Kanye West Goes To Trump Tower For ’15-minute Sit-down With President-elect’

Kanye West is holding a 15-minute sit-down with President-elect Donald Trump. The rapper swept into Trump Tower with an entourage which included his mother-in-law’s 35-year-old boyfriend shortly after 9am for the meeting with the man he recently called a ‘genius’.

The 39-year-old, who until recently had been recovering from a nervous breakdown in hospital in Los Angeles, was taken upstairs without speaking to reporters.

It is unclear if he is meeting Trump or another member of the transition team, or part of the Trump business empire. The tower also has other tenants.

Trump’s transition team is currently looking for performers at the inauguration on January 20, and the addition of one of rap’s biggest names would clearly be a huge coup.

West spoke in the wake of Trump’s victory of Hillary Clinton to back the Republican.

‘If I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted Trump,’ he told a crowd during a concert in San Jose, California.

He also told the crowd that Trump was a ‘genius’ for winning.

He then added: ‘Specifically to black people, stop focusing on racism. This world is racist, ok? Let’s stop being distracted. It’s just a f***ing fact, we are in a racist country, period.’

I love it that Kanye is speaking out about his beliefs — and also that he appears to be doing so well. Who would’ve loved to been a fly on the wall of that meeting?

Check out the handshake between them when they met: