Kanye West has been having a week. He returned to Twitter, swiftly reminding everyone why he probably shouldn’t be on Twitter. On Tuesday, he tweeted about firing his manager, saying, “I no longer have a manager. I can’t be managed. I’m nobody’s ‘client’.” On Wednesday, he was reminded that he still has a manager of sorts, when his wife Kim Kardashian made him tweet a clarification about one of his pro-Trump tweets. Trump also responded to Kanye on Twitter, because we live in the dumbest timeline.
Amid the MAGA tweeting — which seems to have cost him a lot of followers (including friends and family) — Kanye also promoted his upcoming projects, which is one way to hype your work, we guess. He also inspired Jordan Peele to tweet about Get Out 2, so at least we’re getting good jokes out of this. Other people on Twitter have also been making jokes about Kanye’s tweets, starting with the obvious Hurricane Katrina references:
All of Twitter right now. pic.twitter.com/7hqS0KSCV4
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) April 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/reggiegotlag/status/989251869968039936
And people wondered how Kim Kardashian is handling everything:
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) April 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/Kyle_Feldscher/status/989193207912239104
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) April 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/989251500877733891
The memes kept coming:
https://twitter.com/ciccmaher/status/988537438028091392
drake right now to his manager who told him not to use twitter pic.twitter.com/wA4GEK1DsR
— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) April 26, 2018
this is getting out of hand pic.twitter.com/yUojwGOyiY
— eric curtin (@dubstep4dads) April 25, 2018
I don't always agree with Trump, but Kanye does make an important point here pic.twitter.com/ulTwaruKap
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) April 25, 2018
Kanye and Trump have something in common neither seems to have quite recovered from: being humiliated in public by Barack Obama.
— Darren Sands (@darrensands) April 25, 2018
Kanye is the only rapper who would cry if he lost a board game.
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) April 26, 2018
Trump has tweeted TWICE today about Kanye West and yet nary a word on the Hamburglar, who has yet to be brought to justice
— Dan Sheehan (@ItsDanSheehan) April 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/beyzanurapaydin/status/989234135553200128
"Black People, we have your rapper. If you want him returned, Send $100K in unmarked bills, potato salad WITH RAISINS and a chopper. No Cops. No funny business.” pic.twitter.com/ordr59CYDj
— Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi (@roywoodjr) April 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/robmanuel/status/989218947990990848
Kanye even tweeted about the creepy Dilbert guy, which led to a lot of people wondering what other questionable influences he might glom onto next.
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/988456454075109377
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/988460980454809601
This album cover finally makes sense pic.twitter.com/XbeqXFJMAs
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) April 23, 2018
alright who had “Kanye goes Gamergate” on apocalypse bingo
— Molly Lambert 🦆 (@mollylambert) April 23, 2018
sneak peak of the new kanye album pic.twitter.com/QnIDN3skRA
— Bob Vulfov (@bobvulfov) April 23, 2018
Wow I do not like the direction of the new Kanye pic.twitter.com/W8blULXi6h
— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) April 23, 2018
https://twitter.com/jimpjorps/status/988453133939564554
Kanye is going to discover new right wing internet personalities we haven’t even heard of, with names like Based Apple Store Man and Epic Biodiversity Grandma
— Lead Actor from Pixar’s Sodas (@ByYourLogic) April 24, 2018
I have to give kanye credit – he went from “maybe I’ll rejoin twitter” to full “the thought police are trying to silence me!” in like 36 hours. for most people that takes months, if not years
— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) April 24, 2018
kanyes next album is going to have a kid rock guest spot and pitchfork will still give it an 8.5 while calling it "characteristically uneven"
— Alex Nichols (@Lowenaffchen) April 25, 2018
His tweets garnered him some surprising new fans:
just like that Kanye went from evil Satan worshipping member of the illuminati to right wing hero pic.twitter.com/kZf7bz40RY
— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) April 24, 2018
Kanye's attempt to appeal to the Trump crowd resulted in them misspelling his name so many times it's actually trending pic.twitter.com/woYD3ulYII
— Big Supernaturals (@UweBollocks) April 25, 2018
But he seems to have lost more fans than he gained, including Mary:
This exchange just restored my faith in this hell platform. pic.twitter.com/9jgLZ9A4wV
— Omar Sakr (@omarsakrpoet) April 26, 2018
Kanye: my MAGA hat is signed!
Twitter: pic.twitter.com/B20PVzJtwZ
— FOLLOW @YITTY (@lizzo) April 25, 2018
Hitler was dope! A real free thinker! Please RT! My album drops in July!!!
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) April 25, 2018
Please, please, please let me never turn into a person who needs publicity so badly that I endorse racism, misogyny, homophobia, corruption and self-loathing.
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) April 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/hausmuva/status/989242565227679745
Wow, I can’t believe Kanye likes a rich guy with megalomania and an inferiority complex
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) April 25, 2018
me listening to the college dropout pic.twitter.com/JL0eMmTL2v
— . (@jaboukie) April 25, 2018
i used to be the one defending kanye AGAINST white supremacists and now white supremacists are defending kanye against ME pic.twitter.com/SDsOlWffji
— . (@jaboukie) April 25, 2018
Being a Kanye West fan and trying to defend him over the last ten years pic.twitter.com/lvfogn6QhC
— Lee (@bee_laker) April 23, 2018
I hope Kanye keeps tweeting so I can get yeezy 700s for like $40
— Adam Friedland (@AdamFriedland) April 25, 2018
This shit is outta control.. I’m DONE. https://t.co/fgMPPmmmik
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) April 25, 2018
Advice to @kanyewest if you’re gonna be On SocMed follow more than one person and at least read into their everyday lives even if you ain’t gonna be on a bus again
— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) April 26, 2018
The sunken place has WiFi. We get it.
— Gabby Sidibe (@GabbySidibe) April 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/kashanacauley/status/989253342399475713
Unexpected culture war outcomes, 2018 edition:
– liberals to get football
– conservatives to get Kanye— Luke Thompson (@ltthompso) April 25, 2018
This is definitely one situation where we don’t need to hear from Ja.
