- Trump has issued multiple statements since the dinner, and has claimed that he did not know who Fuentes was before he arrived at Mar-a-Lago with West.
- According to Trump, he was only trying to help Ye, whom he described as “a seriously troubled man.”
- Ye took a screenshot of Shapiro’s tweet and included a screenshot from a blogpost by far-left Media Matters that tried to generate a fake controversy by highlighting that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) was paying to run advertisements.
