Kanye West has fully embraced his identity as a Donald Trump supporter, it seems, and keeps cartoon the ire and attention of social media users with his "new ideas."
Kanye appeared on "TMZ" for an interview in which he made some incendiary comments nigh slavery. "When you hear most slavery for 400 years … For 400 years? That sounds like a choice," Kanye said. "You were there for 400 years and it's all of y'all. It's similar nosotros're mentally imprisoned."
Social media users immediately (and hilariously) latched onto the comments, and Kanye took to Twitter as well, to double-down on the comments.
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"The reason why I brought upwards the 400 years point is because we can't exist mentally imprisoned for another 400 years," Kanye wrote in a tweet. "We need free thought now. Even the statement was an example of gratis thought It (sic) was just an idea."
"In one case again I am being attacked for presenting new ideas," Kanye wrote in another tweet. Of course, many Twitter users pointed out that the thought of slavery being a choice wasn't really a new idea, merely i long held by white supremacists to, uh, justify slavery.
Even better, though, were the memes that Kanye'south quote spawned. Twitter users immediately began imagining who else might say something like, "One time again I am being attacked for presenting new ideas." Pretty much the first person everyone landed on? Thanos (Josh Brolin), the big purple supervillain from the freshly released "Avengers: Infinity State of war."
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Thanos' big thought, it should be noted, was killing half the population of the universe because then the other half wouldn't have to endure because of competition for limited resources.
Here are a few of the other hilarious uses of the phrase, used by some of movies' greatest villains, and to justify some pretty controversial choices (such as a choice of pizza toppings that divides the nation).
"Star Wars: The Final Jedi" villain Kylo Ren definitely falls into the "angry almost being attacked for new ideas" camp.
Thanos, of course, tin't go anywhere without being ambushed by a grouping of superfolk. So much for the tolerant universe.
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Psycho Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) of "Blue Velvet" was e'er merely trying to exist heard.
Sid of "Toy Story" just wanted to see what would happen if you melted toys to make some new and exciting horrifying hybrids.
Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) of "The Big Lebowski" watched his buddies die face up-down in the muck in 'Nam to defend Kanye's right to share his new ideas.
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Hey, maybe we should hear out Davros of "Dr. Who" on his programme to allow killer robotic Daleks conquer the universe.
Hawaiian pizza does not deserve this shabby treatment.
Look, Randall Flagg (Jamey Sheridan) might be extremely evil in "The Stand" simply they're only ideas, man.
Saruman (Christopher Lee) merely wanted his Uruk-Hai in "The Lord of the Rings" to taste man-flesh and bring him the halflings, but would anyone engage in a reasonable debate with him? Of course not.
David (Michael Fassbender) had a bang-up set of "new ideas" in "Alien: Covenant" — create the galaxy'southward greatest killing machine by using humans equally unwilling hosts for its parasitic gestation cycle.
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Dr. Heiter (Dieter Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) simply wanted to attempt making a new kind of human in "Human Centipede." Jeez.
Mugatu (Volition Ferrell) was famously attacked by Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) merely for wanting to increase the literacy rate among ants in "Zoolander."
The Chatterer cenobite of "Hellraiser" only wants to explain some of the ideas that have taken off in Hell.
Julius Caesar, after all, was just request questions.
19 Times Donald Trump and Co. Were Confused Nigh History, Including Canada Burning Down the White Business firm (Photos)
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Since becoming president, Donald Trump has had a lot more occasion to talk about American history. He likes to remind people that "you know, I'm, like, a smart person," but he doesn't e'er seem to get it right. Here are 19 instances of Trump and his surrogates giving weirdo history lessons.
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1. On Frederick Douglass
During a Blackness History Month breakfast in February, afterward mentioning several African American historical figures Trump said, "Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who'southward done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more than, I find." Nosotros're non maxim Trump didn't know who Douglass was, just despite his remarks, the famed abolitionist died in 1895.
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2. On Trump's Civil War Battle Golf Course
Trump's Virginia golf game course on the Potomac River includes a plaque stating the location was the site of a Civil War battle. "Many bully American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot," the inscription reads. "The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as 'The River of Blood.'" Historians say nothing meaning took place at the site.
