The House Judiciary GOP’s official Twitter account has since deleted a tweet that simply stated, “Kanye. Elon. Trump.” The action came as Kanye West once again made anti-Semitic remarks, this time during an interview on the alt-right web show InfoWars.
The tweet, which was published on Oct. 6, appeared to embrace West, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump, who have all recently endorsed Republican politics despite having previously voted for or supported Democrats.
Due to various antisemitic comments, including a tweet in which he declared he wants to “go death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” West, 45, has been embroiled in controversy for more than a month.
Numerous businesses severed relations with the rapper and fashion designer as a result of that remark, including Adidas.
The House Judiciary GOP tweet saying "Kanye. Elon. Trump" has been deleted after Kanye West appeared on InfoWars and praised Hitler pic.twitter.com/syUbYNfbv9
— Ryan Deto (@RyanDeto) December 1, 2022
However, the House GOP committee didn’t abandon their tweet endorsing him; it was only taken down when West appeared on InfoWars on Thursday. He lauded Adolf Hitler during the interview and remarked, “We’ve got to stop always disparaging the Nazis; they achieved good things too.”
After saying that the rapper didn’t “deserve to be stigmatized,” far-right InfoWars presenter Alex Jones added, “You’re not Hitler, you’re not a Nazi.”
West replied while donning a full-face mask, “Well, I see wonderful things about Hitler likewise. “I have finished classifying things. Every person, especially Hitler, contributed something worthwhile to the world.”
West once oddly asserted that Hitler “invented” the microphone, despite the fact that Hitler was born two years after the first microphone patent was ever submitted.
Another time, as Jones announced the start of commercials, West was heard saying, “I like Hitler,” in response to Jones’ assertion that he had a “Hitler fetish.”
During another part of the conversation, West appeared to compare an insect net and a bottle of the chocolate beverage Yoo-hoo to Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister of Israel.
West displayed the net and uttered in a high-pitched voice that was a sort of impersonation of Netanyahu, “The history books must be under our control. Banks need to be under our authority. And now we must go, slaughter folks.”
Even conspiracy theorist Jones, who has made blatantly false, racist, and misogynistic remarks on his program, disagreed with West when the rapper remarked, “I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis.”
In the interview, West said, “[Hitler] had a really cool suit and stuff,” before disputing the assertion that Hitler killed six million Jews during the Holocaust. (Hitler killed at least five million prisoners of war and about six million European Jews.)
Jones retorted, “I believe Hitler did target and kill certain people.”
Along with his open expression of antisemitism, West has recently made news for allegedly engaging in bullying and inappropriate behavior among former Adidas employees.
West had the ear of former President Trump up until last week, despite the fact that his connections to the business sector have been severed.
Last Tuesday, West had dinner at Trump’s exclusive Mar-a-Lago club with the former president and live streamer Nick Fuentes, 24, who the US Justice Department has dubbed a “white supremacist.” Fuentes garnered media attention in 2017 after participating in the Charlottesville, Virginia, Unite the Right protest.
His YouTube channel was indefinitely suspended in February 2020 due to a violation of the organization’s hate speech policy. Since then, he has persisted in promoting antisemitic and Holocaust denialist ideas.
Following that meal, Trump claimed in a variety of remarks that he was unaware of Fuentes’ identity and that he “had no idea what his opinions were, and they weren’t conveyed at the table in our very fast dinner, or it wouldn’t have been accepted.”
While this has been happening, the GOP has generally been mute over Trump’s dinner with West and Fuentes, with only a few members criticizing the former president.
