Trump says Kanye was ‘great to me’ in Tucker Carlson interview when pressed on rapper’s attack on Jared Kushner and anti-semitic rants

Donald Trump on Monday night shared a glowing review of rapper Kanye West’s recent interview on Tucker Carlson Tonight, despite his negative comments about the former president’s son-in-law.

West, who changed his name to Ye, is embroiled in an every-deepening public scandal of his own making after being kicked off Instagram and Twitter for making anti-Semitic comments.

It was revealed last week that some of his more offensive statements toward Jews on Carlson’s Fox News show were left on the cutting room floor before being subsequently leaked.

But what did make it into the interview were Ye’s criticism of Jared Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka.

Salem News host Larry O’Connor asked Trump during his phone interview what he thought of the rapper’s ‘offensive’ comments against Kushner and ‘America Jews writ large.’

‘Is this the guy you knew?’ O’Connor questioned, invoking Trump’s well-publicized friendship with Ye when the former was still in the White House.

‘Well, I haven’t really seen the statements he’s made. I did watch the interview and he was really nice to me. Beyond anybody, he was- he was great to me,’ Trump said.

‘He was great, really, to MAGA, to the MAGA movement, which was very impressive. I was, you know, not surprised.’

The rapper – who is an outspoken fan of Trump’s and even met with him in the Oval Office – dismissed Kushner’s work in the Trump administration to normalize Israel’s relations with other Middle Eastern countries and claimed he was only doing it ‘to make money’

It’s a variation of a harmful, well-known anti-Semitic trope depicting Jews as harboring excessive greed.

Trump did not weigh in directly on Kushner but he did attempt to downplay the outrage at West’s remark.

‘Sometimes he’ll make a statement and a lot of people will think it’s worse than he means it to be,’ the former president said.

‘But I think that, you know, I was- I was certainly very- you know what I’m talking about. He was really high on a guy named Donald Trump.’

Trump himself came under fire Sunday for telling American Jews to ‘appreciate’ what he did for Israel during his administration ‘before it’s too late.’

The comment was widely seen by Trump’s critics as a veiled threat against Jewish Americans.