WEST’S WORLD ORDER
KANYE West has revealed more details about his possible US presidential run.
The billionaire rapper turned business tycoon told Forbes magazine he would be “taking the red hat off” – switching his support from Donald Trump and starting his own political party.
West said if Mr Trump wasn’t running, he would have run as a Republican.
“I will run as an independent if Trump is there,” he said. He revealed his political party would be called the Birthday Party, “because when we win, it’s everybody’s birthday”.
West said he would run on an anti-abortion and anti-coronavirus vaccine policy platform.
He named his top two advisers – wife Kim Kardashian and billionaire Tesla cars entrepreneur Elon Musk, whom West said would be “the head of our space program”.
West, who conceded that he had never voted before, has missed the deadline to appear on the ballot in several states, but claimed he could be added because of the virus emergency.
He said he was “going to speak with the White House, and with (Democratic candidate Joe) Biden” to make his bid happen.
But he did not hold back on Mr Biden’s presidential bid, stating: “Obama’s special. Trump’s special. We say Kanye West is special. America needs special people that lead. Bill Clinton? Special. Joe Biden’s not special.”
West has been an enthusiastic supporter of Mr Trump, even meeting him in the Oval Office during which he donned a red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap.
“I wore the red hat as a protest to the segregation of votes in the black community,” West said. “Other than the fact that I like Trump hotels and the saxophones in the lobby.”
West did not say specifically why he had stopped supporting
Mr Trump. “It looks like one big mess to me,” he said.
“I don’t like that I caught wind that he hid in the bunker (during violent unrest in Washington last month).”
But he did add: “Trump is the closest president we’ve had in years to allowing God to still be part of the conversation.”
West angrily denied that he would split the black vote if he ran. “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,” he said.
West, who claimed he may have contracted coronavirus in February, said he was not in favour of vaccines for it.
“It’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralysed … So when they say the way we’re going to fix COVID is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious. That’s the mark of the beast.
“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.”
West said that coronavirus was “all about God. We need to stop doing things that make God mad”.