Another one bites the dust. Kanye West’s personal trainer, Harley Pasternak, who he recently gave a shoutout during his interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, says he has officially cut ties with the man he has considered a friend for 15 years. Pasternak, who is Jewish, says his decision to keep his distance from Ye comes after the rapper made an anti-semitic remark on Twitter over the weekend which infuriated a lot of celebs, predominantly those of Jewish descent.
in an interview with Newsweek, Pasternak, who has famously trained countless stars, including Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, Megan Fox, and Adam Levine, to name a few, said he had a five-hour conversation with West on Sunday, during which time he realized Ye was clearly on the verge of a meltdown. “I will not speak with him again until he issues a formal apology,” he told the publication. “If people continue to give him a platform to discuss hateful, antisemitic rhetoric, they’re complicit, so I applaud Facebook and Twitter.”
Kanye West has more than 3 million followers. He threatened to go “death con 3” on Jewish people. I don’t hear his GOP supporters coming out to condemn this. Instead, Jewish people are being told to get over it because he isn’t serious.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 9, 2022
Pasternak also took issue that there appeared to be more outrage when West wore a “White Lives Matter” shirt at his Yeezy fashion show in Paris last week than the remark he had made about the Jewish community, prompting him to ask why the same energy was not being kept when Ye came after the Jews. “The amount of outrage that came from a T-shirt that he wore a few days earlier was a millionfold more vocal than the tweet that he implied that he was going to wipe out a race of people.”
Pasternak believes that the only people who were actually defending the Jewish were Jews themselves, whereas, in comparison to the outrage that came from Ye wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt, seemed to have attracted a much broader audience who felt inclined to let their voices be heard on social media.
Tell me again why Britney Spears needs a conservatorship and Kanye West somehow doesn’t?
— Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) October 9, 2022
The controversial anti-Semitic tweet had read, “I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death [sic] con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”
West, whose Twitter account has since been locked, certainly hasn’t been having the best start to the month. Following a string of insults aimed at the likes of Hailey Bieber and Lizzo, Adidas has since announced it has placed its Yeezy partnership “under review” — a decision that was made following the “WLM” fury.