President Donald Trump once asked his staff whether they could have Kanye West hold a church service at the White House, according to Alyssa Farah Griffin.
The “The View” co-host, who worked as Trump’s White House director of strategic communications and assistant to the president in 2020, shared the “wildest thing” she was asked to do for her former boss while appearing on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” Tuesday.
“One day he wanted to have Kanye West come and do a church service on the White House lawn to unify the country, and I could think of few things less unifying than that. But we were like, ‘Not the time or place, sir,'” she recalled.
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The “Gold Digger” rapper, 47, began hosting his Sunday Services, which saw him and a gospel choir singing religious songs for his famous friends and family, in 2019.
Three years prior, West made headlines for meeting with and vocalizing his support for Trump, 78, after the real estate mogul was elected president.
“I felt that I knew people who voted for Trump that were celebrities that were scared to say that they liked him. But they told me, and I liked him, and I’m not scared to say what I like,” he told the New York Times in 2018.
The Yeezy founder recalled feeling pressured to vote for 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton because he was “black” and a “very sensitive soul.”
“I hear Trump talk, and I’m like, I like the way it sounds, knowing that there’s people who like me that don’t like the way it sounds,” he told the newspaper.
West later released songs in which he praised the commander-in-chief, including “Lift Yourself” and “Ye vs. the People.”
The Grammy winner also famously wore a red baseball cap featuring Trump’s political slogan, “Make America Great Again,” when he visited the president at the White House in 2018.
However, their relationship became more complicated when West announced he would be running for office as a third-party candidate in 2020.
The “Flashing Lights” rapper and Trump, who was seeking re-election at the time, both lost to former Vice President Joe Biden, but West relaunched his campaign in 2022 and asked the “Apprentice” alum to be his vice president.
Ye has since dropped out of the race and fractured his relationship with Trump by bringing white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes to a dinner with the former POTUS at Mar-a-Lago in 2022.
Shortly after, Trump took to his Truth Social platform to deny he knew about Fuentes, 25, joining the pair and called West a “seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black.”
“He shows up with 3 people, two of which I didn’t know, the other a political person who I haven’t seen in years,” he wrote at the time. “I told him don’t run for office, a total waste of time, can’t win. Fake News went CRAZY!”
