Kanye West and his spouse Bianca Censori were cheered by demonstrators at a gathering in support of former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign on Saturday in Beverly Hills, California.
West, 47, and Censori, 29, were pictured riding through the upscale area in a Tesla Cybertruck, where they were flanked by supporters of the 45th president, who is the Republican presidential candidate against presumptive Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris in this fall’s U.S. election.
Trump’s supporters, holding American flags and signs in favor of Trump, began chanting Kanye’s name when they recognized he was behind the wheel, TMZ reported Sunday.
A number of the demonstrators sought to film the run-in with West, who has had a number of headline-making exchanges involving Trump over the past eight years.
Censori did not appear overly animated at the onswell of attention, as she looked in the direction of her partner prior to the pair taking off.
Kanye West, 47, and his spouse Bianca Censori, 29, were cheered by demonstrators at a gathering in support of former President Donald Trump ‘s presidential campaign on Saturday in Beverly Hills, California
A clip of the brief exchange was posted to TikTok by a user under the handle @ali.aam.06.
The social media user captioned the clip: ‘WE SAW KANYE AT THE TRUMP RALLY IN BEVERLY HILLS WHAT THE F****.’
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The TikTok user added the hashtags #ye, #kanyewest and #makeamericagreatagain.
West has not publicly spoken about the current election cycle, but has past been an outspoken supporter of Trump’s.
In a November 2016 concert at the SAP Center in San Jose, California following Trump’s win over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton West told concertgoers that he hadn’t voted, but would have cast his ballot for Trump if he did.
The following month, West met with Trump at Trump Tower in New York City.
During Trump’s presidency, he hosted West in the Oval Office in an October 11, 2018 meeting alongside late NFL legend Jim Brown, who died in May of 2023.
Trump told West during the televised meeting, ‘Kanye it is great to be with you and these are two friends of mine and Kanye has been a friend of mine for a long time.’
West and Censori were pictured grabbing a snack in West Hollywood, California in March
A clip of the brief exchange was posted to TikTok by a user under the handle @ali.aam.06
Censori did not appear overly animated at the onswell of attention, as she looked in the direction of her partner prior to the pair taking off
The pair was pictured riding through the upscale area in a Tesla Cybertruck
West received a hero’s welcome as he pulled over and acknowledged the political gathering
West met with Trump at Trump Tower in New York City on December 13, 2016
West, who donned one of Trump’s red Make America Great Again caps in the meeting, said, ‘It was something about when I put this hat on, it made me feel like Superman – you made a Superman – that’s my favorite superhero and made a Superman cape for me also as a guy that looks up to you.’
In the meeting, according to the AP, West expressed to Trump his views on issues centered around law enforcement and race relations.
‘You talk about police murders, which we definitely have to discuss,’ West said. ‘And we have to bring nobility to that to the police officers and make that police officers are just like us.
He continued: ‘This is whole hate building and that’s a major thing about racial tension. We also as Black people, we have to take responsibility for what we’re doing. We kill each other more than police officers and that’s not to say that the police officer is not at issue, because they are place, a position of power.’
Trump said he was ‘open to everything’ in terms of reforms to the issue, including the practice of stop-and-frisk.
‘So they have to do something and I am totally open, if we can do it a different way, Kanye, I I’m totally open but they have to do,’ Trump said. ‘We all agree they have to do something.’
The relationship between Trump and West appeared to falter after West brought white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who has past denied the Holocaust, to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate for a dinner in November of 2022.
During Trump’s presidency, he hosted West in the Oval Office in an October 11, 2018 meeting
West, who donned one of Trump’s red Make America Great Again caps in the meeting, said, ‘It was something about when I put this hat on, it made me feel like Superman – you made a Superman’
West and then-President Trump shared a warm exchange in the Oval Office in the meeting
The relationship between Trump and West appeared to falter after West brought white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who has past denied the Holocaust, to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate for a dinner in November of 2022. Fuentes pictured in 2017
Trump was pictured during a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on Saturday
Trump took to Truth Social calling West ‘seriously troubled’ after West had made headlines for a series of antisemitic remarks spread over multiple outlets in the weeks preceding the Mar-a-Lago meeting.
‘So I help a seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black, Ye, who has been decimated in his business and virtually everything else, and who has always been good to me, by allowing his request for a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, alone, so that I can give him very much needed “advice,”‘ Trump said.
Trump continued, ‘He shows up with 3 people, two of which I didn’t know, the other a political person who I haven’t seen in years. I told him don’t run for office, a total waste of time, can’t win. Fake News went CRAZY!’