Billionaire rap artist and fashion designer Ye, formerly known as “Kanye West,” took to Truth Social on Thursday night to reveal a text message exchange between himself and Twitter CEO Elon Musk after being placed under a 12-hour Twitter suspension.
In the text messages posted by Ye, the African American Tesla CEO-turned Big Tech mogul declared that the “Runaway” artist had gone “too far” by tweeting out a photo of what appears to be a swastika mixed with the jewish star of David, with the caption “YE24 LOVE EVERYONE #LOVESPEECH.”
Kanye West promotes his 2024 Presidential campaign with symbol that seems to be a swastika inside the Star of David. pic.twitter.com/slH3HxyOYd
— Pop Base (@PopBase) December 2, 2022
Shortly after Ye posted the image, Musk apparently texted him “Sorry, but you have gone too far. This is not love.”
Truth Social
“Who made you the judge,” Ye retorted, according to the screenshots.
Truth Social
After Ye appeared to post his text messages with the Twitter CEO, the initial tweet containing the controversial image was labeled as violating the social media platform’s policies and ultimately removed.
“Well everyone we had a nice run Jesus is King,” Ye wrote in the tweet revealing his conversations with Musk, seemingly alluding to the possibility that he may be dealt a Twitter ban over his remarks.
In his very first post to Truth Social, 45th President Donald Trump’s social media platform, Ye revealed an additional text message exchange with Musk with the caption “Standing in truth with two Jan 6ers as we speak Jesus is King #ye24.”
In the Truth Social post, Musk apparently replied to Ye with the Lord’s Prayer.
“Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven,” Musk wrote to Ye.
“I’m Jesus name,” Ye replied, potentially including a typo. Ye also sent Musk what seems to be a screenshot of a Twitter message indicating that he was placed on a 12-hour suspension.
Truth Social
Ye then tweeted out the viral image of Musk, shirtless while on a yacht in Mykonos, Greece with the caption “Let’s always remember this as my final tweet #ye24.”
Though this tweet was available at the original time of publication, Ye’s account is no longer visible on the website.
Let’s always remember this as my final tweet #ye24 pic.twitter.com/ORzB5tdINd
— ye (@kanyewest) December 2, 2022
Musk then replied to two of Ye’s tweets, asserting that the shirtless photo of himself is “fine” to post on Twitter, but added that Ye’s swastika image tweet “is not.”
That is fine
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
This is not
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
“Just clarifying that his account is being suspended for incitement to violence, not an unflattering pic of me being hosed by Ari. Frankly, I found those pics to be helpful motivation to lose weight!” Musk added in a subsequent tweet.
Just clarifying that his account is being suspended for incitement to violence, not an unflattering pic of me being hosed by Ari.
Frankly, I found those pics to be helpful motivation to lose weight!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
Earlier on Thursday, Ye joined Alex Jones on his Infowars radio show alongside confidant and America First activist Nick Fuentes, where the two expressed their viewpoints on Jewish people that many critics online have claimed are anti-Semitic.
During the show, Ye allowed Jones, Fuentes, and election integrity activist Ali Alexander to tweet from his account with over 32 million followers, Valiant News reported.
Jones was banned from Twitter for making fun of a CNN reporter in Congress in 2018, and was recently ordered to pay $1 billion to families of the Sandy Hook school shooting victims.
“I love the first amendment!” Jones tweeted from the @kanyewest account. “Long live Ye! I pray to Jesus that Elon is for real…” he wrote, after a discussion with Ye about what he should tweet.
This article has been updated.
