin color, it’s about policies and philosophy.
Left to Kanye West: “Stay on the plantation n-word”
Glad to hear that!
A new world is forming. Celebrity status is shifting.
The dinosaur awards mean nothing now.
OMG! I am from Chicago and would love that! Kanye, set up a meeting with Rudy Guliani... ;)
This is another example of something pro Trump happens and the media THINKS they can smother it and no one knows about it. Ha ha ha nice try. The SNL audience was probably a bit more Black than usual and they saw and heard it all. That’s all that is necessary. We don’t need the 6 O’clock news to cover it; they never would. The right people saw this.
SNL has become as much a Democrat sounding board as NAACP, Southern Poverty Law Center, the Mainstream Media, etc.
The red wave is coming. He is actually speaking truth to power. He will continue to peel away people from the plantation.
We need to be praying for the protection of all who are standing for righteousness.
Satan doesn’t care who he takes out, although with famous people more likely to influence others, they would more likely be in the cross hairs.
Trump gave a shout out to Kanye at the W Virginia rally last night. So he knew it was coming. Trump is a media genius, at a time when the media is the enemy of the nation.
These are amazing times.
Say what you please ...the guy’s got guts!!!
Kanye is speking to the vast array of Hollywood ignorati that lack the intlectual wherewithall to think beyond what they are force fed.
Hey, maybe Al Franken could get his old job back at SNL; writing bad comedy and then trying to perform in front of the camera himself. I hear he is groping at straws looking for something useful to do. Too bad for a guy whose professional highlight will be as "Baggage Handler #2."
Wow. Got to give Kanye West credit. He has a huge following. Not sure if it was smart to bully him.
Trump is amazing: fighter, conservative, deal maker, entertainer, patriot, achiever,and brave to a fault.
What worries me us there is no one to step into his shoes,
Am I missing comments from Chris Rock? All I see is that he continued videotaping him after SNL cut Kanye off and shared it on Instagram. Did he comment on Instagram?
Lorne Michaels had to know Kanye would do that.
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