Kim Kardashian Faces Backlash After Claiming She Has 'Nothing Bad to Say' About Donald Trump
Kim Kardashian West turned heads when it was announced she would be meeting with Donald Trump in May to advocate for the release of Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother who had been serving life in prison for a non-violent drug charge. Her efforts worked—Trump commuted Johnson’s sentence, but that hasn’t stopped people from calling out his other policies and the West family’s alignment with the administration.
The backlash continued to pile up on Monday, after Kardashian went on Jimmy Kimmel Live, telling the host she had “nothing bad to say about the president.”
On the show, Kardashian explained she wanted to discuss Johnson’s case with Trump because she “knew there was only one person in power that could make this change and get this woman out of prison.” She added that she has a list of people in prison that she wants to take to Trump, and said she is “very grateful and very hopeful that more good things are going to come out of our conversations.”
She also tried to explain her husband Kanye West’s controversial endorsements of the president. On social media, West has gone on several rants supporting Trump, and his inflammatory tweets have included everything from calling Trump “his brother” to posting pictures of a Make America Great Again hat.
“To make it clear, we’d talk about it and his policies, and he doesn’t necessarily agree with his policies. He likes his personality…and how he made it to be president when everybody really underestimated him,” she said, adding, “He’s not political so he doesn’t dig deep into what’s going on.”
Following the Kimmel interview, Twitter quickly took Kardashian to task, calling her uninformed and pointing out policies the Trump administration has initiated that deserve scrutiny, including the separation of children at the border. Critics also took offense to the tone of the interview—Kardashian laughed and joked that she had been naked when Trump called to tell her he had commuted Johnson’s sentence.
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Kardashian’s comments don’t address insults Trump has made about her in the past. In a 2013 interview with Howard Stern, Trump made crude remarks about her physical appearance, saying, “Does she have a good body? No. Does she have a fat ass? Absolutely.”
Others have questioned how committed Kardashian is to prison reform. On social media, many dismissed her initial meeting with Trump as a publicity stunt that benefits both reality show stars.
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