Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago dinner with Kanye West and white nationalist Nick Fuentes was orchestrated to make his life “miserable,” according to Milo Yiannopoulos, who said he was the “architect” of the meeting.
Yiannopoulos, a former editor at far-right Breitbart, told NBC News that he wanted to remind the former president of the kind of people who really support him.
“I wanted to show Trump the kind of talent he’s losing by allowing his haters to dictate who he can and can’t date,” Yiannopoulos told NBC News, referring to the controversy over the rapper , which now ranges from Ye and Holocaust. denier.
“I also wanted to send a message to Trump that he has systematically neglected, ignored, abused repeatedly. the people who love him the most, the people who put him in charge, and that kind of behavior eventually comes back to hurt you.”
Yiannopoulos also said he knew word of the dinner would get out and Trump would escape the inevitable consequences. And that’s essentially what happened.
Trump responded to the protests by distancing himself from Fuentes, saying he only invited Ye to dinner, but that the rapper “arrived with a guest that I’ve never met and knew nothing about.”
Fuentes reacted by saying that the former president’s “true loyalists” were growing frustrated with him. “The chickens are coming home to roost,” she told NBC News.
The White Nationalist he told Trump at the dinner that the former president was “at his best when he was fired up and off the cuff.”
Since then, Trump has released three successive statements on Truth Social in which he acknowledged Fuentes had dined with him but insisted he had no idea about the Holocaust denier’s background.
The meeting became easy fodder for comedians such as Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, and Trump was also criticized by members of his own party, including his former vice president, Mike Pence, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Mitt Romney (R- Utah). ).
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