Kanye West’s Trump Tweets Have Inspired Jordan Peele to Write "Get Out 2" (As a Joke, But Still)

If there’s anything good to come from Kanye West’s latest tweet-storm, it might be a sequel to Get Out.

Jordan Peele, the Oscar-winning writer and director of 2017’s best movie, has joked about taking inspiration from West’s most recent stream of tweets, in which the rapper (*deep, depressing breath*) insisted U.S. President Donald Trump is his "brother," showed off his signed "Make America Great Again" hat, and revealed he’s "nice at ping pong". (Okay, that last one didn’t really bother anyone.)

Earlier in the week—which, honestly, feels like twelve years ago—West outlined his upcoming album release plans, joking about "chopping samples from the sunken place," a reference to the psychological prison the evil white family from Get Out sends their daughter’s captive black boyfriends and girlfriends.

Today, he followed that reference—and all the confused primal screaming his tweets have incurred—with some photos, asking, "Do this look like the sunken place?"

Peele, of course, was watching.

*Gets inspired
*Starts writing ‘Get Out 2’ https://t.co/zqOW6Xxx9v

— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) April 25, 2018

Unfortunately, the rest of us didn’t make an iconic film about black identity in America, so we can’t type the perfect Twitter joke and are instead left with our complicated feelings about West, who reportedly admitted to having an opioid addiction at the time of his concert tour’s breakdown in 2016.

Needless to say, many fans (and former fans) are struggling to come up with any justification for his support of Trump (whose many, many, many questionable comments and actions regarding race have been well documented). In an effort to rationalise their politics with Kanye’s comments, some are pointing to West's donation to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and a tweet in which he says, "I love Hillary too." Pitchfork even spoke to a professor who argues West solely sees Trump as a pop culture icon, rather than a political figure, and says he still hasn’t reckoned with the death of his mother, or the gunpoint-robbery of his wife Kim Kardashian West. And Chance the Rapper—a politically-active native of West’s home, Chicago—defended West by saying, "Black people don’t have to be democrats."

And then, there are of course those who are very aware of the fact West just returned to Twitter to promote his new album, out 1 June, suggesting he’s using the media machine to generate controversy.

Kardashian West, for her part, called Kanye and told him to clarify his comments, and even sent out a message saying she disagreed with his stance on Trump. She also defended her husband and criticised the media for suggesting he has "mental health issues".

Donald Trump, meanwhile, just seems glad to have a famous supporter that isn't Kid Rock, Ted Nugent or Scott Baio.

Anyway, this is a very stressful album-rollout and it’s only been one week.

Photo: Twitter (kanyewest) / Universal