Pete Davidsonhas a few thoughts to air aboutKanye West‘spro-Trump speechafter last week’s episode ofSaturday Night Live.
During Saturday’sWeekend Updatesegment,Ariana Grande‘sfiancé, 24, explained why he was thecast memberaddressing the rant that did not make it to air.
Referencing Davidson’sstrugglewithborderline personality disorderand West’shistorywithbipolar disorder, Davidson started, “First off, a lot of people thought[Weekend Update co-host Michael] Cheshould be the one to talk about Kanye, but we discussed it. Che’s black, but I’m crazy, and we both know which side of Kanye’s at the wheel right now.”
“Speaking strictly for myself, what Kanye said after we went off the air last week was one of the worst, most awkward things I’ve ever seen here, and I’ve seenChevy Chasespeak to an intern,” continued Davidson, whocalled theSaturday Night Livealumnus“a genuinely bad, racist person” onThe Howard Stern Showlast month.
Then Davidson addressed West’s “Make America Great Again” hat, which West claimed he was told not to wear. “He wore it all week,” Davidson refuted. “Nobody told him not to wear it. I wish I bullied you. I wish I would have suggested that it might upset some people, like your wife [Kim Kardashian West] or every black person ever.”
In his extensive rant, West, 41, said, “It’s so many times that I talk to a white person about this, and they say, ‘How could you support Trump? He’s racist.’ Well if I was concerned about racism, I would have moved out of America a long time ago. We don’t just make our decisions off of racism. I’ma break it down to you right now: If someone inspires me and I connect with them, I don’t have to believe in all they policies.”
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Davidson said on this weekend’sSNL, “Then Kanye said that Democrats broke up black families with welfare and that slavery is not real. You know how wrong about politics you have to be for me to notice? You know how annoying that is? Like Kanye is a genius but a musical genius.Joey Chestnutis a hot dog eating genius, but I don’t want to hear Joey Chestnut’s opinion about things that aren’t hot dog related.”
“I know you’re like, ‘No, this is the real me, I’m off the meds.’ Take ’em!” Davidson said. “There’s no shame in the medicine game. I’m on ’em. … If I ever got on a plane and the pilot said, ‘I just want you to know, this is the real me flying the plane,’ I’d jump out. Being mentally ill is not an excuse to act like a jackass.”
Davidson summed up his bit with a red hat of his own that read “Make Kanye 2006 Again.”
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“The show had been supportive of all of Kanye’s visions throughout the week, even giving him the opportunity for the third song during the goodnight [portion],’ and then he surprised everyone,” the source said.
A source recently told PEOPLE West is struggling as the eleventh anniversary of his mother Donda’s death approaches.
“If you remember, it was a year ago that this happened … almost exactly a year ago,” an insider close to the rapper told PEOPLE exclusively about his controversial actions in recent weeks. “It happens every fall as we get close to the anniversary of his mom’s death.”
Dondadied in 2007 of heart diseasewhile suffering “multiple post-operative factors” following a plastic surgery operation.
source: people.com
