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Twitter basically melted down with all of this Kanye West/Donald Trump drama

Thank goodness for the internet during these hard times.

Martha Tesema

on April 25, 2018

Twitter basically melted down with all of this Kanye West/Donald Trump drama

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 13: (L to R) President-elect Donald Trump and Kanye West stand together in the lobby at Trump Tower, December 13, 2016 in New York City. President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team are in the process of filling cabinet and other high level positions for the new administration. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Credit: Getty Images

Kanye West has taken a metaphorical sledgehammer and destroyed the internet, once again.

The rapper and designer is back on Twitter (in time to promote his new album out this June, interestingly enough) but his somewhat deep and relatively mild thoughts about time and conciseness took dark turn this week.

On Wednesday, West tweeted extensively about Donald Trump and their shared "dragon energy" and then shared images of him with a MAGA hat on (and music executive Lyor Cohen flashing the the "OK" hand symbol, which also happens to be a hand sign of the alt-right).

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So what do the good people of Twitter do when their favorite rapper has gone rogue? Make jokes and memes, of course.

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And since so much had to do with Get Out, it was only appropriate that its Oscar-winning writer Jordan Peele weigh in with a slightly cryptic tweet of his own.

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In times of despair, at least we have a good meme to turn to. If only it helped.

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