--- title: Kanye West Is Having Lunch With President Trump description: Kanye West will visit President Trump in the White House, two years after the pair first met in Trump Tower. canonical: https://time.com/5419295/kanye-west-trump-white-house/ author: Ciara Nugent article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-09T13:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T17:08:44.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump Will Have Lunch With Kanye West This Week og:description: Jared Kushner will join them og:url: https://time.com/5419295/kanye-west-trump-white-house/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8509e37cffcd60e/69893c274ee26250333130f2/gettyimages-629490034.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President-Elect Donald Trump Holds Meetings At Trump Tower og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Will Have Lunch With Kanye West This Week twitter:description: Jared Kushner will join them twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8509e37cffcd60e/69893c274ee26250333130f2/gettyimages-629490034.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Will Have Lunch With Kanye West This Week  by [Ciara Nugent](https://time.com/author/ciara-nugent/)  ## Ciara Nugent Updated: Dec 12, 2023 5:08 PM UTCPublished: Oct 9, 2018 1:00 PM UTC  President-elect Donald Trump and Kanye West walk into the lobby at Trump Tower, December 13, 2016 in New York City. President-elect Donald Trump and Kanye West walk into the lobby at Trump Tower, December 13, 2016 in New York City.Drew Angerer/Getty Images  by [Ciara Nugent](https://time.com/author/ciara-nugent/)  ## Ciara Nugent Updated: Dec 12, 2023 5:08 PM UTCPublished: Oct 9, 2018 1:00 PM UTC President Trump will have lunch with Kanye West on Thursday, the White House says. “Kanye West is coming to the White House to have lunch with President Trump and he will also meet with Jared Kushner,” said White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders. “Topics of discussions will include manufacturing resurgence in America, prison reform, how to prevent gang violence, and what can be done to reduce violence in Chicago.” The meeting, first reported by [The New York _Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/politics/trump-kanye-west-meeting.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur), comes after Kanye’s controversial Sept. 29 _Saturday Night Live_ appearance in which he gave an unscripted speech praising the President and denouncing the Democratic Party. Some Kanye fans and _SNL_ cast members denounced the move. The pair previously [met at Trump Tower in 2016](http://time.com/4599064/kanye-west-donald-trump-tower/), soon after West [first voiced his support](http://time.com/4577999/kanye-west-rant-sacramento-beyonce-hillary-clinton/) for Trump, then President-elect. Since then, Kanye has repeatedly spoken about his appreciation for Trump [on social media](http://time.com/5254664/kanye-west-supports-donald-trump-twitter/) and has appeared wearing hats emblazoned with the Trump campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” Kim Kardashian, West’s wife, met with the President in the Oval Office in June. They discussed the life sentence of grandmother Alice Marie Johnson on drug charges. [Trump commuted the sentence a week later](http://time.com/5312125/kim-kardashian-alice-johnson-interview/). **Correction Oct. 9** The original version of this article misstated the date of the lunch. 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