Two interesting things here.
1. Kanye West gets at one reason for the non-traditional support of Trump. It's less about the issues than the way that Trump's style and messaging challenges the artificial and hypocritical default politics.
West has been saying that his love of Trump isn’t about Trump’s politics so much as the sheer unlikeliness of his victory, and he makes that point again during the interview: “There were people who said Trump would never win. I’m talking about the it-will-never-happens of the world, people in high school told you things would never happen.”
"Getting out, learning how to not be highly medicated and, you know, just standing up saying I know I could lose a lot of things, but just standing up and saying what you feel, and not even doing a lot of research on it. Having a political opinion that’s overly informed, it’s like knowing how to dress, as opposed to being a child — “I like this.” I hear Trump talk and I’m like, I like the way it sounds, knowing that there’s people who like me that don’t like the way it sounds."
In other words, it's less about the issues, than about an inspirational momentum and a challenge to the establishment, and the form of direct communication that everyone in the establishment hates.
2. And Kanye is far from alone
West also says that other celebrities feel the way that he does about Trump but that they’re scared to say it publicly: “I felt that I knew people who voted for Trump that were celebrities that were scared to say that they liked him. But they told me, and I liked him, and I’m not scared to say what I like. Let me come over here and get in this fight with you.”
Again, not too surprising. The fame industry has few taboos. Really only one. The GOP. And yet Trump's counterculture is likely to resonate there.