Author: Mike Lupica / Source: NY Daily News
Kanye West, who once again looks like the kind of phony that aspirational young phonies everywhere want to grow up to be, says that this week’s embrace of President Trump was an example of what an independent thinker he is.
Well, yeah, but only if the independent thinking is about selling a new song with all that dragon energy he says he has, and shares with our current President.But this isn’t about his own politics, if he actually has any. This isn’t about Trump’s politics. This is simply one self-promoter — Kanye — emulating a guy he saw promote himself all the way to the White House.
But maybe Kanye does provide a real public service in the process. Just when you think that our current political discourse can’t get any dumber, here he comes over the hill, talking about dragon energy, talking about how he and the President are equal, though you have to say not all the precincts have reported on that particular race, one still too close to call.
The whole thing makes you remember Charlie Sheen’s lofty discourse about “tiger blood” when he was on tour trying to sell himself and salvage his sitcom career. That was one kind of cartoon. Kanye is another this week on Twitter. The idea that what he is saying and doing is actually about something, and ought to inspire serious debate about…
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