Thursday 4 August 2022 11:01 PM John Legend says Kanye's support of Trump 'became too much for us to sustain ... trends now

John Legend says his friendship with Kanye West is not what it used to be because of the rapper's support for former President Donald Trump. 

Legend spoke out about the pair's now-tarnished friendship on an episode of CNN's The Axe Files and revealed that they publicly disagreed on Kanye's running for office, supporting Trump and that it became 'too much for us to sustain our friendship, honestly.'

West was an outspoken supporter of Trump when the former president was in office, while Legend has been a longtime Trump critic. 

In the podcast episode released on Thursday,  Legend revealed that their falling out was also a result of West getting upset because he did not support Trump's run for the presidency.

'He was upset that I didn't support his run for presidency of the United States of America — for understandable reasons,' Legend said.

'Let me ask you about your relationship with him,' podcast host David Axelrod said, 'Because I know you're friends still, but he's, you know, his behavior and his politics, I guess — his politics are much different or have been much different than yours?'

Legend responded: 'Well, you know, we aren't friends as much as we used to be because I honestly think because we publicly disagreed on his running for office, his supporting Trump, I think it became, uh, too much for us to sustain our friendship, honestly.'

'He was upset that I didn't support his run for presidency of the United States of America for understandable reasons,' he added.

'You weren't alone in that by the way,' Axelrod said.

'I wasn't alone in that, but, you know, he was not happy about that. And we really haven't been close since then,' Legend said.

'What don't people understand about him?' Axelrod asked.

'Well, I think people get a lot about him. I think. Um, he's been very open with who he is and his

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