Maggie Haberman explained that from her interviews with Trump she saw that bad publicity versus good publicity was irrelevant to him-- he just wants people talking about him, he wants his name on people’s lips all the time.
I don’t know if that’s what drives Kanye, but this sure reeks of it. I don’t know how Black America looks at him anymore, but I fear there is a subset of the community that will buy into this crap a la “Diamond and Silk”, not realizing how much damage they are doing.