Trump Doesn’t ‘Get’ Comparisons To Kanye But Says ‘He’s A Nice Guy’

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Donald Trump embraced Kanye West’s announcement that he will run for president in 2020, but said he was confused by comparisons between himself and the rapper.

“Somehow there are comparisons made so often, which is interesting. Comparisons with Kanye and myself — I don’t quite get it,” Trump told Rolling Stone in an interview published on Wednesday.

But Trump praised Kanye nonetheless, noting that he has said “extremely positive things” about Trump.

“He’s said very nice things about me in the past,” he told Rolling Stone. “He’s actually a different kind of person than people think. He’s a nice guy. I hope to run against him someday.”

West recently appeared at a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton along with his wife, Kim Kardashian. Yet President Obama allegedly called West a “jackass” after the rapper interrupted Taylor Swift on stage during the 2009 MTV video music awards.

Watch Trump’s comments on West via Rolling Stone:

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  1. It’s simple,Donald. You’re both very talented at voicing entertaining, but ultimately meaningless, nonsense.

  2. True enough. Also they’re both jackasses.

  3. “Somehow there are comparisons made so often, which is interesting. Comparisons with Kanye and myself — I don’t quite get it,”

    One can be kind of an asshole sometimes but is incredibly talented and fearless and real, and the other is just a yooooge asshole all the time.

  4. Avatar for JohnB JohnB says:

    “Somehow there are comparisons made so often, which is interesting. Comparisons with Kanye and myself — I don’t quite get it.”

    Is this man really so lacking in self-awareness?

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