Rapper Kanye West, who has legally modified his identify to Ye, has introduced that he intends to run for U.S. president in 2024 in a sequence of marketing campaign movies launched late Thursday night.
The transfer follows a beforehand failed presidential bid in 2020 that noticed him garner a measly 60,000 votes.
Within the first of his marketing campaign movies, Ye claims he requested former president Donald Trump to be his working mate. Trump introduced final week that he’s additionally working for president in 2024 after a failed re-election marketing campaign in 2020.
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Ye even polled his Twitter followers, asking what they thought Trump’s response was when the rapper requested him to be his vice-president.
Within the video following the ballot, titled “Mar-A-Lago Debrief,” Ye claims that his supply left the previous president “perturbed.”
“Trump began principally screaming at me on the desk, telling me I’m going to lose,” Ye mentioned within the video.
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“I imply, has that ever labored for anybody in historical past?” Ye added. “I’m like, maintain on, maintain on, maintain on, Trump, you’re speaking to Ye.”
Ye additionally mentioned within the video that he believed Trump ought to have freed the individuals who have been detained for collaborating within the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on the U.S. Capitol.
Ye additionally tweeted a textual content alternate that seems to point out that alt-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulous and white nationalist Nick Fuentes have joined his marketing campaign workforce. Every of their contacts in Ye’s cellphone has YE24 added, the tagline that the rapper has been utilizing in all of his marketing campaign movies.
Ye’s presidential bid comes on the heels of a slew of damaging scandals across the outspoken rapper and dressmaker.
He provoked outrage throughout Paris Style Week by carrying a T-shirt with the slogan “White Lives Matter,” a phrase that has been utilized by white supremacists to low cost the Black Lives Matter motion.
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Whereas defending himself on-line, Ye made antisemitic feedback that led to him being suspended from Twitter and Instagram.
Ye claimed that his critics have been being paid by a secret cabal of Jewish folks, a standard antisemitic trope. The Guardian reported that, at one level, he mentioned he would go “dying con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”
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The outrage that adopted led Ye’s expertise company to drop him, and a number of style corporations, together with Adidas, Balenciaga and Hole, minimize ties with him. The rapper later mentioned that he misplaced “two billion {dollars} in in the future” because of the financial blowback.
A day earlier than saying his presidential bid, Adidas acknowledged that it was launching an investigation into Ye over allegations of harassment towards workers who labored on his Yeezy shoe line. Adidas workers advised Rolling Stone journal that Ye used “thoughts video games” to create a “poisonous atmosphere” within the firm.
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Ye is the second particular person to announce their 2024 presidential bid, behind Trump. It appears he desires to get an early begin this election after saying his 2020 marketing campaign too late to seem on the poll in a number of states.
In the long run, Ye was solely listed as a presidential candidate in 12 states in 2020 and held just one rally — wherein he broke down whereas discussing abortion and his then-wife Kim Kardashian.
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