Rapper Lil Wayne described the lead-up to taking a now-viral photo with President Donald Trump in 2020, saying he doesn’t care about any backlash the photo brought him.
“Fuck no, I don’t care about no backlash for nothin’ I do, you know me, man,” Wayne told Rolling Stone in an interview published Thursday. “My mama woulda been mad if I ain’t smile. That might have been the only backlash I would have worried about.”
Wayne continued, saying he “don’t feel” anything about the photo.
“I don’t give a fuck about that type of shit. Tell ’em my dick big though,” Wayne said in the interview.
Wayne told Rolling Stone that he met with Trump in October 2020 in Florida to talk about criminal justice reform and that the photo was taken spontaneously.
“There was some people in there like, ‘Y’all should take a picture.’ He didn’t even ask for a picture,” Wayne said. “[It’s] poppin’ in this bitch. And he has these nice little two things with him, too. [Trump] says, ‘These motherfuckers asking me for fucking pictures all fucking day, man. Can we please?’ ”
Wayne continued: “I said, ‘It’s the president. OK.’ [Trump] was like, ‘Thank you. Bitches [been] bothering me all day.’ ”
Wayne told Rolling Stone that before his 2020 meeting with Trump, Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and his then-adviser, greeted Wayne and told him that Trump wanted to pardon him for his federal gun charges (which Trump ended up doing in 2021). Kushner also told Wayne that he was a huge fan of his.
“He’s naming the exams that he crammed [to while listening to me], that I helped him,” Wayne said. “He was like, ‘I’m not about to watch my hero go to jail for this.’ ”
Wayne also told Rolling Stone that he was asked to perform at Trump’s 2024 inauguration, but he “had something to do.”
Wayne has spoken little about politics. In 2016, he said he didn’t feel connected to the Black Lives Matter movement.
“I don’t feel connected to a damn thing that ain’t got nothin’ to do with me,” Wayne said on “Nightline.” “If you do, you crazy as shit. Not the camera, you.”
“I am a young Black rich motherfucker. If that don’t let you know that America understand Black motherfuckers matter these days, I don’t know what it is,” he said.
Even with Wayne’s viral photo with Trump, he never officially endorsed him and said he was never asked to.
“I would’ve told him, ‘You probably don’t want that,’ because I don’t know what’s going on,” Wayne said. “I can tell you who won the last game, but I can’t really … you know what I mean?”
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