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3. On Abraham Lincoln'south Political party
Trump brought up Abraham Lincoln at the National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner in March. "Bang-up president. Most people don't even know he was a Republican," Trump said. "Does anyone know? Lot of people don't know that."
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Lincoln, of course, is famously the first Republican president, although the party has changed significantly, both geographically and ideologically, from when information technology was started in 1854. Trump went on to suggest, "Let's take an advert, let's utilize one of those PACs," to educate people about Lincoln's link to the party. He apparently was unaware the GOP very often refers to itself as "the Party of Lincoln."
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four. On His Electoral Higher Victory
Since winning the 2022 presidential election, Trump and his team have repeatedly called the win "the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan." It wasn't. In fact, only two presidents have received fewer than Trump'south 304 electoral votes since 1972 — Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush-league. And Trump's 304 is less than both of Barack Obama's wins, at 365 in 2008 and 332 in 2012.
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five. On His Inauguration Crowd
Trump and his surrogates have maintained he had the biggest inauguration crowd in history, citing both the people on the ground at the National Mall in Washington D.C., and watching on TV and online. "When I looked at the numbers that have come in from all of the various sources, nosotros had the biggest audience in the history of inaugural speeches," Trump told ABC News. Going by the oversupply and Idiot box numbers, though, Trump'due south inauguration crowd was definitely not the biggest ever.
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Nielsen ratings for the inauguration put Telly viewership at about 31 million, or 19 percent fewer than the number who tuned in for Obama'southward inauguration in 2009, The Contained reports. And a PBS timelapse video shows the National Mall was never full during the entire event, while shots of Obama's inaugurations show the mall packed. Trump's inauguration might brand upward the divergence with online streaming viewers, but those numbers aren't known to the public or the media.
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6. On Andrew Jackson and the Civil War
In a Sirius XM interview with a reporter from the Washington Examiner, Trump said President Andrew Jackson would have stopped the Civil War. "I hateful, had Andrew Jackson been a trivial later you wouldn't have had the Civil War," Trump said. "He was a very tough person but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw with regard to the Civil State of war, he said 'In that location's no reason for this.'" Jackson, of class, died in 1845 — 16 years before the Civil State of war began.
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Trump took to Twitter to clarify his comments on Jackson. "President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have allow information technology happen!" In fact, Jackson, a slave owner, probably would have fallen on the Confederacy's pro-slavery side.
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7. On the Ceremonious War, Why
"People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if yous think virtually it, why?" Trump continued during the same interview. "People don't ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one non have been worked out?" Of grade, enough of people have asked "the Civil War, why?" The answer: slavery.
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8. On Medieval Times (Non the Restaurant)
In Feb 2016, Trump explained his view of torture and terrorism in an interview on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." "We are living in a time that's as evil as whatsoever time that there has ever been," Trump said. "You know, when I was a immature man, I studied Medieval times. That's what they did, they chopped off heads." Trump went on to say he would authorize measures "beyond waterboarding" when asked if the US would chop off heads under Trump.
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ix. On Sweden and What Happened There
Trump brought upwardly immigration in Europe during a rally in Feb 2017. He appeared to mention some immigration-related event "last nighttime" in Sweden that hadn't actually happened. "We've got to keep our country rubber," he said. "You wait at what's happening in Germany. You wait at what'southward happening terminal night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. They took in big numbers. They're having problems like they never thought possible."
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Trump later clarified the statement, yet again on Twitter. He said he wasn't referring to a news event that happened "last night" in Sweden, merely rather, a Fox News story. "My statement as to what's happening in Sweden was in reference to a story that was broadcast on @FoxNews apropos immigrants & Sweden," he wrote.
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10. On being treated the most unfairly
Delivering a speech communication to the graduating class at the U.Southward. Coast Guard Academy, Trump said, "No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly." That apparently includes politicians who have actually been assassinated, which seems similar it should count for beingness treated "unfairly." Perchance he means he's been "unfairly" given more than passes on bad behavior, like admitting sexual assail, than whatever other politician.
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12. On the Panama Canal
In a coming together with Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela, Trump seemed to kind of, sort of accept credit for the Panama Canal. "The Panama Canal is doing quite well. I call back we did a expert job building it, right — a very good task," Trump said, to which Varela answered, "Yeah, near 100 years agone." While what Trump meant by "nosotros" was probably "the United States," as Varela's annotate suggests, there's still an air of Trump glomming on to past accomplishments that had nil to practise with him.
