Kanye West's 2018 White House Visit

Overview

Kanye West's 2018 White House Visit refers to a meeting between Kanye West and United States President Donald Trump at the White House house held in mid-October 2018.

Background

On October 11th, 2018, West visited the White House and was surrounded by reporters while seated in the Oval Office. During the meeting, West proclaimed that his "Make America Great Again" hat made him feel like "Superman" and gave him "male energy," while discussing theories about alternate universes (shown below).

Developments

Online Reactions

That day, various celebrities tweeted responses to the White House visit, including Questlove, 50 Cent, Don Cheadle and P. Diddy .^[2] Meanwhile, Twitter user @bennyjohnson^[3] tweeted an Epic Handshake edit of West and Trump (shown below).

Also on October 11th, Twitter user @SteveKopac posted a clip of West unlocking his phone on camera, noting that his password is just the number "0" repeated several times (shown below). Within 24 hours, the tweet gained over 4,500 likes and 1,900 replies.

That evening, the Fox News YouTube channel uploaded a clip of Tucker Carlson discussing the meeting titled "The intolerant left attacks Kanye West's White House visit" (shown below).

Meanwhile, Redditor spennser submitted a post calling for viewers to photoshop a picture of Kanye showing Trump his phone to /r/photoshopbattles.^[4] Within 24 hours, the post gained over 25,700 points (86% upvoted) and 890 comments, many of which contained edited variations of the image (shown below).

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