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Kanye West says he's 'not a Nazi' but jealous of Steve Bannon's 'fun' Nazi salute

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News on

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NEW YORK — Less than two days after reaching the conclusion that he’s “not a Nazi,” Kanye West expressed his jealousy over Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon doing a “fun” Nazi salute.

The 47-year-old “Heartless” rapper, whose legal name is now Ye, once again shared his bigoted stream of consciousness in a tweet around 3:30 a.m. Friday.

“Whits [sic] guys have all the fun,” Ye captioned a clip of Bannon’s disturbing appearance at the start of the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday. There, the former Breitbart executive made a hand gesture many have likened to the salute given by and to Hitler in Nazi-era Germany.

Ye’s problematic push-and-pull followed Wednesday afternoon’s declaration that, “After further reflection I’ve come to the realization that I’m not a Nazi.”

Earlier this month he proclaimed the opposite, going so far as to praise Adolf Hitler as “soooooo fresh” and dubbing himself “Yaydolf Yitler.”

West kicked off his latest string of controversies on Feb. 2 when he and wife Bianca Censori appeared on the Grammys red carpet. The 30-year-old Yeezy architectural designer dropped a long fur coat to reveal a fully sheer dress that effectively left her nude. A rep for the couple has denied new reports they’re headed for divorce.

 

Over the following week, Ye unleashed his latest tirade of antisemitic, misogynistic, homophobic and racist sentiments on X. During the rant, Ye declared “dominion” over Censori and dubbed slavery “a choice.”

In a bizarre lo-fi Super Bowl commercial that he reportedly funded for $8 million, Ye ordered viewers to visit his site, where he was selling white T-shirts emblazoned with black swastikas. The Shopify site was shut down but reportedly sold 100,000 shirts first.

“When I use a swastika I render myself unusable to users,” Ye tweeted early Friday, minutes before the Bannon tweet.

Minutes later, he declared he doesn’t “pay people to have opinions.”


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