There have been many memorable presidential summits, from JFK’s Cold War confab with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to Richard Nixon’s visit to China to meet with Mao Zedong. For sheer hilarity, however, none of those came close to topping Donald Trump’s 2018 Oval Office visit with Kanye West.
While cameras filmed the entire spectacle, West (accompanied by NFL legend-turned-movie star Jim Brown) was ostensibly there to discuss prison reform and to plead for the freedom of imprisoned ex-gang leader Larry Hoover. West made his case, reported CNN, as only West could. “So there’s a theory that — there’s infinite amounts of universe and there’s alternate universe so it’s very important for me to get Hoover out, because in an alternate universe, I am him and I have to go and get him free,” West told Trump in what sounded more like a pitch for the next “Doctor Strange” sequel than a clemency plea.
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And yes, of course, it got even nuttier, particularly when West spoke out about repealing the 13th amendment — abolishing slavery — which he explained thusly: “If you’re building a floor, the constitution is the base of our industry, right, of our country, of our company. Would you build a trap door that if you mess up and you accidentally something happens, you fall and you end up next to the Unabomber?” Trump responded to West’s crescendo of crazy by musing, “That was quite something. That was quite something.”
