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With one subtle move, Kanye West has made his feelings about Donald Trump clear.

Almost two months on from meeting with the then President-elect, rapper and designer Kanye West has deleted all tweets supporting Donald Trump from his Twitter account.

According to TMZ, the tweets were deleted following Trump’s immigration ban.

39-year-old West first declared his support for Trump at a concert in November, telling the audience that he didn’t vote in the recent US election, but that he would have backed Trump if he had. A month later, West met with Trump at his New York home in Trump Tower, speaking to the 70-year-old real estate mogul for around 15 minutes.

Following the highly-publicised chat, West shared four tweets with his 27 million Twitter followers, beginning "I wanted to meet with Trump today to discuss multicultural issues."

The next tweet read, "These issues included bullying, supporting teachers, modernizing curriculums, and violence in Chicago."

West's third tweet read, "I feel it is important to have a direct line of communication with our future President if we truly want change."

Finally, The Life of Pablo rapper shared a photo showing a signed copy of Trump's Time Magazine cover, with a message that read, "TO KANYE, YOU ARE A GREAT FRIEND, THANKS."

Now, though, all traces of the meeting are gone, and it appears the direct line has closed.

West's decision to delete the tweets come days after Trump introduced an immigration ban on anyone trying to enter the United States from Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, Yemen and Libya - all of which are predominantly Muslim nations.

The ban has since been overturned and has become one of the most politically divisive Presidential orders in recent history.

Following the ban, West's wife, Kim Kardashian West, tweeted a table showing the various ways Americans were killed annually, with acts of terrorism being the lowest. Alongside the image, Kardashian West wrote just one word: "statistics."

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