Kanye West on Thursday night turned on his former friend Jared Kushner – accusing Donald Trump‘s son-in-law of being entitled, a mercenary and amoral.
Two weeks after proclaiming his admiration for Kushner in an interview with ABC News, West told Fox News‘ Tucker Carlson that he was not a fan of the 41-year-old former senior adviser to Trump, and his entrepreneur brother Josh, 37.
West – friends with the Kushners since at least 2010 – said he had dined with the brothers and Jared’s wife Ivanka Trump recently and was unimpressed.
‘After talking to them and really sitting with Jared and sitting with Josh and finding out other pieces of information, I was like, wow, these guys might have really been holding Trump back,’ said West.
‘And being very much a handler.’
Kanye West, who returned to Los Angeles after Paris Fashion Week, spoke to Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday and said he was no longer an admirer of Jared Kushner
West and Kushner are seen in January this year leaving Miami restaurant Carbone after dinner together. The pair have been friends since 2010, Kushner said
Jared Kushner (left), now 41, and his younger brother Josh, 37, pictured in June 2011
West in August 2020 spent time with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in Telluride, and was reported by Forbes at the time to be speaking to the elder Kushner sibling ‘almost daily’.
Kushner confirmed that he and West would trade articles and books, and discuss ideas.
West told Forbes: ‘One time I talked to Jared Kushner, who was saying, ‘We don’t have black leaders—we just have hustlers.’ Why? Because they killed all the black leaders.’
West later asked Forbes to remove the quote, saying: ‘I love Jared. I was just . . . that’s my boy, you know? That’s really my boy. So I prefer to not drop his name.’
On Thursday, however, West was biting in his criticism, and said Kushner and his brother both looked down on him and the former president.
‘They love to look at me or look at Trump like we are so crazy and they are the businessmen,’ West told Carlson.
‘When I think about all of these things that Jared doesn’t get enough credit for with his work – his work in Israel, what is this, you know what he made peace treaties, you know the facts on this right here?’
Carlson attempted to summarize the Abraham Accords, telling the West: ‘Israel and some of the other Arab nations.’
West said, of the peace deal: ‘I think it was to make money.
‘I think that’s what they are about is making money, I don’t think they have the ability to make anything on their own.
‘I think they were born into money.’
The interview – which aired at 8pm on Fox News – came just two weeks after West told ABC News that he and Kushner were firm friends, and not just using each other for political benefit
Josh Kushner is pictured with his supermodel wife Karlie Kloss
West said he did not think Jared Kushner, one of Trump’s closest advisors in the White House, served him well.
‘It makes me feel like they weren’t serving my boy Trump the way we could have,’ said West.
‘Because Trump wanted nothing but the best for this country.’
He said Kushner was not being honest with Trump.
‘Moses stuttered. God isn’t always going to bring the most perfect personality.
‘A lot of times the most fake people, their job is talking and making people feel comfortable.
‘And the realist people are going to make you feel uncomfortable at first.’
West was also angered to learn that Josh Kushner, a venture capitalist, owned 10 percent of ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s shapewear brand, Skims – double what West owned.
‘These VCs come in and get a piece of it after the fact, and they run around and say they have ownership,’ said West.
West said that he was instrumental in founding the brand with his then-wife, and accused the Kushner brothers of damaging the brand.
‘It reaches another level when her business partners are selling pieces of the company they don’t have to, because the company is already a…
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