Kanye West’s media trainer has quit after just three days of working with the singer, it has been revealed.

The singer lost his cool with Today’s Matt Lauer during an interview, which aired on Thursday, when producers cued a clip of his confrontation with Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMAs.

He has since pulled out of a Today show Thanksgiving performance because of the interview, which he has branded ‘very brutal’.

Media adviser Susie Arons, an executive vice president at Rubenstein Communications, agreed to help Kanye with his interview with Lauer, where he was to address comments he made about President George W Bush being a racist.

Arons was summoned to the studios to help Kanye do some last-minute preparation for the interview, the New York Post reports.

A source at the studios told the paper: “West shut himself in a dressing room with Susie, and could be heard rehearsing possible questions and answers.

‘But the interview began, and it was as though he had crammed for a test and then his mind went blank.”

Apparently the prepping didn’t work, because the interview turned out to be a complete mess.

At one point, the clip started to roll showing Kanye’s notorious encounter with Swift while he was speaking, something he took offence at.

He said, “Yo, how am I supposed to talk if you’re going to run the thing in the middle while I’m talking?”

“I didn’t need you guys to show me the tape in order to prompt my emotions or whatever,” he said to Lauer.

“I don’t need all the jazz… Can we be quiet for a second?”

Kanye later took to his Twitter to vent his feelings about the interview.

— Daily Mail