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Following Kanye West‘s appearance on Alex Jones’ InfoWars talk show last week, where he praised and admitted that he loves Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, Howard Stern is joining the long list of celebrities who are speaking out against the rapper — as it’s hardly the first time in recent months that Ye has spread antisemitic hate speech using his platform. 

During his SiriusXM radio show on Monday (Dec. 5), Stern shared that West’s antisemitism made the alt-right conspiracy theorist Jones appear like “a bleeding heart liberal.” He added, “Alex Jones kept trying to throw him a life preserver and Kanye would just slap it away. It was pretty f—ing crazy.”

“I guess he doesn’t know he is Black,” Stern expressed. “He doesn’t understand what Hitler thought of Jews, Black people. [He] thought they were all inferior. He wanted to sterilize Black people. […] For a Black man to be running around saying he loves Hitler, what happened to this guy? What in his life led him to this mental illness?”

Stern also noted a “psychological theory” that he has about West. “I’m sure I’m not the only one that thinks that maybe he hates being Black so much. He’s so self hating,” the radio host then explained. “He wants to wear a hood and pretend he’s a white man. A white man in the Nazi party. In a weird way despises being Black and wants to be accepted by Nazis.”

Listen to Howard Stern’s full SiriusXM episode here.

Kanye West sent the Internet into shock when he joined alt-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his InfoWars talk show on Thursday (Dec. 1), where he openly admitted that he loves Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

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“Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler. How about that one?” he told Jones, who was noticeably uncomfortable as he tried to tell Ye that he thinks “most Jews are great people.” Jones then told Ye that he has a “bit of a Hitler fetish going on,” to which the rapper replied, “It’s not a fetish. I just like information.”

“I don’t like the word ‘evil’ next to Nazis,” Ye later said, undeterred by Jones’ discomfort. “I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis.” Later in the interview, Ye reiterated that it’s “time to promote love” by ultimately declaring, “I do love Hitler. I do love the Zionists.”

Following his terrifying remarks, Twitter users expressed their concern and disdain for the comments across the platform — as it’s hardly the first time in recent months that Ye has spread antisemitic hate speech using his platform. Soon enough, “Kanye” was trending on Twitter across the country. See some of the reactions below.

To everyone who was refusing to accept that Kanye is spewing antisemitism and cozying up to white supremacists: the man done announced he likes HITLER. How you defending this one???? pic.twitter.com/scac7t2IqZ— Olayemi Olurin (@msolurin) December 1, 2022

You know Kanye has reached a point of no return when he makes Alex Jones look normal.— anthony “light 1” fantano (@theneedledrop) December 1, 2022

Republicans have normalized hate so much in America that Kanye can wildly declare how much he loves Nazis and Hitler, and folks are like ¯_(ツ)_/¯.So disgusted right now.— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) December 1, 2022

People are gonna joke about Kanye. People are gonna blame his mental health. But the truth is that he’s normalizing Nazism for a whole lot of people. I know that word is overused but folks will be googling Hitler tonight. It’s so incredibly dangerous.— Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll) December 1, 2022

Kanye going on Alex Jones to say “I like Hitler” should really be mind-blowing, but in 2022 it’s just a Thursday.— Randy the Savage (@reannadilley) December 1, 2022

sadly the Kanye saga doesn’t have a good ending 😔— Erick Khan (@ErickKhan_) December 1, 2022