--- title: Kanye West's Tweets About Trump, Peter Thiel Ignite Internet description: Kanye West's deluge of tweets about Donald Trump, free thought, and Peter Thiel have taken the Internet by storm. canonical: https://time.com/5254914/kanye-west-tweets-peter-thiel-donald-trump-internet-reactions/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-25T20:58:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:18.125Z og:title: Kanye West's Tweets About Trump, Peter Thiel Ignite Internet og:description: Talk about missing the old Kanye og:url: https://time.com/5254914/kanye-west-tweets-peter-thiel-donald-trump-internet-reactions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2a7e4eeaafb770a/69892eafbc6cfc14863e5c74/kanye-west-tweets-peter-thiel-donald-trump-internet-reactions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Celebrity Sightings in New York City - December 18, 2017 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kanye West's Tweets About Trump, Peter Thiel Ignite Internet twitter:description: Talk about missing the old Kanye twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2a7e4eeaafb770a/69892eafbc6cfc14863e5c74/kanye-west-tweets-peter-thiel-donald-trump-internet-reactions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Are in Uproar Over Kanye West's Tweets About Donald Trump and Peter Thiel > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Robert Kamau/GC Images) Robert Kamau—GC Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 25, 2018 8:58 PM UTC Rapper, designer, and avid [Twitter enthusiast Kanye West](http://time.com/5241412/kanye-west-back-on-twitter/) wrote a deluge of tweets on Wednesday afternoon that divided his many fans. As part of a [days-long Twitter spree](http://time.com/5254664/kanye-west-supports-donald-trump-twitter/), West sounded off on [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4599064/kanye-west-donald-trump-tower/), going so far as to call the president “my brother,” before delving into tweets about free thought, politics, life, philosophy, music, and his intention to take a meeting with Peter Thiel. West’s tweets immediately ignited the Internet, which wasted no time in weighing in on how they felt about the rapper’s tweets. West’s tweets even commanded the attention of some influential Twitter users, including Donald Trump himself, who took to Twitter to retweet and comment West’s tweet about him. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/989225812166696960) Kanye’s wife Kim Kardashian West also hopped on Twitter to defend her husband’s right to write controversial tweets. > [](https://twitter.com/KimKardashian/status/989225226490687488) However, Twitter still had plenty of opinions about Kanye. There were plenty of comparisons to _Get Out_‘s the “sunken place.” > [](https://twitter.com/JordanPeele/status/989241727725719553) > [](https://twitter.com/rembert/status/989223708702265346) > [](https://twitter.com/Travon/status/989230450378817536) > [](https://twitter.com/JoannaSimkin/status/989230580666683394) > [](https://twitter.com/GabbySidibe/status/989240465080791040) While others had jokes about Kanye’s mother-in-law and noted “momager,” Kris Jenner. > [](https://twitter.com/zara915/status/989229100987535361) > [](https://twitter.com/caseyjohnston/status/989227418224418822) > [](https://twitter.com/ehjovan/status/989228179310174209) > [](https://twitter.com/JamesHarness/status/989228275049422848) As might be predicted, there were also many, many tweets about the “old Kanye.” > [](https://twitter.com/mRiah/status/989234490164772864) > [](https://twitter.com/AJ%5FJeremiah/status/989231037296402432) > [](https://twitter.com/Eugene%5FScott/status/989236844486385665) ## Transcript [00:00] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Kanye, what are you doing here [00:04] today? Kanye, you meeting the President? Kanye! [00:09] Mr. Trump, Kanye, what did you guys [00:13] discuss in your meeting today? Just [00:17] friends, just friends. And he's a good man. [ NOISE ] [00:21] Going well, long time. We've been friends for a long [00:24] time. [ NOISE ] Life. [ NOISE ] President Elect of the [00:24] United States. [00:40] [ INAUDIBLE ]? I'm just wanting to [00:44] take a picture right now. [ LAUGH ] Mr. President Elect, [00:45] do you still plan on- Do you wish you were [00:45] [ UNKNOWN ], Kanye? Mr. President Elect- [00:45] [ UNKNOWN ] You take care of yourself. I'll see you [00:45] soon. All right. 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