Music industry superstar Kanye West made huge waves when he worse a “White Lives Matter” shirt recently — and Fox News’ Tucker Carlson wanted to find out why.
West, one of the most popular performers in the world, has been a fiery supporter of former President Donald Trump. He is an outspoken conservative and an evangelical Christian.
Carlson sat down with him Thursday.
“So you just came from Paris fashion week. You just landed. You have a lanyard still on from it and there is a photograph on it. What is that?” Carlson asked.
“It’s a photograph of a baby’s ultrasound”
“And you designed that?” Carlson asked. “Why? What does it mean?”
“It just represents life and pro-life,” West replied.
“So you wear it on a badge,” Carlson said. “What kind of response do you get? And Amen, I agree.”
“I don’t care about what people’s response is,” West replied. “I care about the fact that there is more Black babies being aborted than born in New York City at this point. That 50% of Black death in America is abortion. So I really don’t care about people’s responses. I perform for an audience of one and that’s God.”
West talked about how he was warned against coming out as a supporter of Trump.
“My so-called friends/ handlers around me told me said that if I like Trump my career would be over,” West told Carlson. “That my life would be over. They said stuff like people get killed for wearing a hat like that. They threatened my life.”
“They basically said that I would be killed for wearing the hat,” West continued. “I had someone call me last night and said anybody wearing a White Lives Matter shirt is going to be green-lit. That means that they are going to beat them up if they wear it. I’m like okay, green-light me then.”
He also blasted the mainstream media and their “godless agenda.”
“We are in a battle with the media, the majority of the media has a godless agenda,” West told Carlson. “And their jokes are not working. They say oh ‘Ye is crazy.’ But all these things, they don’t work. Because the media has also watched travesty happen, that’s even specifically to me and just watch it and act like it wasn’t happening. And they stayed quiet about it.”
Take a look at the full interview below —
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