Wale & Tomi Lahren Start New Twitter War Over JAY-Z vs. Donald Trump

By Isha Thorpe

January 29, 2018

JAY-Z recently appeared on CNN's "The Van Jones Show" for an interview. The rapper-turned-mogul spoke about a number of topics including Donald Trump.  

When Jones asked JAY how he felt about Trump saying "terrible things" but putting "money in our pockets," Hov said he didn't like it "because it's not about money at the end of the day. Money doesn't equate to happiness. It doesn't. That's missing the whole point."

Then, the artist/businessman was asked his opinion about Trump's election and how it was the result of certain issues going unsolved. "You have sprayed perfume on the trash can," JAY said. "What you do when you do that is the bugs come. You spray something and you create a superbug because you don't take care of the problem. You don't take the trash out, you keep spraying whatever over it to make it acceptable. As those things grow, you create a superbug. And then now we have Donald Trump, the superbug."

Trump later responded to JAY's words on Twitter, saying: "Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!"

Though this is true, the black unemployment rate's declination is a result of policies that were put into place during the Obama administration. But, we digress...

Nevertheless, Tomi Lahren decided to defend Trump's tweet and she attacked JAY on social media, too. Never one to let the people down, Wale was quick to respond and challenge her views, once again.

 Check out their Twitter exchange below. 

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