Donald Trump embraces Kanye West as he meets 'friend' for 15 minutes

Kanye West dramatically met President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday - and was embraced by the subsequent chief of the free world.

West swept in for a 15-minute assembly, headed upstairs - after which Trump descended to the foyer of Trump Tower to say goodbye to West.

It's an honor he has prolonged to only one different customer, and to not one of the folks he interviewed about top-level posts in his administration. 

'We're simply pals, simply pals. He's a very good man. Going properly. Very long time – We've been pals for a very long time,' Trump mentioned. 'Life, we mentioned life.'

Kanye didn't reply to questions on whether or not he would run in 2020 and mentioned: 'I simply need you to take my image proper now.'

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Buddies: Donald Trump embraced Kanye West after a 15-minute assembly at Trump Tower which the rapper had requested

Embrace: The political gesture of inviting Kanye West to Trump Tower and being seen with him will increase Trump

'Good man': Trump praised rapper Kanye West after their assembly in Trump Tower and wished the 39-year-old properly

Last parting: The 2 shook fingers then embraced as West left after his 15-minute assembly

Trump energy: Donald Trump escorted Kanye West to the foyer of Trump Tower after their 15-minute assembly, with daughter Ivanka additionally current

Joyful temper: Trump laughed as he posed with a largely unsmiling Kanye West after their Trump Tower assembly, whereas daughter Ivanka watched at his proper

'Take my image': Kanye West declined to reply questions and mentioned he simply wished his image taken

I am with him: Kanye West had mentioned that though he didn't vote, Trump was a 'genius' for profitable the election

Clique: A number of reporters requested Kanye if he would run for president in 2020, however he did not reply. Final yr, Trump mentioned he hoped in the future he might run in opposition to Kanye

As Kanye left Trump mentioned: 'Man, you deal with your self, I am going to see you quickly.'

It was a reference to the rapper's hospitalization resulting from a nervous breakdown. 

Trump had additionally introduced his daughter Ivanka all the way down to see off West and she or he was to the facet as they embraced. 

The rapper had swept into Trump Tower with an entourage which included his mother-in-law's 35-year-old boyfriend shortly after 9am for the assembly with the person he not too long ago known as a 'genius'.

TMZ reported that the assembly was at Kanye's request and that Trump had agreed to it.

The 39-year-old, who till not too long ago had been recovering from a nervous breakdown in hospital in Los Angeles, was taken upstairs with out chatting with reporters.

Trump's transition crew is at the moment in search of performers on the inauguration on January 20, and the addition of one in all rap's greatest names would clearly be an enormous coup.

Trump's inaugural committee is hoping to draw some star energy to the presidential inauguration in January, however efforts are reportedly developing brief.

A Hollywood supply informed TheWrap that the inaugural committee was speaking to Child Rock, Ted Nugent, Lee Greenwood and presumably Garth Brooks, who informed TMZ that he is open to the thought of performing. 

On the lookout for all my actual pals: Kanye West and the president-elect shared an elevator to Trump Tower's essential foyer earlier than they spoke to the press collectively

Departure: Donald Trump got here to the foyer of Trump Tower together with his visitor Kanye West - solely the second time he had descended to say farewell

The clock's ticking: Trump continues to be struggling to seek out performers for his inauguration in January

As I recall, I do know you like to indicate off: Kanye dressed down for his brief assembly with Trump, carrying a black crew-neck sweatshirt, black pants and white sneakers

She's with them: Ivanka Trump got here downstairs too because the rapper left together with her father, President-elect Donald Trump

Buddies: Trump mentioned he and Kanye had been long-term pals and had been speaking about 'life'

Holding on to what I imagine in: The main points of Trump and Kanye's assembly are nonetheless unknown, although the President-elect mentioned they mentioned 'life'

I ain't bought no points, I am simply doing my factor: Throughout the presidential marketing campaign Kanye was seen smiling for a selfie with Hillary Clinton. Months later he revealed that he would have voted for Trump

Handshake: West and Trump exchanged a handshake and hug because the rapper left the constructing

Presidential gesture: Donald Trump and Kanye West embraced after the president-elect escorted the rapper to the foyer of Trump Tower

However the identical supply mentioned the Trump crew actually wished extra well-liked acts – 'artists like Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars' – whose politics may not precisely align with these of the president-elect.

In an effort to appeal to high tier expertise, sources informed TheWrap that members of the Presidential Inaugural Committee have been providing up chilly arduous money, with a 'identify your worth' mentality.  

Two sources informed the publication that members of the Trump inaugural committee contacted them and supplied money, or perhaps a authorities appointment, to get expertise to return to the late January affair.

An inaugural committee spokesman denied all of it. 

West spoke in assist of the president-elect final month at a live performance, within the wake of Trump's victory of Hillary Clinton to again the Republican.

'If I'd've voted, I'd've voted Trump,' he informed a crowd throughout the live performance in San Jose, California. 

He additionally informed the group that Trump was a 'genius' for profitable.

He then added: 'Particularly to black folks, cease specializing in racism. This world is racist, okay? Let's cease being distracted. It is only a f***ing reality, we're in a racist nation, interval.'

The endorsement of the president-elect reportedly earned him boos. California voted closely for defeated Hillary Clinton.  

Yeezus! Kanye West and his entourage enter the foyer of Trump Tower

Stroll of fame: The foyer of Trump Tower has turn into the place to see who's who within the new Trump administration

On his technique to the highest: Kanye West was seen strolling via the swing doorways at Trump Tower on his technique to the elevator

Yeezy does it: Kanye was accompanied by amongst others Corey Gamble (behind Kanye), his mother-in-law Kris Jenner's 35-year-old boyfriend

Entourage: Kanye West was accompanied by a minimum of 5 folks as he breezed previous safety and into the financial institution of elevators

He is right here: West arrive simply after 9am at Trump Tower, the place the president-elect was scheduled to carry a collection of conferences

By the doorways: Kanye will get able to undergo the gilded doorways of Trump Tower on Manhattan's prestigious fifth Avenue

Heavy safety: Trump Tower has been was a mini-fortress with visitors blocked from outdoors and armed police on fixed guard

Amongst his entourage had been Kris Jenner's boyfriend, Corey Gamble, 35, who had been accompanying West throughout his journey to New York.

The go to to Trump Tower on New York's fifth Avenue got here after West was seen within the metropolis - his first public appearances since being launched from hospital after the breakdown.

It had been reported that he was in New York to recruit a psychiatrist within the wake of his breakdown, however the assembly at Trump Tower means that on the very least he has partially recovered.

A gathering with Trump will not be the perfect balm for what is claimed to be a troubled patch in his marriage to Kim Kardashian; she was a outstanding endorser of Clinton who made clear in September that she was voting for the Democrat.

For Trump the gesture is a big political transfer in reaching out to African-People and to millennials.

And honoring West by taking him to the foyer is an especially uncommon transfer.

The one different individual he escorted downstairs was a Japanese financial institution government who he had met to debate creating 50,000 new jobs in manufacturing in america.

The star arrival and departure put the remainder of the arrivals at Trump Tower within the shade - together with Mike Pence, the vice-president elect, and Gary Cohn, the Goldman Sachs chief working officer who will probably be his principal financial advisor.

Did not meet: Vice-president elect Mike Pence arrived shortly after the rapper's departure; the 2 didn't meet

Additionally in transition: Gary Cohn, who will probably be director of the Nationwide Financial Council was amongst different arrivals at Trump Tower

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