Not only had the friendship between Kanye West and Donald Trump turned sour, but the former “The Apprentice” host had unkind words for Kim Kardashian. In a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, in November 2022, the “Flashing Lights” artist gave inside info about an apparent meeting he had with Trump. “He goes into the story about all that he went through to get [Alice] Johnson out of jail but he didn’t do it for Kim but he did for me,” West said (via the New York Post). “But then he goes on to say that Kim is a [expletive] and you can tell her I said that,” the rapper added.
The release of Alice Marie Johnson that West referenced was a headline-making moment for Kardashian. She met with the then-president to discuss Johnson’s potential release in May 2018. “Great meeting with Kim Kardashian today, talked about prison reform and sentencing,” Trump posted on Instagram along with a photo of him and Kardashian in the oval office. The following month, Trump commuted Johnson’s prison sentence, and she was released after over two decades behind bars. Johnson thanked Trump and called Kardashian an “angel,” per the Associated Press.
At the time, the “American Horror Story” actor spoke about the potential fallout for aligning herself with Trump. “I knew there would be tons of backlash … I had to make a decision that this was bigger than me,” Kardashian told CNN in 2018. Kardashian believed she made an impact on the former president.
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