Trevor Noah warns about Kanye situation: 'If Kim cannot escape this what chance do normal women have?'

As the Kim Kardashian-Ye-Pete Davidson feud continues on, and with seemingly new drama fodder for the tabloids hitting the airwaves every hour, it can be easy to treat this situation as entertainment, and that’s something that concerns The Daily Show host Trevor Noah (Mon-Thurs at 11pET on CTV Comedy).

During his opening monologue for Tuesday night’s show, the South African comedian used the messy divorce between the SKIMS entrepreneur and the artist formerly known as Kanye West to draw an analogy to the struggle thousands of women face when they try to leave an abusive relationship - namely, that the harassment gets worse.

Drawing on his own upbringing in an abusive household where he says authorities doubted his mother about the abuse she was experiencing, culminating in her being shot in the head by Trevor’s step-father, Trevor reminded us that while it’s not certain Ye will turn violent, there are warning signs that we cannot ignore. 

“I’m not saying Kanye will,” he opined. “But as a society, we have to ask ourselves questions.”

“Do we wish to stand by and watch a car crash when we thought we saw it coming?” he continued. “Or do we at least want to say, ‘Slow down, let’s all put our hazards on, because there’s a storm coming and s**t might go down.'”

“If Kim Kardashian cannot escape this, then what chance do normal women have?”

During his almost 10-minute monologue to camera, Trevor said he questioned whether Ye’s claymation music video depicting Kim’s boyfriend, SNL star Pete Davidson being decapitated should be considered “art” because while art can be therapy, “therapy can be therapy.” He also reminded his viewers that while we may hold varying opinions about Kim Kardashian as a public figure and her role in popular culture, “Two things can be true. Kim likes publicity. Kim is also being harassed.”

"What we're seeing is one of the most powerful, one of the richest women in the world unable to get her ex to stop texting her, to stop chasing after her, to stop harassing her. Just think about that for a moment." 

“The point is Kim Kardashian and countless other women, they find themselves in a terrible position,” he continued. “Because asking Kanye to stop clearly isn’t helping but at the same time he hasn’t broken any laws, you know, so can she get him arrested? No, I don’t think so. Would she even want to? I mean, she spends half her time helping Black people come out of jail so now she can’t throw Kanye West in. That’s a bit of a paradox. But still, she’s being harassed.”

Trevor also touched on the leaked text exchange between Pete Davidson and Ye, where Kanye says Pete both mocked the rapper’s mental health and also offered to speak with him and encouraged him to seek help. While to most viewers, Trevor’s monologue seems even-handed and fair-balanced, the “Jesus Walk” rapper responded quickly the next morning.

Taking to his official lG, Ye posted a screencap of the Google results that pop up for Trevor Noah, and captioned the screengrab with a racial slur embedded into the lyrics of “Kumbaya, My Lord.”

Elsewhere in Ye’s IG, he also takes aim at comedian D.L. Hughley, who commented in an interview that the “Stronger” rapper is stalking Kim Kardashian. In other posts, Ye continues to slam Davidson, accusing the comedian of one day getting his kids hooked on drugs and also accusing the “The King of Staten Island” of being inappropriate around children. 

The “Donda” rapper is famous for deleting his Instagram posts after they do the intended damage and garner media attention, and many of the posts have already been removed. 

For Kim's part, the last public statement the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star made about Ye’s outbursts was posted to her Instagram Stories. She wrote, “Divorce is difficult enough on our children and Kanye's obsession with trying to control and manipulate our situation so negatively and publicly is only causing further pain for all. From the beginning I have wanted nothing but a healthy and supportive co-parenting relationship because it is what is best for our children and it saddens me that Kanye continues to make it impossible every step of the way."

On social media, she recently left a comment on one of Ye’s posts, telling him to “stop with this narrative.”

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