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Kanye at the White House means the inmates are running the asylum
We’ve been knowing Kanye is crazy for awhile now — or at least perfecting his ratings grab. Nothing new there. But I guess watching Kanye’s latest eruption is like watching a man sit still and sing opera after he sets himself on fire; it’s kind of hard to look away.
Last week was a little different though. Not because Kanye sounded any more sane because he most certainly did not. It was because of where he chose to lose his mind on this particular occasion. Kanye lost his mind in the White House last week, in full view of the current occupant and the rest of the world. But putting the sheer entertainment value of this spectacle aside for a moment (because taken at face value that’s all it really was, even if a bit perverse), this really wasn’t about Kanye anymore than the Brett Kavanaugh spectacle was about Brett Kavanaugh.
This was about a President of the United States, the most powerful and (once upon a time) most respected nation on Earth, who felt he actually had enough spare time on his hands on a workday to waste that time listening to Kanye rant and rave. Or maybe I should say wasting the American people’s time, since the Clown Prince was still on the clock when all of this was going down. I mean, like, doesn’t he have shit to do?
