Taylor Swift shares her diary from the 2009 MTV VMAs Kanye West incident

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President Obama famously called West a "jackass" for his interruption of Swift's VMAs speech, which took place on Sept. 18, 2009. Swift shared her diaries as part of her new album, Love. In it, she writes of that date: “Let's just say, if you had told me Kanye West would have been the number one focus of my week, the media, and my part in the VMA's I would've looked at you crossed eyed.” ALSO: MTV producers look back at the Taylor Swift-Kanye West incident.