Kanye’s Summit With Trump Triggers Social Media Eruption: ‘Wildest Oval Office Event I’ve Ever Seen’

The Twitterverse was clearly not prepared for the bottomless insanity that resulted from President Donald Trump‘s meeting today with Kanye West.

Even though the summit was bound to be media spectacle by default, it ended up going in all sorts of strange directions as West showered Trump with praise, proposed a litany of ideas, and waxed on and on about his…unique perspectives on various issues. As such, political observers had a LOT to say.

Some people were taken aback by the part where West allowed his iPhone passcode to be broadcast on live TV.

Kanye with the expert 000000 passcode pic.twitter.com/blUMExjfnN

— Kenny Ducey (@KennyDucey) October 11, 2018

.@Snowden quick question:

Is there ever a situation in which it is a good idea from an OpSec perspective to have a non-USG employee who appears to be close friends with POTUS display his phone password live on TV (to say nothing of it being “000000”)?

Asking for a “friend”.

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) October 11, 2018

If you ever find Kanye’s cell phone, “000000” is the passcode to all the Kim nudes.https://t.co/bKg2g5TbS1 pic.twitter.com/EDQRw3TK3S

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) October 11, 2018

Kanye is, like, casually dropping major insights about how Trump tapped into masculine anxiety in America to win the presidency and everybody like OK BUT HIS IPHONE PASSWORD IS 00000

— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) October 11, 2018

Kanye West with that air-tight, maximum security passcode ? pic.twitter.com/tA1ctKxxis

— IGZ (@igzrap) October 11, 2018

Others, especially in Trump-world, were delighted:

Amazing day in the Oval Office with President Trump’s biggest supporters! pic.twitter.com/SzxaH3AB0s

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) October 11, 2018

One President
One Country
One Love #MAGA pic.twitter.com/HGqbRBRrwA

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) October 11, 2018

Close but no cigar compared to what Clinton did there. https://t.co/5b1JLI2Qsj

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) October 11, 2018

Inject this directly into my heart pic.twitter.com/qiwJBAwfMf

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) October 11, 2018

Well said Kanye. The shooting sports have always played a big part in my life. They teach responsibility, discipline, concentration and so much more. Good guys (who register, get licensed and own guns legally) are not the issue — Bad guys and criminals are! ?????? https://t.co/xPQBy0qNqm

— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) October 11, 2018

And others just simply feaked out.

Well………THAT was different…..

— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) October 11, 2018

Wildest Oval Office event I’ve ever seen. https://t.co/ESfcQM29Ew

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 11, 2018

Today would be a good day for Kanye West to release his medical records.

— Timroid (@Timroid1) October 11, 2018

A reminder that plenty of Trump advisors enabled and encouraged this mockery of the dignity of the Oval Office today https://t.co/qYzUSgKJui

— Elise Jordan (@Elise_Jordan) October 11, 2018

“Time is a myth.” – Kanye West

— Jill Colvin (@colvinj) October 11, 2018

That awkward moment when you only have one black friend, and it’s a crazy asshole like Kanye West pic.twitter.com/cEPI8UvrBj

— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) October 11, 2018

I dunno what to fucking do with this

— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) October 11, 2018

I ?rest?my?case? #KanyeWest ???? https://t.co/f9Onwndtyb

— Tara Setmayer (@TaraSetmayer) October 11, 2018

Overheard in the White House press room after reporters left a rambling Oval Office pool spray with President Trump and Kanye West: “Working here is officially insane.”

— Andrew Restuccia (@AndrewRestuccia) October 11, 2018

Just when you think we can’t sink any lower, Kanye West is in the Oval Office talking to reporters. By the way, Mr. Trump, there was a really bad hurricane.

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 11, 2018

This lede is the worst thing to ever happen to me. pic.twitter.com/FZ7FnJSYJF

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 11, 2018

Obama on Kanye and Taylor Swift holds up okay … pic.twitter.com/1LrnrO1Ltk

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 11, 2018

I have never been happier to be on a plane all day flying across the country with no TV.

— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) October 11, 2018

Sen. Flake, alone with his wireless earbuds on, is looking down into his phone and watching video of Kanye West in the Oval.

Walk over and pull him aside in the Senate basement.

“Reality meets reality television,” Flake tells me, shaking his head.

— Robert Costa (@costareports) October 11, 2018

MSNBC immediate reaction after Kanye West’s Oval Office visit — (presented here as a GIF) pic.twitter.com/oS8lLUoTII

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) October 11, 2018

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