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So Kanye had an interesting April, when some complimentary tweets about President Trump (and then many, many other tweets) earned him applause from right-wing circles and a lengthy text encouraging him to reconsider from John Legend. Trump tweeted his appreciation, writing, "Kanye West has performed a great service to the Black Community - Big things are happening and eyes are being opened for the first time in Decades - Legacy Stuff!"
Needless to say, speculation ran wild as to what Kanye was doing—was he having a breakdown, promoting his album, going hardcore conservative...or something in between?
"He's a free thinker, is that not allowed in America?" Kim tweeted in his defense. "Because some of his ideas differ from yours you have to throw in the mental health card? That's just not fair. He's actually out of the sunken place when he's being himself which is very expressive."
She herself, Kim was quick to add, had "very different feelings & opinions" about the president.
Then in May, Kanye called slavery "a choice" in a chat on TMZ Live, prompting a TMZ staffer to stand up and call him out right then and there. The rapper has since apologized.
Kanye admitted later that he did wonder if he had gone too far at one point, telling the New York Times in June, "There was a moment where I felt like after TMZ, maybe a week after that, I felt like the energy levels were low, and I called different family members and was asking, you know, 'Was Kim thinking about leaving me after TMZ?' So that was a real conversation."