John Legend suggests friendship with Kanye West could not endure Donald Trump

Julia Johnson

August 06, 05:00 AM August 06, 05:00 AM

Musician John Legend told the director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, David Axelrod, that his friendship with fellow musician Kanye West could not overcome his assistance for previous President Donald Trump.

"We usually are not close friends as much as we made use of to be," the EGOT winner claimed of West on CNN's The Axe Files podcast, "mainly because we publicly disagreed on his jogging for place of work, his supporting Trump"

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"It became much too considerably for us to maintain our friendship," he included.

“He was upset that I did not assistance his run for presidency of the United States of The united states — for understandable motives,” Legend claimed.

"You were not by yourself in that," Axelrod chimed in.

"He was not joyful about that," spelled out the singer. As a end result, he stated they "have not been near given that then."

Of West, Legend claimed the rapper is "pretty authentic," including that "you can find not a good deal about him that people today don't get," he additional.

"What you see with him is very a great deal what you get," the singer continued.

Axelrod then questioned the star about his previous activism in the course of the Iraq War, to which he asserted, "We all understood ... it was bulls***."

"You could notify they were hoping to obtain ... intelligent assistance for a little something that evidently they just made a decision they preferred to do," he stated of the Bush administration.

"Evidently, Saddam experienced very little to do with 9/11, and the scenario for him acquiring WMDs was ... weak at greatest," Legend mentioned.

"They have been selling us a invoice of merchandise," he discussed, adding that he "did not consider it."

"I was a person of those people people today," he stated, who did not believe that it from the commencing.

"I grew up pretty influenced by civil rights leaders," he additional told Axelrod.

Legend also explained when he cried immediately after previous President Barack Obama, the first black U.S. president, was elected. "The second that broke me was observing the more mature black Us residents," he claimed.

He also specific making use of his movie star power, influence, and sources to build modify, revealing that he is at this time targeted on justice reform and regional governments. Notably, Legend a short while ago endorsed various Democratic district attorneys in elections throughout the country.