Uh-Oh. KanyeGate 2009 just got real!
The President of The United States has been caught on tape lighting into Kanye West. TMZ just obtained audio of President Barack Obama referring to the hip-hop heavyweight as “a jackass” in the aftermath of the rapper’s infamous stage-storming during Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards 2009 in New York City on Sunday night.
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Kanye West has personally apologized to Taylor Swift. Representatives from ABC’s daytime gabfest The View have announced that the embattled rapper called the 19-year-old country star after her appearance on Tuesday’s show to say that he sorry for hijacking her MTV Video Music Awards acceptance speech on Sunday.
Taylor has accepted the apology, telling Taylor told ABC News Radio: “Kanye did call me and he was very sincere in his apology and I accepted that apology.”
On The View Tuesday, country star Taylor Swift chatted with the ladies about her run-in with Kanye West at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards.
“I think my overall thought process went something like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe I won. This is awesome. Don’t trip and fall. I’m going to get to thank the fans. This is so cool. Oh, Kanye West is here! Cool haircut,” Taylor giggled. “What are you doing?’ And then ‘Ouch.’ And then, ‘I guess I’m not gonna get to thank the fans.” Read the rest of this entry »
Even President Barack Obama has an opinion on Krazy Kanye’s stage-storming at Sunday night’s VMAs, according to Politico.com.
On Monday night, ABC’s Terry Moran Tweeted: “Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a ‘jackass’ for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential.”
Moran deleted the post soon after, but not before catching the attention of his more than 1 million followers.
“In the process of reporting on remarks by President Obama that were made during a CNBC interview, ABC News employees prematurely tweeted a portion of those remarks that turned out to be from an off-the-record portion of the interview,” according to a statement issued by ABC News shortly after Moran’s Tweets emerged. “This was done before our editorial process had been completed. That was wrong. We apologize to the White House and CNBC and are taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again.”
(Which means, no one is disputing Obama made the comment, just that it wasn’t meant for publication.)
Kanye West publicly apologized for his behavior at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards during an interview with Jay Leno on Monday night’s premiere episode of The Jay Leno Show on NBC.
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