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.

David Axelrod: Biden's age 'major' issue for upcoming political viability

Daniel Chaitin

June 11, 12:38 PM June 11, 12:45 PM

Previous Obama adviser David Axelrod elevated a "big" purple flag with regards to President Joe Biden's ambitions to operate for reelection in 2024, pointing to the commander in chief's superior age.

His remarks appeared in a New York Moments report Saturday that examined "whispers" between Democrats who are progressively anxious about Biden's management forward of the 2022 midterm elections in which Republicans are widely predicted to get again handle of at the very least one chamber of Congress.

Biden, who is 79, is the oldest gentleman at any time to be president. In reality, Biden was more mature when he took the oath of place of work than was Ronald Reagan, the next-oldest sitting president at any time, when he retired at 77. Biden would be 82 for a second inauguration.

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“The presidency is a monstrously taxing job, and the stark truth is the president would be nearer to 90 than 80 at the conclude of a second expression, and that would be a major challenge,” Axelrod mentioned.

Biden said in December that he would operate for reelection if he is in great health.

"I am a good respecter of destiny. Fate has intervened in my everyday living a lot of, numerous instances. If I am in the health I'm in now, if I am in great wellness, then, in reality, I would run yet again," the president stated at the time.

Should Biden decrease to request a second expression, more youthful politicians may possibly line up to search for the Democratic Party's nomination. Amongst them could be former rivals in 2020 who grew to become customers of Biden's administration, together with Vice President Kamala Harris, who is 57, and 40-calendar year-outdated Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Among the the more mature set, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), two superior-profile, remaining-wing politicians who are 80 and 72, respectively, have also stoked presidential speculation as Biden's poll figures have taken a nose dive.

Previous President Donald Trump, who has flirted with the idea of a 2024 marketing campaign, is 75 with a birthday coming up future week.

Biden's critics usually increase queries about his actual physical electrical power and mental acuity, spurred by regular gaffes that aides often then swoop in to cleanse up. Axelrod, who was a top rated strategist for Barack Obama's two profitable presidential campaigns, argued that the age element had been a distraction from Biden's accomplishments.

“Biden doesn’t get the credit history he deserves for steering the place by the worst of the pandemic, passing historic laws, pulling the NATO alliance together in opposition to Russian aggression and restoring decency and decorum to the White Residence,” Axelrod claimed. “And aspect of the explanation he doesn’t is performative. He appears to be his age and is not as agile in front of a digital camera as he when was, and this has fed a narrative about competence that is not rooted in reality.”