I’m focused on protecting America, first, with our great military. And I just laughed in the shower, I don’t know for how long, but that’s the moment it hit me.” 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 going to run for president. 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’s when I was being offered the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Awards at MTV. And the sad thing is that, the saddest thing is that we all won’t make it to heaven, that there’ll be some of us that do not make it. I'm sorry when I say they, the humans that have the Devil inside them. They want to put chips inside of us, they want to do all kinds of things, to make it where we can’t cross the gates of heaven. So when they say the way we’re going to fix Covid is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious. “It’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralyzed. We need to stop doing things that make God mad.” If I win in 2024 then that was God’s appointment.” If I win in 2020 then it was God’s appointment. “Let’s see if the appointing is at 2020 or if it’s 2024-because God appoints the president. Threatening them to the point where this white man can tell a Black man if you don’t vote for me, you’re not Black.” And that’s what the Democrats are doing, emotionally, to my people. I was threatened as a Black man into the Democratic party. I was threatened as a celebrity into being in one party. I was threatened into being in one party. I was told that if I voted on Trump my music career would be over. The reason why this is the first day I registered to vote is because I was scared. And Democrats used to tell me, the same Democrats have threatened me. All of that information is being charged up on social media platforms by Democrats. “That is a form of racism and white supremacy and white control to say that all Black people need to be Democrat and to assume that me running is me splitting the vote. last night were not immediately returned.) “One time I talked to Jared Kushner, who was saying, ‘We don’t have Black leaders, we just have hustlers.’ Why? Because they killed all the Black leaders.” (Requests for comment from the White House and the Kushner Cos. ON DISCUSSIONS ON RACE WITH THE WHITE HOUSE

Also, other than the fact that I like Trump hotels and the saxophones in the lobby.” “One of the main reasons I wore the red hat as a protest to the segregation of votes in the Black community. “Trump is the closest president we’ve had in years to allowing God to still be part of the conversation.” I will run as an independent if Trump is there.” “I would run as a Republican if Trump wasn’t there. President Donald Trump in the Oval office of the White House on Octoin Washington, DC. Rapper Kanye West speaks during a meeting with U.S. “I don’t like that I caught wind that he hid in the bunker.” West also says that he contracted the coronavirus in late February, though he maintains that had nothing to do with his thoughts on running this year. “It looks like one big mess to me,” he says. (“I give my album away for free.”) A few weeks after he ended two separate text chains with me with the message “Trump 2020” and a fist raised high, he insists he’s lost confidence in the president. Calling from his ranch near Cody, Wyoming, where he says that he registered to vote for the first time on Monday, West denies it is a publicity stunt for his upcoming album. If it all sounds like a parody, or a particularly surreal episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, West doesn’t seem to be in on it. And why the Birthday Party? “Because when we win, it’s everybody’s birthday.” The campaign slogan: “YES!” His running mate? Michelle Tidball, an obscure preacher from Wyoming. His advisors right now, he says, are the two people who notably endorsed him on the Fourth: his wife, Kim Kardashian-West, and Elon Musk, of whom he says, “We’ve been talking about this for years.” (Adds West: “I proposed to him to be the head of our space program.”)Īn hour into the interview, the hedging was done: He says he definitely plans to run in 2020, versus his original plan in 2024. He has no campaign apparatus of any kind. “I’m speaking with experts, I’m going to speak with Jared Kushner, the White House, with Biden,” says West.

At that point, he says, he’d miss the filing deadline for most states, though he believes an argument could be made to get onto any ballots he’s missed, citing coronavirus issues. For much of the phone calls, his core message, strategically, was that he has 30 days to make a final decision about running for president.

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