Kanye West Says He No Longer Supports Donald Trump While Discussing His Plans To Run For President In New Interview
Last week, Kanye West announced that he is running for President in the upcoming 2020 elections. At the time, the rapper and fashion designer did not provide any further details on his plans. However, he’s now speaking out to share them.
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In a new piece, which Forbes Magazine described as “four rambling hours of interviews,” Kanye says that he’s running for President not as a Republican or Democrat but under a new banner—the Birthday Party, saying “because when we win, it’s everybody’s birthday.” However, he admitted that “I would run as a Republican if Trump wasn’t there,” he said. “I will run as an independent if Trump is there.” The 43-year-old also shared that he’s been receiving guidance from his good friend Elon Musk and already chose his running mate: Michelle Tidball, an obscure preacher from Wyoming.
Now, as many of us know, Kanye has still not filed anything to officially declare his candidacy outside of his recent tweet. But, Kanye still believes he has a good chance at winning: “I’m speaking with experts, I’m going to speak with Jared Kushner, the White House, with Biden.” During the conversation, Kanye briefly spoke President Donald Trump, revealing that he no longer supports him: “I am taking the red hat off, with this interview.” Kanye didn’t go into much detail about his former good friend but says, “It looks like one big mess to me,” while speaking about him visiting the bunker in the White House amid protests. “I don’t like that I caught wind that he hid in the bunker.”
However, rather than dissing Trump, Kanye did share why he initially supported him: “One of the main reasons I wore the red hat as a protest to the segregation of votes in the Black community. Also, other than the fact that I like Trump hotels and the saxophones in the lobby.” He added, “Trump is the closest president we’ve had in years to allowing God to still be part of the conversation.”
Kanye then shared what made decide it was time to run for President:
“It’s when I was being offered the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Awards at MTV. I remember being at my mom’s house, my mother-in-law, because my house was being worked on, she calls me ‘son’ and I call her ‘mom,’ I was in the shower thinking, I write raps in the shower. It hit me to say, ‘you’re going to run for president’ and I started laughing hysterically, I was like this is the best, I’m going to go out there and they’re going to think I’m going to do these songs and do this for entertainment, how rigged awards shows are, and then say I’m president. And I just laughed in the shower, I don’t know for how long, but that’s the moment it hit me.”
During the interview with the Magazine, Kanye talked about many other things including his foreign policy, which he hasn’t developed yet — his take on abortion and also talked about the coronavirus which he claims he contracted in late February. Check out his full interview here.
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