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thirteen. On how much legislation he's signed
Trump likes to say things are historic without really e'er checking (or maybe caring) if it's true. He's said repeatedly that he's signed more legislation than any other president, and specifically called out Harry Truman. In fact, he ranks concluding in legislation signed equally of December 2017.
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14. On his "historic" defence spending increase
Trump also said at a July 2022 rally the increase to defence spending he advocated was historically high. Information technology isn't. Ronald Reagan and George West. Bush both increased defense spending by more, for 2 quick examples.
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15. On how his approval rating wasnot historically low
Ane affair about Trump's assistants that he claimed wasn't historic was his approving rating after six months in function. An ABC News/Washington Post poll put Trump's approving at 36 percent, which he tweeted "wasn't bad." As it turns out, it was the worst of any president in the last 70 years.
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16. On the Pulse nightclub shooting
As part of his button against gun control in the wake of the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High Schoolhouse in Parkland, Florida, Trump has advocated for arming teachers and others to terminate mass shootings. As Politifact reports, he also said that another shooting, the one in June 2022 at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people, could take been prevented if someone else there had been carrying a gun.
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The trouble is, someone was: in that location was an armed law officer working at Pulse the nighttime of the shooting, who even exchanged gunfire with the shooter, Omar Mateen. Trump has actually claimed before that if there had been more people armed at Pulse, the shooting could accept been stopped, in 2016. At the fourth dimension, Trump claimed later on Twitter that what he'd meant was that he wished there had been even more than people with guns to stop the Pulse shooting.
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17. On the War of 1812
Trump has been pushing to enact new tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, which are affecting not but Prc and other countries Trump sees as competitors to the U.Southward., only likewise allies such every bit Canada. In a telephone conversation with Canadian Prime number Minister Justin Trudeau that got somewhat heated over the tariffs, CNN reports, Trump brought up the War of 1812, claiming that Canadians burned down the White House during that disharmonize.
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Trump wasn't wrong that the White House was burned downwardly in the War of 1812 -- that did happen. Blaming Canada doesn't make a ton of sense, though. It was British troops that burned downwardly the White Business firm, since the U.Due south. was at war with England for the ii-year disharmonize. Canada was a colony at the time, and then was pulled into the state of war. A lot of it was also fought in Canada. But blaming Canada for the White Firm doesn't actually track.
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eighteen. Kellyanne Conway On the Bowling Green Massacre
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway invented a terrorist attack that never happened when she mentioned the "Bowling Green Massacre" in a February interview with MSNBC'due south Chris Matthews. Conway was attempting to justify Trump's ban on travelers from 7 predominantly Muslim countries, and claimed the media hadn't covered the assail. Equally the Washington Postal service reports, Conway likewise mentioned the massacre, which never took place, in two other interviews.
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xix. Sean Spicer On the Holocaust
White House Printing Secretary Sean Spicer got into trouble when he compared Syria's Bashar al-Assad and Adolf Hitler when discussing Trump'south decision to bomb a Syrian airfield in response to a gas attack confronting civilians. "...Someone equally despicable every bit Hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons," Spicer said during a daily printing conference. Of form, the apply of gas to murder millions of German Jews and other minority groups from within Germany and Europe was central to the Holocaust.
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Spicer went on to clarify that he did, in fact, know about the Holocaust. "I remember when yous come to sarin gas, there was no -- he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing," Spicer said. "I hateful, in that location was clearly, I empathise your point, give thanks you. Give thanks you, I appreciate that. There was non in the, he brought them into the Holocaust middle, I understand that." The historically accurate term for "Holocaust center" is "concentration camp," and at to the lowest degree 200,000 people killed in them were Jewish German citizens.
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From the Bowling Green Massacre to the the War of 1812, yous might call it "alternative history"
Since becoming president, Donald Trump has had a lot more occasion to talk about American history. He likes to remind people that "yous know, I'1000, like, a smart person," simply he doesn't always seem to get it right. Here are 19 instances of Trump and his surrogates giving weirdo history lessons.
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