Elon Musk Welcomes Kanye West Again to Twitter as Movie star Teases 2024 Run

Coming off a sequence of controversial public appearances, rapper and businessman Kanye West returned to Twitter on Friday night time and was quickly welcomed again by one other main identify.

On Monday, West appeared at his Yeezy model style present in Paris sporting a shirt sporting the phrase, “White Lives Matter,” a typical inversion employed by white supremacists in addition to common opponents of the Black Lives Matter social motion. Then, the rapper made a number of controversial feedback in a Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson this week—together with anti-abortion remarks and criticism of singer Lizzo. The headline-grabbing strikes drew heavy controversy on-line, in addition to assist from various prominent conservatives.

On Friday night time, West reemerged on Twitter with a tweet teasing one other presidential run sooner or later, writing merely “2024” with a photograph of a black hat with the yr written on it. Previous to this, the rapper had not tweeted because the day after Election Day 2020, wherein he additionally teased operating for President in 2024.

The hat additionally notably resembles one which West has been photographed sporting at Paris Vogue Week that includes the yr “2023,” almost definitely in reference to the occasion’s concentrate on merchandise arriving subsequent yr.

As of Saturday afternoon, West’s solely different tweet was one attacking Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

“Take a look at this Mark,” West tweeted alongside an previous photograph of himself with the Facebook founder. “The way you gone kick me off Instagram. You was my [n-word].” An Instagram spokesperson confirmed to NBC Information on Saturday that it had restricted West’s account and deleted content material after he was accused of creating an anti-Semitic publish on Friday.

In response to this tweet, Tesla and Area X CEO Elon Musk, one other public determine who has generated divisive reactions by making conservative-leaning feedback prior to now yr, welcomed his “good friend” West again to Twitter.

West beforehand ran for president in 2020 as a third-party candidate, with a lot of conservative, faith-based marketing campaign guarantees. These included the establishment of prayer in colleges, opposition to abortion and assist for Christian organizations. As his operating mate, he chosen Michelle Tidball, a Christian preacher from Wyoming, the place his marketing campaign was headquartered.

West’s marketing campaign struggled to achieve a significant stage of prominence, lacking deadlines to look on ballots in 29 states and the District of Columbia. Solely managing to get onto 12 state ballots, West obtained round 70,000 votes in these states.

Given West’s previous feedback in assist of former President Donald Trump, many accused him of operating the marketing campaign as a technique to siphon votes away from then Democratic candidate, President Joe Biden. A report from Reuters late final yr additionally alleged {that a} publicist working for West pressured a Georgia election employee to admit to election tampering within the lead-up to January 6.

Newsweek reached out to West’s representatives for remark.