Extreme far-right influencer Nick Fuentes claimed on streaming platform Rumble that Kanye West once wanted to change his name to a swastika.
Fuentes says he was staying at the Marriott in Santa Monica working on his laptop and that Ye called him.
“He told me he wanted to change his name to a swastika. Not making this up. So for anybody that says I made him a Nazi. That’s not true. He called me up out of the blue one afternoon and he’s like, so what if I changed my name to a swastika? And he starts laughing and I start dying? I’m like, that’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard. He’s like, right, right,” Fuentes claimed.
He says West thought the move would be funny “because then when they say my name, they’ll have to put a swastika on the chevron on TV. I it’s like, dude, I’m like. And I told them, I’m like. I’m like, I wouldn’t they just put the letters though. He goes, no, no, no. He goes, no, I’m not changing my name to the word. He goes the he said, he corrected me. He said his name wouldn’t be spelled ‘S.W.A.’ he says no, his name would be spelled swastika. It would be the symbol.”
West legally changed his name to Ye in 2021. The following year, he was banned from social media platforms for several anti-Semitic rants.
