A$AP Rocky, hip-hop’s current patron saint of Russian headwear, has had quite a tumultuous past few months.
Not that you needed us to tell you this, but President Trump’s been having a rocky time (pun intended) recently, too: He’s currently facing potential impeachment because he asked Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to do the U.S. “a favor” by investigating Trump’s political rival, 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden. The House of Representatives have been holding public hearings of testimonies from various White House staff. Rocky’s name just keeps coming up in the conversation, which is utterly amusing.
Gordon D. Sondland, the American ambassador to the European Union, testified to Congress today (November 20) and mentioned a short phone call he had with Trump following his conversation with Zelensky. “I have no reason to doubt that this conversation [between Trump and Zelensky] included the subject of investigations,” Sondland said, before detailing his own evidently riveting chat with Trump: “I think we primarily discussed A$AP Rocky.”
In July, Rocky was charged with assault after getting in a fight in Stockholm with two men who appeared to be following and harassing him and his entourage. Trump, ever the prompt social media poster, didn’t shy away from intervening and sharing his thoughts: “Just spoke to @KanyeWest about his friend A$AP Rocky’s incarceration,” read an actual tweet from the president. “I will be calling the very talented Prime Minister of Sweden to see what we can do about helping A$AP Rocky. So many people would like to see this quickly resolved!” No matter how many times #FreeRocky was tweeted, unfortunately, Trump couldn’t collude with Sweden enough to keep Rocky from being found guilty.
It will always be equal parts hilarious and awkward when old white dudes in politics rub elbows with notable rappers, but a rapper being mentioned so casually in what could be only the third impeachment in American history is the kind of strange coalescence that could only happen in 2019.
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