# Kanye West signals intent to run for presidency **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 5, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362 "2020-07-05T04:45:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/1 "2020-07-05T04:45:09Z")
[Yep, you couldn’t make it up](https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/rapper-kanye-west-announces-us-presidential-bid-on-twitter-20200705-p5595o.html). Well America, the rest of the world watched you pick a deluded incompetent whose main qualification was money and appearing on TV. Now’s your chance to show us that you’ve actually learned something from this pathetic experience. Or have you actually not learned anything? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/2 "2020-07-05T04:50:23Z")
Fun year… ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/3 "2020-07-05T05:07:46Z")
So… harebrained Republican scheme to siphon off black votes? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/4 "2020-07-05T05:34:46Z")
We know Taylor Swift won’t be his VP pick. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/5 "2020-07-05T05:37:17Z")
Understandably, there have been prior threads on SD labelling El Prez as Zaphod Beeblebrox and now we have two of ‘em to split the ticket. Might Trump continue with the HHGTTG references and emulate [Hotblack Desiato](https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Hotblack_Desiato) to avoid incitement post Presidency? Who’s next? Draft Oprah or John Stewart? No mail in voting but polling by tweet? Lost.The.Plot. > [@Donald Trump is Zaphod Beeblebrox!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-is-zaphod-beeblebrox/756301): > > [Work with me](http://www.salon.com/2016/05/31/trump_wants_revenge_his_hunger_to_be_president_is_all_about_gaining_power_to_settle_petty_personal_scores/) on this. “I’ll build a hyperspace bypass, and I’ll make Earth pay for it!” “One of the major difficulties Ivana experienced in her relationship with Donald was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn’t be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on, and really bei… ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/6 "2020-07-05T06:42:18Z")
He and Trump will split the lunatic vote. Elon Musk says he supports Kanye. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/7 "2020-07-05T07:32:35Z")
Exactly which Trump voters are going to defect to Kanye? ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/8 "2020-07-05T07:38:29Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Exactly which Trump voters are going to defect to Kanye? Indeed. I would be more worried about him taking the Black and youth votes, both of which are normally heavily Democrat. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/9 "2020-07-05T07:51:54Z")
Never go full retard ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/10 "2020-07-05T10:45:49Z")
Despite what Republicans think, black people are not this stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/11 "2020-07-05T11:27:02Z")
My first thought as well. And there is a very stable genius somewhere that thinks this is brilliant, because that way he can get the majority in the Electoral College with just 35% of the popular vote. If this works that way I am afraid the USA will have to nuke itself, this will then be the only way to defeat its worst enemy: themselves. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/12 "2020-07-05T14:18:17Z")
The lunatics are taking over the asylum. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/13 "2020-07-05T14:46:11Z")
Maybe it’s a whoosh? > [@](#): > > If West does actually want to run for president, he would have to do so as an independent. And even that would take him acquiring the necessary signatures to get on November’s ballot. Bad news for voters in Indiana, Maine, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina and Texas – the deadline has already passed to file and you won’t get a chance to vote for West. (Unless you want to write him in.) [https://www.yahoo.com/gma/kanye-west-announces-hes-running-president-021700559.html](https://www.yahoo.com/gma/kanye-west-announces-hes-running-president-021700559.html) ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/14 "2020-07-05T15:43:38Z")
I think you are misinterpreting. It would be an attempt by Trump’s crony Kanye to siphon off black votes from the Democrats. Trump’s votes would remain essentially unchanged. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/15 "2020-07-05T16:31:28Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > It would be an attempt by Trump’s crony Kanye to siphon off black votes from the Democrats. That’s what I’m worried about. Not _very_ worried, but still… > [@DCnDC](#): > > Despite what Republicans think, black people are not this stupid. On the other hand, black people are people, and people can be pretty stupid sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/16 "2020-07-05T17:43:51Z")
A troubled man for troubled times. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/17 "2020-07-05T18:19:43Z")
This following his joining a BLM protest and donating to money to the families of George Floyd , Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, is interesting. Maybe he got disgusted with Trump. Maybe he _is_ trying to help Trump by siphoning off a few Black votes and his donations were to prep for this. (Yeah every demographic has its stupid people and in a close state a few votes could matter.) Or maybe he is just a deluded disturbed individual with no rational process involved at all. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/18 "2020-07-05T18:40:03Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Maybe he got disgusted with Trump. Maybe he _is_ trying to help Trump by siphoning off a few Black votes and his donations were to prep for this. (Yeah every demographic has its stupid people and in a close state a few votes could matter.) Or maybe he is just a deluded disturbed individual with no rational process involved at all. Your second and third options aren’t mutually exclusive. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/19 "2020-07-05T21:02:45Z")
It ain’t easy to get on the ballot in many states and the Greens didn’t like Jesse Ventura trying to hijack their nomination so it’s not likely he can slip in the back door. I think he’s just shooting off his mouth and wanting attention. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/20 "2020-07-05T21:05:14Z")
I think he has got how PR works down pretty damn well. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362.md?page=2)