{"id":1759858,"date":"2022-12-02T11:43:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T16:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759858"},"modified":"2022-12-02T11:48:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T16:48:30","slug":"flashback-kanye-performs-at-dnc-fundraiser-obama-jokes-about-him-becoming-house-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-kanye-performs-at-dnc-fundraiser-obama-jokes-about-him-becoming-house-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Kanye Performs at DNC Fundraiser, Obama Jokes About Him Becoming House Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflashback-kanye-performs-at-dnc-fundraiser-obama-jokes-about-him-becoming-house-speaker%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759858&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022.12.02-02.36-thepoliticalinsider-638a0d60deb86.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Kanye West has been in the spotlight for very bad reasons of late, culminating with a bizarre interview in which he said he saw \u2018good things\u2019 in Adolf Hitler and posting a swastika on social media, prompting free speech champion Elon Musk to ban him from Twitter. <span>Obama<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have no interest in sharing any of his bizarre trainwreck rants and anti-semitic tropes here.<\/p>\n<p>But with leftists in an uproar over the fact that former President Donald Trump hosted a business dinner with West, we thought it relevant to note that Kanye was once a darling of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>As such, we offer this flashback of West performing at a DNC fundraiser, singing a few of his hits at Barack Obama\u2019s inaugural ball, and even seeing the former Democrat President joking about him becoming Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-block full\">\n[embedded content]\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/trump-slams-mcconnell-as-loser-for-our-nation-after-senator-criticizes-his-dinner-with-fuentes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump Slams McConnell as \u2018Loser For Our Nation\u2019 After Senator Criticizes His Dinner With Fuentes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Kanye West Performs at Obama\u2019s Inaugural Ball<\/h3>\n<p>Kanye West performed at a \u201cBe the Change\u201d Youth Inaugural Ball for Barack Obama in 2009, even changing some of his lyrics in support of the newly elected President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels so good to be standing here \u2026 My mom would be so proud right now, to see her baby boy performing the #1 song in the country for our new African-American president,\u201d West <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/tl5l7n\/kanye-west-felt-so-good-to-perform-for-president-obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beamed at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He slightly changed lyrics to the chorus of his hit, \u201cHeartless,\u201d to support the new Commander-in-Chief.<\/p>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn the night I hear them talk\/ The greatest story ever told,\u201d he sang. \u201cSomewhere far along this road, a new soul: Obama \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-block full\">\n[embedded content]\n<\/div>\n<h3>Performs at DNC Fundraiser<\/h3>\n<p>Kanye West, as recently as the year before Donald Trump won the presidential election, was performing at a DNC fundraiser to support the leftist cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKanye West gave San Francisco a very special performance that was originally believed to mark the debut of new material,\u201d Complex Magazine reported at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo better serve the urgency of that fact, President Barack Obama was in attendance alongside 1,300 Democratic National Committee supporters,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The line already outside The Warfield for DNC fundraiser with President Obama and Kanye West <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GmiXe0QzGg\">pic.twitter.com\/GmiXe0QzGg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Melanie Woodrow (@MelanieWoodrow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MelanieWoodrow\/status\/652841039808479232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Obama Jokes About Him Becoming House Speaker<\/h3>\n<p>Obama even joked about Kanye West becoming Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may have heard about this. Kanye is thinking about running for Speaker of the House,\u201d Obama joked prior to the DNC fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt couldn\u2019t get any stranger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama would joke that \u201cin case he\u2019s (West) serious about\u201d running for President in the future, he\u2019d have to deal with \u201csome strange characters who behave like they\u2019re on a reality TV show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wonder who he was referencing with that remark?<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-block full\">\n[embedded content]\n<\/div>\n<p>Obama wasn\u2019t always in a joking mood when it comes to Kanye West.<\/p>\n<p>He famously referred to the performer as a \u201cjackass\u201d in unscripted comments prior to an interview with CNBC\u2019s John Harwood.<\/p>\n<p>Obama was referencing the time Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift\u2019s best female video award acceptance <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tv\/taylor-swift-wins-best-female-video-upsetting-kanye-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speech in 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk suspended West\u2019s Twitter account after recently reinstating him, stating \u201che again violated our rule against incitement to violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I tried my best. Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1598543670990495744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump has said his controversial dinner with Kanye was to offer <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/pence-says-trump-should-apologize-for-dinner-with-nick-fuentes-kanye-conservatives-slam-controversy-as-performative-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">business advice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYe, formerly known as Kanye West, was asking me for advice concerning some of his difficulties,\u201d Trump wrote on his Truth Social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>He added West \u201cshould definitely not run for President,\u201d a fact made much more obvious in recent days.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Now is the time to support and share the sources you trust.<\/strong><br \/>The Political Insider ranks #3 on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.feedspot.com\/political_blogs\/\">Feedspot\u2019s<\/a> \u201c100 Best Political Blogs and Websites.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West has been in the spotlight for very bad reasons of late, culminating with a bizarre interview in which he said he saw \u2018good things\u2019 in Adolf Hitler and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1759861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}