Kanye West opens up about his decision to back President Trump and the MAGA movement in the new documentary In Whose Name?, which pulls from 3,000 hours of footage shot over six years. Ahead of his 2018 SNL appearance, West claimed he felt trapped in “current slavery,” pressured by peers not to “free his mind.” He said wearing the MAGA hat wasn’t about Trump’s policies but about resisting “mind control,” invoking Orwell’s 1984 and comparing it to Big Brother. West framed his support as a defiance of expectations placed on him as a Black man, saying, “People can’t tell me what to do because I’m Black.” He recalled feeling marginalized before fame and compared criticism of his red hat to that same prejudice. The rapper met with the president in 2018 at the White House and even launched his own short-lived presidential run in 2020. However, his legacy has been overshadowed by his anti-Semitic remarks, which cost him major brand deals, social media access, and his talent agency representation. Despite the backlash, West has doubled down, saying he won’t apologize.