Kanye West is back with a bang on Twitter

After a long social media hiatus, Kanye West returned to everyone’s Twitter feeds last week. With messages about life, love and his new Yeezy collection, fans were delighted with his return. All seemed right with the world now that we had tweets like this to scroll through:

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/986318237116915715

But last night, Kanye began his daily Twitter monologue on a less-than-popular topic; politics, namely President Trump. It’s been well-documented that West has been friendly with Trump in the past, meeting with him at Trump Tower after his presidential victory in 2016, much to fans’ anger. But the rapper came under even more fire when he began to tweet about his ‘love’ for Trump and how they both possess the same ‘dragon energy’:

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/989179757651574784

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/989227154993963009

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/989257175322144768

West also referred to being dissatisfied with previous US President Barack Obama’s progress while in office, saying that ‘nothing changed’ in Yeezy and Obama’s hometown of Chicago while he was President:

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/989272340432240641

There was a significant backlash on social media immediately after each of the tweets, with many calling Kanye ‘crazy’ and questioning his mental health. His wife Kim Kardashian was quick to defend her husband and slammed the media for immediately resorting to mental illness as a reason for his outbursts:

To the media trying to demonize my husband let me just say this… your commentary on Kanye being erratic & his tweets being disturbing is actually scary. So quick to label him as having mental health issues for just being himself when he has always been expressive is not fair

— Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) April 25, 2018

Now when he spoke out about Trump… Most people (including myself) have very different feelings & opinions about this. But this is HIS opinion. I believe in people being able to have their own opinions,even if really different from mine
He never said he agrees with his politics

— Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) April 25, 2018

Presumably, Kim had a chat with Kanye, because he soon tweeted to clarify that he, in fact, did not 100% agree with Trump politics:

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/989192498307219456

With social media in an uproar about the tweets, and many of West’s fans voicing disappointment over the star’s opinions, there was one person who was pretty pleased with it all:

Thank you Kanye, very cool! https://t.co/vRIC87M21X

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 25, 2018

Of course.