--- 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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"We've been friends for a long time"_  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 25, 2018 8:58 PM UTC  NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 18: Kanye West seen out and about in Manhattan on December 18, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Robert Kamau/GC Images) NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 18: Kanye West seen out and about in Manhattan on December 18, 2017 in New York City. (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) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5254914/kanye-west-tweets-peter-thiel-donald-trump-internet-reactions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5254914/kanye-west-tweets-peter-thiel-donald-trump-internet-reactions/"},"headline":"People Are in Uproar Over Kanye West's Tweets About Donald Trump and Peter Thiel","datePublished":"2018-04-25T20:58:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:18.125Z","description":"Talk about missing the old Kanye","url":"https://time.com/5254914/kanye-west-tweets-peter-thiel-donald-trump-internet-reactions/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"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=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"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=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Celebrity Sightings in New York City - December 18, 2017","caption":"Celebrity Sightings in New York City - December 18, 2017","creditText":"Robert Kamau—GC Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5254914/kanye-west-tweets-peter-thiel-donald-trump-internet-reactions/","name":"People Are in Uproar Over Kanye West's Tweets About Donald Trump and Peter Thiel"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Yes, Donald Trump Just Met With Kanye West","description":"\"We've been friends for a long time\"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/lENyrXRN/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-12-13T15:34:22.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/lENyrXRN.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5254914/kanye-west-tweets-peter-thiel-donald-trump-internet-reactions/","duration":"PT1M3S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5254914/kanye-west-tweets-peter-thiel-donald-trump-internet-reactions/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```