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Donald Trump Thanks Chance The Rapper

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL – MARCH 23: Chance the Rapper performs live on stage during the first day of Lollapalooza Brazil at Interlagos Racetrack on March 23, 2018 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Mauricio Santana/Getty Images)

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The endless, numbing death march of the Donald Trump/Kanye West love affair continues, and now it's sucking other people into its gravitational pull. Trump has started to take public delight in all the nice things that West is saying about him. Meanwhile, West's peers -- including John Legend, Janelle Monàe, J. Cole, and possibly Frank Ocean -- have spoken out in one way or another against West's support of the president. But one person who has stood by West is Chance The Rapper.

Earlier this week, when the whole Kanye/Trump story was just heating up, Chance jumped on Twitter to say that he's spoken to West and that this is not all an example of a mentally ill celebrity wilding out. He then went on to say that the Democratic Party is not entitled to the support of black people:

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