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West will have lunch with the Republican
president and also meet with Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared
Kushner, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said. She did not
give a date but the New York Times reported they would meet on
Thursday.
“Kanye West is coming to the White House to have lunch with
President Trump and he will also meet with Jared Kushner,"
Sanders said in a statement. "Topics of discussions will include
manufacturing resurgence in America, prison reform, how to
prevent gang violence, and what can be done to reduce violence
in Chicago.
The influential rapper emerged as one of Trump’s most
high-profile celebrity supporters during the 2016 presidential
election campaign. He was booed at a concert shortly after the
election for declaring his support for Trump, although he said
he had not voted.
He was booed again last month when he appeared on stage after
the broadcast of the television show "Saturday Night Live"
season premiere wearing a Trump campaign trademark red MAGA
(Make America Great Again) hat.
On Monday, Trump pledged to end a "crime spree" in Chicago,
where West grew up, and called for loosening restrictions on
police in the third-largest U.S. city to allow stopping and
frisking suspects for weapons and other contraband.
In 2013, a federal judge ruled that the New York Police
Department’s use of stop and frisk tactics disproportionately
targeted black and Hispanic people, saying police had violated
the U.S. Constitution’s protections against unreasonable
searches.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Doina Chiacu; Editing by Susan
Thomas)
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