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:

be transparent as possible. Stop setting plays. Stop playing chess with life. Make decisions based on love not fear.

— ye (@kanyewest) April 17, 2018

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’:

You don't have to agree with trump but the mob can't make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone. I don't agree with everything anyone does. That's what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought.

— ye (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018

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

And any fan of me wants Ye to be Ye even when they don't agree because I represent the fact that they can be themselves even when people don't agree with them. Drops mic ?Yeezy shrug ????

— ye (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018

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:

Obama was in office for eight years and nothing in Chicago changed.

— ye (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018

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 West (@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 West (@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:

my wife just called me and she wanted me to make this clear to everyone. I don't agree with everything Trump does. I don't agree 100% with anyone but myself.

— ye (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018

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:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/989225812166696960

Of course.