Trump calls Kim Kardshian the ‘world’s most overrated celebrity’ and was only interested in commuting prison sentences if Kanye was involved in rant about new book
Former President Donald Trump called Kim Kardashian “the most overrated celebrity in the world” when he took down an account that said he asked the reality star for help luring “football stars” to the White House.
Trump left Truth Social Wednesday after ABC’s Jonathan Karl reported in his new book: Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Partythat the then president had the Kardashian ask.
In the waning days of his administration, Kardashian — who worked to get non-violent offenders out of prison — had asked Trump to commute more sentences, as he had done after their highly publicized Oval Office meeting in 2018.
A source told Karl that “Trump listened to her requests and demanded an outright quid pro quo.”
“He would allow the lump sum payments, he told Kardashian, if she used her celebrity connections to have football stars who were friends of hers visit him at the White House,” the ABC News reporter wrote.
Former President Donald Trump (right) called Kim Kardashian (left) “the most overrated celebrity in the world” when he took down an account that said he asked the reality star for help luring “football stars” to the White House. She visited the White House in 2018
Trump left Truth Social Wednesday after ABC’s Jonathan Karl reported in his new book, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party, that the then-president had Kardashian asked
“Kardashian essentially tried to do what Trump demanded and saw it as a small price to pay to get justice for people she believed were serving unjust sentences. But all the players she approached refused,” Karl said. “Trump had become too toxic. In the last two weeks of his presidency, no one wanted to be around him.”
While Trump said on Truth Social that there were “many other false stories in Karl’s very boring book,” the journalist did report that Trump was angry at Kardashian’s support for Biden, similar to the hostility he showed on Wednesday.
In his Truth Social post, Trump called Karl a “Failed ABC Fake News Reporter,” adding that he “works sooo hard, but has sooo little talent.”
“In the ‘book’ he has the world’s most overrated celebrity, Kim Kardashian, supposedly telling me she would ‘use her celebrity to bring football stars to the White House’ if I commuted the sentences of several inmates, Trump wrote. “This story is Fake News because she would be the last person I asked to get footballers.”
Trump then boasted that he had “many teams from all sports and leagues in the White House.”
While largely true, Trump also had some notable skips, in part because he vocally opposed NFL players kneeling during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner to protest racial injustice in the United States.
After inviting the Philadelphia Eagles to the White House in 2018, he withdrew the team’s invitation before members could boycott his visit, as they had planned to do.
Trump then held a South Lawn event for Eagles fans instead, where he emphasized the importance of respecting the American flag.
Trump also admitted to helping with prisoner commutations “but only if it was deserved, and much more so for Kanye West (pictured) than for Kim, who probably voted for Crooked Joe Biden, and look at the mess our country is in is now located.’
Kanye West, pictured in New Hampshire earlier this month, got Trump into political trouble shortly after announcing his 2024 run last November by taking Holocaust denier and white supremacist Nick Fuentes to dinner at Mar-a -Lago with the ex-president
“If there was even the slightest reluctance, I would immediately withdraw the invitation, there would be NO negotiations – but this didn’t happen often,” Trump said in his post on Wednesday.
He also admitted to helping in prisoner commutations “but only if he deserved it, and much more so for Kanye West than for Kim, who probably voted for Crooked Joe Biden, and look at the mess our country is in now is located.’
Kardashian filed for divorce from West in January 2021, and the prominent rapper has since made headlines for his erratic behavior, anti-Semitic comments and association with Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist and Holocaust denier.
West took Fuentes out to Mar-a-Lago to dine with the ex-president around Thanksgiving last November, setting off a firestorm for Trump, who had just announced his 2024 presidential ambitions.
Kardashian never explicitly said she was a Biden supporter, although she posted a photo of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris with three blue hearts after Democrats won the 2020 election against Trump.
While Trump said on Truth Social that there were “many other false stories in Karl’s very boring book,” the journalist did report that Trump was angry at Kardashian’s support for Biden, similar to the hostility he showed on Wednesday.
Months after Trump left the White House, Kardashian reached out to him to see if he would be open to a high-profile plea for clemency.
She “received a call back from Trump quickly,” Karl wrote.
“Nope,” the former president told her. He wouldn’t do it. “You voted for Biden and now you come to ask me for a favor?” Trump told her,” the ABC journalist said. “After a few more choice words, the line went dead. Trump hung her up.”