Kanye West insults Trevor Noah after host likens harassment of Kim Kardashian to abuse

TV host Trevor Noah got here out weapons blazing Tuesday night time with a monologue that mentioned the harassment Kim Kardashian is experiencing from ex-husband Kanye West.

The rapper, now often called Ye, responded Wednesday morning by calling “The Day by day Present” host a racist slur.

“All in collectively now,” Ye wrote round 6 a.m. Wednesday on Instagram, then went into lyrics from the track “Kumbaya,” distorted to incorporate a racial epithet. The caption featured a display screen seize exhibiting footage of Noah, who’s South African, with the data blurb that Google serves up when somebody searches for a well-known particular person.

His slam on Noah was a part of Ye’s most up-to-date social-media tear, which included new criticisms of “Saturday Night time Dwell” star Pete Davidson, who has been courting Kardashian.

Ye highlighted a Breitbart headline from January 2019 that referenced Davidson making jokes about having intercourse with a child, and wrote in one other caption, “Im actually involved that SKETE will get my youngsters mother hooked on medicine He’s in rehab each 2 months.”

He additionally criticized the comic’s Hillary Clinton tattoo and mocked “SNL” author Dave Sirus, who just lately posted texts between Davidson and West on his personal Instagram account.

Wednesday’s flurry of social media exercise got here after Noah gave a heartfelt monologue (now getting used as a fundraiser in opposition to home violence) during which he checked out Kardashian’s scenario from a barely totally different perspective: one the place the wonder and actuality TV mogul can also be a human being.

Noah famous that the continued Kim-Kanye-Pete drama has “grown right into a story that appears absolutely tabloid, however I believe … deserves a little bit extra consciousness from most people … as a result of it touches on one thing that’s extra delicate and extra severe than folks want to admit.”

After speaking concerning the just lately revealed texts between Ye and Davidson — in them the rapper requested the place the comedian was, to which Davidson replied, “I’m in mattress together with your spouse” — Noah mentioned that what he’s seeing on this scenario is a lady who needs to go on together with her life with out being harassed by her ex.

“What she’s going by way of is terrifying to look at, and it shines a highlight on what so many ladies undergo once they select to depart. , folks at all times say that phrase to girls. They go, ‘Why didn’t you allow?’ … Yeah. As a result of plenty of girls notice once they do go away, the man will get even crazier. And once I say ‘loopy,’ I don’t imply ‘psychological well being loopy,’” he mentioned.

Earlier than speaking about his personal childhood, rising up in an abusive family, Noah spoke plainly.

“What we’re seeing … is without doubt one of the strongest, one of many richest girls on the earth, unable to get her ex to cease texting her, to cease chasing after her, to cease harassing her,” he mentioned. “Simply take into consideration that for a second. Take into consideration how highly effective Kim Kardashian is, and she will’t get that to occur.”

Noah mentioned he witnessed abuse as a baby and noticed the response from household, associates and even the police, who questioned his mom for what was taking place to her, relatively than query the habits itself. He mentioned he watched it for about seven years.

“I’ll always remember at some point, I bought a name from my brother saying, ‘Hey, Mother has simply been shot within the head. She’s within the hospital now. She’s simply been shot,’” Noah mentioned. (His mom survived being shot within the head and leg by her ex-husband — the bullet missed her mind — and his stepfather was convicted of tried homicide.)

“I’m not saying Kanye will,” Noah mentioned. “I’m not saying that. However you see it in all these tales the place folks say, ‘We noticed it, however we didn’t…’”

It’s paying homage to how the 2016 story about Kardashian being robbed at gunpoint in Paris developed.

At first, many within the public 100% doubted she had been tied up, thrown in a tub and needed to beg for her life whereas armed criminals ransacked her lodge room and stole $10 million value of jewellery and different valuables. She was accused of staging your entire factor, till all of it turned out to be true.

Then some people famous how totally different the information would have been acquired if the headline had been “American girl robbed at gunpoint in Paris” as an alternative of “Kim Kardashian robbed at gunpoint in Paris.” Would a plain-old American girl have been accused of faking it, they puzzled.

Since then, Kardashian has modified her life-style, now not making details about her location and her jewellery available on social media. She just lately handed the so-called child bar in pursuit of a legislation diploma. And she or he is a single girl once more, although her monetary and custody preparations with Ye aren’t settled but.

“I’m not saying Kanye’s only a dangerous man. Please,” Noah mentioned in his monologue. “However simply as society, you recognize, we’ve got to ask ourselves questions. Will we want to stand by and watch a automobile crash after we thought we noticed it coming? Or can we a minimum of wish to say, ‘Hey, decelerate … let’s all put our hazards on, ‘trigger there’s a storm proper now and a few s— may go down.’ If it doesn’t occur, the worst is all of us had our hazards on like idiots.”

And he closed with this: “All I’m saying about this story is, if Kim can not escape this — Kim Kardashian, if she can not escape this, then what likelihood do regular girls have?”