Twitter can’t get over ASAP Rocky being name-dropped during impeachment hearings

During Wednesday’s impeachment inquiry hearing of President Donald Trump, as government dignitaries considered testimony, the most unlikely topic came up — more than once  — New York rapper ASAP Rocky.

David Holmes, a U.S. Embassy official in Kyiv, Ukraine, testified extensively about a phone conversation he overheard between Trump and Gordon Sondland, a hotelier and U.S. ambassador.

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Holmes testified that during a July lunch with Sondland at a Kyiv restaurant, he overheard Sondland and  the president’s conversation about, among other things, ASAP Rocky. Sondland reportedly had the phone pulled away from his ear because Trump was speaking so loudly. ASAP Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was imprisoned in a Swedish jail on assault charges.

Sondland, according to a New York Times report of Wednesday’s hearings, told the president the rapper “should have pled guilty,” according to Holmes’ written statement.

Sondland then advised Trump he should “let him get sentenced, play the racism card, give him a ticker tape when he comes home,” Holmes testified.

The fact the discussion about the rapper was a key point in Wednesday’s hearing has garnered mixed reaction from Twitter, with some simply stunned the rapper was a significant part of Wednesday’s hearing.

ASAP Rocky coming up more than once, again when Sondland testified, also became a running joke Wednesday on Twitter.

Others were not entertained by the testimony. Instead, they found the fact that Sondland’s claim that his conversation with Trump was “primarily” about ASAP Rocky suspicious.

See more of Wednesday’s testimony during the impeachment inquiry hearing here: