Kanye West has deleted a series of tweets he sent last year defending his decision to meet with US President Donald Trump.
The rapper, who met with the then-incoming president last December, appears to have deleted tweets he sent explaining the reason for his visit and expressing optimism about a Trump presidency on Monday.
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Rapper Kanye West and President-elect Donald Trump met at Trump Tower on where the two 'discussed life.'
According to TMZ, the tweets were deleted as a reaction to Trump's controversial "Muslim Ban" immigration measures.
West met with Trump on December 13, and was photographed entering Manhattan's Trump Tower and speaking reporters gathered in the building's reception with Trump afterwards.
"We've been friends for a long time," Trump told reporters, saying they had discussed "life" and that West was a "good man".
But West went onto greater detail about their meeting on Twitter, in a series of now deleted tweets, writing that he "wanted to meet with Trump today to discuss multicultural issues".
"These issues included bullying, supporting teachers, modernising curriculums, and violence in Chicago," he wrote.
"I feel it is important to have a direct line of communication with our future President if we truly want change."
The meeting came after West declared he "would have voted Trump" if he had voted in the election at a concert in San Jose in November.
He was hospitalised for "exhaustion" later that month.
West was heavily criticised by his peers for his decision to engage with Trump, whose political campaign was largely shunned by Hollywood in favour of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
Singer John Legend expressed "disappointment" that West, who famously declared then-president George W. Bush did not "care about black people" during a Hurricane Katrina telethon in 2005, would meet with Trump.
"I don't think it's impossible to talk to [Donald Trump] about issues, but I won't be used as a publicity stunt. I think Kanye was a publicity stunt," Legend told Clique.tv.
"I'm pretty disappointed with Kanye that he says he would have voted for Trump. I think the things he's promised to do have been very concerning for a lot of people, and for Kanye to support that message is very disappointing."
If the Twitter feed purge is, as TMZ reports, indicative of a shift in political allegiance, it would bring West in line with his wife, reality television star Kim Kardashian West, who opposed Trump during the 2016 presidential election, instead attending fundraisers for Clinton.