Trump recently dined with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes

Last month, Ye had dinner with Donald Trump and a few friends at Mar-a-Lago. One of the guests was Nick Fuentes, an up-and-coming Neo-Nazi who seems to be serving as an advisor for Ye’s prospective Presidential campaign. Another was Karen Giorno, who ran the Florida branch of Trump’s 2020 campaign. The fourth guest initially went unidentified.

Within a few days, a trickle of information about the anonymous guest started to emerge. NBC cited Ye referring to the man as “a parent of a student at his private school in California, Donda Academy.” Milo Yiannopoulos, who briefly attached himself to Ye’s fledgling campaign and apparently organized the dinner (though he didn’t attend), said that he was “unsure of why the man traveled with them.” During Ye’s short appearance on Tim Pool’s podcast, he identified the guest as a “Boeing engineer” named Jamar Montgomery. That piqued my interest—why would Ye bring a rando employed by an elite multinational weapons manufacturer to his meeting with Trump?

Ye’s association with Montgomery is particularly odd given his recent public rupture with personal trainer (and former Canadian military drug researcher) Harley Pasternak in the wake of Pasternak’s threat to forcibly medicate Ye and send him “back to Zombieland forever.” I worry Ye might have just traded one set of handlers for another.