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Dave ChappelleconsidersKanye West“my brother” — but he thinks that the rapper “shouldn’t say all that s—” in support of PresidentDonald Trump.
“I’m not mad at Kanye,” the comedian, 45, toldCNN’s Van Jonesin a segment that aired Saturday but was filmed before Westvisited the White House on Thursday. “That’s my brother. I love him. I support him. But you know, I don’t have to agree with everything that he says. I just trust him as a person of intent. But yeah, he shouldn’t say all that s—.”
During the lengthy discussion in the Oval Office, West, 41, mentioned his mental health, hisfondness for the Make America Great Again hat,Hillary Clintonand theKardashians, along with other topics.
West alsorecently gave a pro-Trump rantafter appearing as theSaturday Night Livemusical guest andcalled first for abolishing and then for amendingthe 13th Amendment.
Calling West an “artist” and a “genius,” Chappelle said, “I think that the angle he’s seeing things from is about the division that he sees, and he’s not inconsistent with what he’s saying.” He noted that he once read that West had sought to “re-appropriate” the Confederate flag.
Months afterannouncing that he had bipolar disorder, Westtold Trump that he was “misdiagnosed.”Commenting that he had a “98 percentile IQ test,” West said that a doctor told him that “I wasn’t actually bipolar; I had sleep deprivation which can cause dementia 10 to 20 years from now when I wouldn’t even remember my son’s name.”
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A sourcetold PEOPLE that those close to West“are telling him that he needs to get back on his medication, that he’s not doing well, that he’s not making any sense.”
“Now he’s in the Oval Office, and he’s doing the same rant, and that’s going to validate his rants,” the source noted.
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Earlier in October, an insidertold PEOPLEthat West is struggling near the 11th anniversary of his motherDonda’s death in November.
“If you remember, it was a year ago that this happened … almost exactly a year ago,” the insider said. “It happens every fall as we get close to the anniversary of his mom’s death.”
In the interview, Chappelle analogized the state that the country will be in after theTrump administrationto a relationship that has had problems.
“The thing that’s scary about this presidency is after it,” he said. “I don’t know if you’ve been married before or had a girlfriend and said something in a fight that was so wrong, and then after that we’re still family, we’re still around each other, but man, I sure did say all that s—, didn’t I?”
source: people.com
