Hollywood Is Smearing Kanye as ‘Mentally Ill’ for His Trump Support

It’s a familiar charge for anyone who speaks out against Hollywood’s leftist machine: “He must be crazy.”

Kanye West is finding this out personally, as pop culture talking heads debate whether or not the superstar rap artist is mentally ill.

Talk-show host Wendy Williams sprung the charge on him during the Vulture Festival’s “Ask Wendy Williams” event on Saturday.

“I think that mental illness is something that is so real. A lot of people in jail right now, if they could’ve just gotten through some mental illness counseling, [they wouldn’t be incarcerated],” Williams said.

“As long as I’m here and you’re listening, I will tell you I feel very, very bad for Kanye West,” she continued. “His father is nowhere in the picture, his mom passed away trying to beautify herself to be a stage mom. I’m not going to talk about his wife, his family, or anything like that. But what I will tell you is that he’s not well. That is the very foundation of everything he says. He’s not well. I wish him well.”

The accusations mysteriously follow West’s various comments in support of President Donald Trump.

“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,” Kanye tweeted in late April.

The rapper then donned a MAGA hat. He’s also had chummy pictures taken with Donald Trump in the past.

“Thank you Kanye, very cool!” Trump tweeted in response.

The president also thanked the rap star for his subsequent boost in polling among African-Americans during his NRA convention speech in Dallas. “Kanye West must have some power because I doubled my African-American poll numbers. We went from 11 [percent] to 22 in one week,” Trump said. “Thank you, Kanye … Even the pollsters thought there must be some mistake.”

In the aftermath of the blowup, Kanye doubled down in an interview to TMZ in early May. “I just love Trump. That’s my boy,” he said.

After the media’s meltdown over Kanye’s comments, a number of celebrities attacked the pop star.

“I hope you’ll reconsider aligning yourself with Trump. You’re way too powerful and influential to endorse who he is and what he stands for,” musician John Legend texted Kanye, according to a photo West shared through social media.

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“We, as the black delegation, cannot afford to lose Kanye West,” left-wing rapper T.I. said when discussing West’s politics with the radio show “The Breakfast Club.” “He is our Michael Jackson.”

A few high-profile artists did come to West’s defense, such as Chance the Rapper and pop star Christina Aguilera. “Black people don’t have to be Democrats,” Chance bluntly tweeted in the aftermath of West’s original tweets in support of Trump.

“Kanye, you know, he says things. His mind works in mysterious ways. I’ll just say that. I’ve always been a fan of his music … If anything, he gives with his gut. You can feel it in his beats. It’s genuine. It feels like his truth, even if it’s not going to go over well,” Aguilera later told W magazine.

Aguilera’s comments have shown the divide over Kanye: Is West a talented, albeit eccentric artist, or is he a bizarre cult figure who has “finally” snapped?

West’s comments since his public Trump support show his opinions are thoughtful and considered, even if his reasoning is unorthodox. “I haven’t done enough research on conservatives to call myself or be called one. I’m just refusing to be enslaved by monolithic thought,” he said.

That isn’t stopping Hollywood celebs like Snoop Dogg from trying to police Kanye West’s opinions.

“I hate to be black and white … there’s no black women in his life. Let’s just keep that 100. That’s real, man. I got aunties that’ll pull up with them big ol’ church hats on, ‘na, what’s happening? What you on, nephew? You bullsing. We taught you way better than that,'” Snoop told “The Breakfast Club.”

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So Kanye needs to be “taught” how to think by the likes of Snoop Dogg, who has none-too-subtly depicted Trump’s mock assassination in a music video.

Accusations that Kanye is now suddenly “mentally ill” is just one more attempt by Hollywood to police the left-wing culture. Kanye West has been hospitalized in the past — reportedly for opioid addiction — which he says began after he had liposuction. There has also concern over whether sleep deprivation and exhaustion led to his hospitalization.

“I was addicted to opioids. I had plastic surgery because I was trying to look good for y’all. I got liposuction because I didn’t want y’all to call me fat like y’all called Rob [Kardashian] at [my] wedding and made him fly home before me and Kim got married,” he said in the May 1 TMZ interview.

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Kanye was a rap star known for his eccentric approach long before he ever mentioned his support for Donald Trump. While celebrities could attempt to rein him in with smears that he’s suddenly “mentally ill,” the timing of these attacks is exceedingly suspect.

The same playbook was used against Donald Trump in repeated hit pieces. The American people have seen it all before — it’s not going to work.

Kyle Becker is a content writer and producer with LifeZette. Follow him on Twitter.