‘I Like Hitler,' Said Kanye West In An Interview, Got Him Banned From Twitter Again

Sensitive subjects certainly attract viewership and attention. But sometimes, enough is enough.

Kanye West, the American rapper and businessman, has made lots of headlines for many reasons. And this time around, he also went under the spotlight for his anti-Semitic comments, that made his Twitter account banned.

But later, his friend, Elon Musk, the billionaire who bought Twitter, reinstated his account. At first, West showed at least a little bit of remorse with his "shalom" greetings on Twitter.

When things seemed to be returning to normal, West started considering running for 2024 presidency.

But apparently, the peace didn't last long, because West is making yet another statement that would literally divide the internet, if left unchecked.

“I like Hitler. [...] I’m not trying to be shocking, I like Hitler. The Holocaust is not what happened, let’s look at the facts of that and Hitler has a lot of redeeming qualities,” he said.

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Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, at the Vogue World event in New York City in September 2022. (Credit:: Google)

He also denied Holocaust in an Alex Jones interview, asserting that Hitler, who West said had redeeming qualities.

"He had a really cool outfit and he was a really good architect [...] and he didn't kill 6 million Jews."

Even Alex Jones, the notorious person who also made headlines for becoming a conspiracy theorist and spreading fake news, rejected the pro-Nazi statements by West.

"You’re not Hitler, you’re not a Nazi, so you don’t deserve to be demonized," Jones told West, as he offered a hopeful opportunity to let West explain.

But West cut him off and turned the conversation in a darker direction.

"Well, I see good things about him," he said, referring to the genocidal Nazi leader.

"I love everyone. The Jewish people are not going to tell me 'you can love us and or you can love what we're doing to your contracts, but this guy (Hitler) that invented highways and invented the very microphone that I use as a musician - you cannot say out loud that he ever did anything good.' I'm done with that. I'm done with the classifications. Every human being has something of value that they bring to the table, especially Hitler."

"Every human being has something of value that they bring to the table, especially Hitler."

"I don't like the word 'evil' next to Nazis," he added later in the show. "I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis."

West then compared himself to Jews in the Holocaust, saying that "there are Jewish people basically hiding me under their floorboards right now. It's like a reverse version of the Holocaust."

West and Jones were joined by white supremacist Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denial.

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Jones went on to say that the rapper had a “Hitler fetish” and as the show cut to a commercial break, Jones told him that he did not like Nazis or Hitler, to which West shockingly replied: “I like Hitler.”

"They did good things too, we’ve got to stop dissing the Nazis all the time."

"The Jewish media has made us feel like the Nazis and Hitler have never offered anything of value to the world."

Later in the show, West pulled out a net on a stick and a bottle of chocolate milk. Pretending that the net was Benjamin Netanyahu, West put on a high voice in an attempt to seemingly mock the Israeli Prime Minister-elect, and had the stick say anti-Semitic stereotypes.

"I'm the head of the Mossad," he said, pretending the stick to be pretended Netanyahu.

"I'm going to kill you and take your children away from you. We control the history books and we control the banks, and we always kill people."

It's worth noting that West attended the show wearing a full face mask that didn't even have holes for the eyes and mouth.

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Kanye West's Twitter account is banned again.

In response to West, Jones, and Fuentes, Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog said that he is "sickened by the conversation."

"They engaged in hateful incitement, which could lead to violence and the death of Jews in horrifying incidents. Free speech does not extend to incitement of violence and demonization of the Jewish community, which faces the highest levels of religious-based violence in the United States."

Within about an hour of West’s comments going viral on Twitter, the House Judiciary GOP asked Twitter to delete the tweet.

In response, Twitter not only deleted the tweet, but also suspended Kanye West's account, again. Not only that, YouTube is also addressing the issue by removing videos of Alex Jones show uploaded to its platform.

West, who just had his divorce with Kim Kardashian finalized, has been dumped by Adidas, Balenciaga and many other famous brands since his discriminatory rants and his "White Lives Matter" shirt.

At this time, there are growing fears for West's mental health, with mounting criticism of Jones and his decision to bring him on the show.

"Since I lost my wife, since I lost my family and was no longer the priest in my home and have the say so, I was frustrated and I let the devil come and get me. I let the devil pull me in," Ye once said. "Next thing you know I'm at New Year's Eve parties having threesomes."

"They always want to write me off and say Ye is so crazy, so crazy, so crazy."