Sometimes these posts don’t really need an intro. Do we really need to tell you that Kanye West met with Donald Trump in the White House today? I don’t think you can be alive and not already know that, no matter how disconnected you are from the internet and the media. The attention today’s sad display has received must be what the moon landing felt like—inescapable, omnipresent, overwhelming, and confusing. Except replace the pride and awe of putting a man on the moon with the utterly empty aching void that this thing leaves in the pit of all of our stomachs. Kanye clearly isn’t well. Maybe he’s legitimately a Trump fan, maybe he’s just doing this for attention, but he’s said himself that he’s stopped taking the medications he was prescribed for his bipolar disorder and other mental health issues. We respect everybody on Twitter who used this story to bring awareness about the need for better mental health care in America, or who made a point of not making a joke about an obviously unwell man. I’m not, like, proud to be running this thing right now. But this is such a fundamentally absurd thing that happened today, even in this inexplicable world where the absurd has become mundane and predictable, that you have to expect people to use humor to try and understand it. That’s one of the most useful things about comedy—helping to make the uncomfortable comfortable. So that’s what this is: a collection of the best jokes about Kanye’s meeting with Trump today, but with the understanding that it’s not really cool to make fun of somebody with diagnosed mental health problems.
Kanye is the YouTube recommended videos bar in human form.
I am no Kardashian stan but each of those sisters has more Big Dick Energy in their long-ass manicured pinky nails than Kanye has in his entire body.https://t.co/zGxKulvAQU
KANYE: Mr president I love you so much. more than my own wife and child. can I smooch your hand. can I come live in the White House and you raise me like a son? I would gladly chop my feet off and give u them if you decided u wanted more feet TRUMP: look at this guy. he loves me
sitting quietly without having a full breakdown while the cameras were only focused on Kanye talking is the hardest Trump has worked in his entire presidency
