--- title: Kanye West Trump White House Conference: Read the Transcript description: Rapper Kanye West visited President Trump at the White House on Thursday, delivering an extended series of off-the-cuff remarks. canonical: https://time.com/5422270/kanye-west-trump-speech/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-11T18:00:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2024-01-24T11:25:45.000Z og:title: What Kanye West Said to President Trump at the White House og:description: Here's exactly what Kanye West said at the White House meeting with Trump og:url: https://time.com/5422270/kanye-west-trump-speech/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt586c633651d64b7a/69893c69929fad8c86bf1cf3/kanye-west-donald-trump-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5184 og:image:height: 2916 og:image:alt: President Trump Hosts Kanye West And Former Football Player Jim Brown At The White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: What Kanye West Said to President Trump at the White House twitter:description: Here's exactly what Kanye West said at the White House meeting with Trump twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt586c633651d64b7a/69893c69929fad8c86bf1cf3/kanye-west-donald-trump-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's What Kanye West Said to President Trump at the White House > Sponsored content. 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Rapper Kanye West , left, shows a picture of a plane on a phone to U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval office of the White House on October 11, 2018 in Washington, DC.Pool—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Updated: Jan 24, 2024 11:25 AM UTCPublished: Oct 11, 2018 6:00 PM UTC When rapper [Kanye West](http://time.com/5422100/kid-rock-kanye-west-trump-white-house/) visited with [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/5419515/donald-trump-numbers-reelection/) at the White House Thursday, he had a few things to say. In an impassioned but sometimes difficult to follow 10-minute speech, West talked about the “male energy” of Trump’s 2016 campaign, the U.S. relationship with North Korea and his belief that he was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder. “I tell you what, that was pretty impressive,” Trump said after West had finished speaking. “It was from the soul,” West responded. “I just channeled it.” The Kanye West live stream above shows the pre-lunch meeting was also attended by former U.S. football player [Jim Brown](http://time.com/4602009/jim-brown-donald-trump/) and Trump’s son-in-law [Jared Kushner](http://time.com/5281226/kushner-family-666-fifth-avenue/). West has been publicly supportive of Trump for several months, giving a similar speech to the audience after a performance on _Saturday Night Live_ that was not aired. Here are some of the highlights from the full transcript of what Kanye West said at the Trump meeting. ## **Kanye West on uncertainty surrounding his bipolar diagnosis** --- > “” --- ## **Kanye West on the 13th Amendment** --- > “” --- ## **Kanye West on male energy** --- > “” --- ## **Kanye West on Adidas** --- > “” --- ## **Kanye West on Trump** --- > “” --- ## Kanye West on a 68-year-old prisoner whose case he was raising with Trump --- > “” --- ## Kanye West on his own speech --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5422270/kanye-west-trump-speech/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5422270/kanye-west-trump-speech/"},"headline":"Here's What Kanye West Said to President Trump at the White House","datePublished":"2018-10-11T18:00:01.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-24T11:25:45.000Z","description":"West shared an extended monologue","url":"https://time.com/5422270/kanye-west-trump-speech/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","celebrities","Kanye West","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt586c633651d64b7a/69893c69929fad8c86bf1cf3/kanye-west-donald-trump-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt586c633651d64b7a/69893c69929fad8c86bf1cf3/kanye-west-donald-trump-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Hosts Kanye West And Former Football Player Jim Brown At The White House","caption":"President Trump Hosts Kanye West And Former Football Player Jim Brown At The White House","creditText":"Pool—Getty 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/5422270/kanye-west-trump-speech/","name":"Here's What Kanye West Said to President Trump at the White House"}}]}] ```