By JNS Reporter

Political commentator Ben Shapiro on Sunday tacitly condemned U.S. President Donald Trump for hosting a dinner last week attended by Ye and Holocaust denier and white supremacist Nick Fuentes, sparking a Twitter war-of-words with the artist formerly known as Kanye West.
âA good way not to accidentally dine with a vile racist and anti-Semite you donât know is not to dine with a vile racist and anti-Semite you do know,â tweeted Shapiro. He was referring to Trumpâs claim that he had not known anything about Fuentes, whom Ye had invited to Mar-a-Lago.
Trumpâs 2024 presidential campaign released a statement, published by Breitbart, saying, âKanye West very much wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner meeting was intended to be Kanye and me only, but he arrived with a guest (Fuentes) whom I had never met and knew nothing about.â
The 24-year-old Fuentes has emerged as one of the leading figures of the far-right movement for his incendiary views on women, Jews and other minorities. He openly praises Hitler, believes that the Holocaust was a hoax and is opposed to womenâs suffrage. He was also present for the âUnite the Rightâ rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017, and spoke at a âStop the Stealâ rally in Washington, D.C., on the day of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
In response to Shapiroâs tweet, Ye, who has been embroiled in an antisemitism scandal, wrote: âShapiro starvingly accepts $100,000 from one of my opponents then tries to trash me.â He was referring to reports that a superpac associated with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is expected to challenge Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, had paid fundraising expenses and list rental costs to Shapiroâs Daily Wire news outlet.
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1597001528685907968
In response, Shapiro tweeted on Monday: âSadly, youâve trashed yourself. You didnât need my help. It wasnât me. It wasnât the Jews. It was just you.â
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1597007099317620736
Ye then struck a more conciliatory tone, writing: âAs much as Ben and I disagree I pray he joins me in saving our country. You know what they say love your enema âŠ. I mean …. uuuugh. Spellingâs not my core competency when Iâm sleepy. If Nick [Fuentes] keeps tweeting from my account the only platform Iâll have left is Truth Social.â
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1597048798307418112

According to Ye, Tuesdayâs dinner meeting with Trump went south after the former American leader insulted the rapperâs ex-wife Kim Kardashian.
Ye added that Trump started âscreamingâ at him, saying that the disgraced artistâs own bid to win the presidency in 2024 would fail. In October, Ye claimed that a âJewish underground media mafiaâ was targeting him, that he doesnât believe in the term âantisemitic,â and that todayâs music industry is akin to âmodern-day slavery.â
Earlier that month, Ye prompted outrage by saying he would go âdeath con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.â
Produced in association with Jewish News Syndicate.
(Additional reporting provided by Lennox Kalifungwa)
Edited by Alberto Arellano and Joseph Hammond
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