'Let's break one last window'
Before he was booted off Twitter once again, Kanye West‘s very unhinged week ended with his claims that he “caught” his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, having an affair with NBA star Chris Paul.
West, who earlier in the day praised Hitler during an appearance with Infowars host Alex Jones, wrote that he was planning to “break one last window” before calling it a night.
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“Before we get outta here, I caught this guy with Kim,” the Grammy winner, 45, claimed in a post captured by Page Six. “Goodnight.”
Social media users, who eagerly watched the Yeezy designer descend into sheer craziness during his chat with Jones, were quick to poke fun at Paul for being dragged into the rapper’s unhinged vortex.
“Chris Paul really bout to lose his only ring thanks to Kanye,” one person wrote sharing a photo of Paul and his wife Jada Crawley, to whom the Phoenix Suns point guard has been married since 2011.
Meanwhile, other users shared a photo of Drake, who has feuded with West over the years, laughing with some of his friends wearing Chris Paul jerseys. “Drake was playing mind games the whole time with Kanye back when when CLB was dropping? Had all the homies in a Chris Paul Jersey while he was beefing with Kanye. Damn,” one follower wrote, while another called Drake’s apparent swipe “psychological warfare.
A third viral reaction featured a smiling GIF of the villainous Homelander from The Boys. “Kanye watching Twitter forget about him being a Nazi by ruining Chris Paul’s marriage,” they sniped.
West’s night was capped off when Twitter CEO Elon Musk suspended the controversial musician after he posted an image of a swastika inside a Star of David.
“I tried my best. Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended,” Musk tweeted.
But prior to being scrubbed off social media, the All of the Lights rapper waded into the Balenciaga scandal that has embroiled the luxury brand after they launched an ad campaign featuring children and BDSM imagery.
“I stand by Balenciaga and denounce all witch hunts and I cancel cancel culture,” he wrote late Thursday night in a tweet captured by Page Six. “Jesus is King. Ending trafficking doesn’t start or end with a fashion campaign for Christ Sake.”
Last weekend, the fashion mogul had used perceived silence on the unfolding scandal, including from Kardashian, as proof that celebrities are being “controlled.”
“It shows you all celebrities are controlled. You don’t see no celebrities talking about the Balenciaga situation,” West said when leaving church. “That just shows you all of these celebrities out here, don’t let them influence you in any way because they’re controlled by the people who really influence the world.”
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West’s very bad day started with an appearance on Infowars in which he said he sees “good things about Hitler.”
“Every human being has something of value that they’ve brought to the table — especially Hitler,” West said, doubling down on racist rants he made on social media last month. “Also Hitler was born Christian.”
Wearing a black mask, West went on to blame the “Jewish media” for making it seem “like the Nazis and Hitler have never offered anything to the world.”
When Jones said that West had a “Hitler fetish,” West replied: “I like Hitler.” Elsewhere in his discussion, West mocked Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, questioned the Holocaust (“[Hitler] didn’t kill six million Jews. That’s just factually incorrect”), and praised Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“This is absolutely lit. This is lit, lit, lit, lit, lit, lit,” Jones exclaimed as West spewed nonsense.
West was suspended from Twitter in early October after saying in a post that he was going to go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.” His rant lead to the loss of billions of dollars as brand partnerships with Adidas, Gap and Balenciaga were cancelled.
He attempted to buy the right wing-leaning social media site Parler in October, but the company said this week that the deal was off the table.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump was left trying to rehabilitate his 2024 campaign after West showed up for dinner at the former president’s Palm Beach resort Mar-a-Lago with Nick Fuentes, an avowed racist and Holocaust denier.
Trump said he met with West to offer him advice after he had been “decimated in his business and virtually everything else.”
“He shows up with 3 people, two of which I didn’t know, the other a political person who I haven’t seen in years. I told him don’t run for office, a total waste of time, can’t win. Fake News went CRAZY!”
According to advisers who spoke with the Washington Post on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential conversations with him, Trump thought the controversy would blow over.
“I think it’s dying down,” they recalled Trump saying.
mdaniell@postmedia.com