It was a bravura performance by a supercharged ego, lecturing America as he banged his fist on the Resolute desk in the Oval Office.
No, this wasn’t Donald Trump venting about untrammeled immigration. It was Kanye West venting about, well, everything.
In the process he became the first person to ever use the word "motherf—–" at the White House while being beamed live into people’s homes on TV. It was a sight few could ever have imagined.
West – who recently restyled himself "Ye" – free-styled his way through a list of the most serious issues confronting the world’s only superpower.
Unemployment, mental illness, prison reform, gun violence, globalisation, and he had an answer for most of them….
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