The rapper formerly known as Kanye West walked out of an interview with podcaster Tim Pool Monday night, taking with him far-right provocateurs Nick Fuentes and Milo Yiannopoulos. The duo is helping the 45-year-old performer with his attention-grabbing 2024 presidential campaign.

West — now known as Ye — became outraged when Pool tried asking the “Black Skinhead” performer about his ongoing campaign of anti-Semitism that began with an Oct. 8 social media posting in which Ye vowed to go “Death con 3 on Jewish people.”

Ye began his visit to “Timcast IRL” with a rambling lecture about all the forces he felt were working toward his demise, which included Jewish people and the Internal Revenue Service. Pool heard out his guest and even generically offered, “they have been extremely unfair,” which Ye saw as an opening.

“Who is ‘they’ though?” Ye asked. “We can’t say who ‘they’ is?”

Pool said he was referring to the “corporate press” in his statement, not Jewish people.

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That’s when Fuentes — a white nationalist and Holocaust skeptic who last week joined Ye and Yiannopoulos for a dinner meeting with former president Donald Trump — interjected.

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“It is ‘them’ though isn’t it?” Fuentes said. “Consider it.”

When Pool said “No, it’s not,” Ye became upset.

“What do you mean, it’s not?” Ye asked.

When the host tried to explain, Ye, off-camera, left the recording studio. After some confusion, the disgraced pop-star’s team followed his lead and the interview was over.

Before making his dramatic exit, Ye claimed the IRS froze several bank accounts because he owed $50 million in back taxes. He alleged Feds were trying to imprison him over that alleged debt. If true, that tax bill would further chip away at Ye’s diminishing commercial value.

According to Forbes, his net worth dropped from $1.5 billion to $400 million after business partners including Adidas started distancing themselves from his antisemitic rhetoric. Adding to Ye’s woes, TMZ reported Monday that a family judge ordered him to pay $200,000 a month in child support to his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.

The IRS said it is prohibited by Federal law to comment on an individual’s tax status.





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