# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/41 "2020-07-08T13:05:13Z")
Please, please please God, let him win. President Kanye West. Sounds _awesome_. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/42 "2020-07-08T13:15:40Z")
Well, he’s already missed filing deadlines in four states and would almost certainly miss them in the next seven to thirteen states (July 10th-30th) just because of the logistics of getting ballot petitions filled, filed and certified. Probably not a winning strategy. ---
**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 8, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/43 "2020-07-08T13:42:14Z")
Just when you think there aren’t enough narcissistic, attention-starved idiots with no political experience running… ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/44 "2020-07-08T14:50:14Z")
I recall reading somewhere that, if he won, we’d have two presidents in a row who were billionaires whose wife had done porn. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/45 "2020-07-08T14:53:32Z")
Y’know, you’d think the %$#@^\* press/media would have learned from the Orange Plague, and stopped doing the “hey, look at that! what a weirdo! let’s point and laugh at him!” schtick. But nooooo… ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/46 "2020-07-08T15:01:45Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > He and Trump will split the lunatic vote. > [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Kanye is mentally ill with bipolar and he admitted it. Trump would never admit any problem with his health or anything else. “Yo, Donald, I’m really happy for you, imma let you finish your term, but I’m one of the most narcissistic lunatics of all time!” ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/47 "2020-07-08T15:16:50Z")
I think that is likely to back fire and that he will siphon off Trump voters. Young men, mostly - the ones that support Trump for the “lulz”, the disrupters, the people without any political conviction that are voting for their entertainment for the next four years. I think it might hurt Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/48 "2020-07-08T15:40:14Z")
Older polling (2018/19 in response to West’s sucking up to Trump) put his favorability at just 9% among Black citizens and around 24% among white citizens. I’d assume, but who knows, that most of that 9% is among Blacks who were already in favor of Trump since Trump got around 9% of the Black vote in 2016. I’d have to wonder how many Black voters who are against Trump would instead vote for the Trump toadie. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/49 "2020-07-08T17:10:08Z")
Long may that streak continue. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/50 "2020-07-08T22:11:02Z")
The guy did an interview saying he’d run under a newly formed **Birthday Party** Pretty sure this is a marketing gimmick for some new material or merch he’s putting out. Even if he does formally run the meme will run its course quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/51 "2020-07-08T22:30:32Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > “Yo, Donald, I’m really happy for you, imma let you finish your term, but I’m one of the most narcissistic lunatics of all time!” Heh. “Hold my beer. Now you’re going to have to decide if you’re going to chug it down to spite me, even though that’s the one thing you don’t indulge in.” ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/52 "2020-07-09T18:13:26Z")
From [Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kanye-west-claims-hes-done-trump-reveals-he-had-covid-19-1302395): > As for his White House, West said the organizational model would be based on the fictitious Marvel secret country of Wakanda from _Black Panther._ “I’m gonna use the framework of Wakanda right now because it’s the best explanation of what our design group is going to feel like in the White House …That is a positive idea: You got Kanye West, one of the most powerful humans — I’m not saying the most because you got a lot of alien-level superpowers and it’s only collectively that we can set it free. Let’s get back to Wakanda … like in the movie in Wakanda when the king went to visit that lead scientist to have the shoes wrap around her shoes,” he said. Well, Okay then! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/53 "2020-07-09T18:27:33Z")
I ain’t sayin’ Ye’s a gold digger… President Yeezy. ‘This time, why not the worst?’ ---
**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 9, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/54 "2020-07-09T18:40:45Z")
Why is no-one who cares for him making sure he is taking his meds on schedule? ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/55 "2020-07-09T18:46:15Z")
This may be what he is like when he is. ---
**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 9, 2020, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/56 "2020-07-09T20:04:29Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > From [Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kanye-west-claims-hes-done-trump-reveals-he-had-covid-19-1302395): > > > As for his White House, West said the organizational model would be based on the fictitious Marvel secret country of Wakanda from _Black Panther._ “I’m gonna use the framework of Wakanda right now because it’s the best explanation of what our design group is going to feel like in the White House …That is a positive idea: You got Kanye West, one of the most powerful humans — I’m not saying the most because you got a lot of alien-level superpowers and it’s only collectively that we can set it free. Let’s get back to Wakanda … like in the movie in Wakanda when the king went to visit that lead scientist to have the shoes wrap around her shoes,” he said. > > Well, Okay then! Under Wakandan law you can become king if you fight and defeat the reigning king. Sounds good to me - sign me up! ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/57 "2020-07-09T21:12:12Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Under Wakandan law you can become king if you fight and defeat the reigning king. Sounds good to me - sign me up! No thanks. The brief celebration at my coronation would be muted by knowing a UFC fighter was waiting in the wings to kick my ass. ---
**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 9, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/58 "2020-07-09T23:29:24Z")
I’m confident I can take Kanye. ---
**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 9, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/59 "2020-07-09T23:51:55Z")
> "I’m gonna use the framework of Wakanda right now because it’s the best explanation of what our design group is going to feel like in the White House …That is a positive idea: If an implausible number of apocryphal ducks of the Armageddon were to line up and that vision came to pass, we’d look back on the days of the Trump White House with fond nostalgia. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362/60 "2020-07-10T00:23:51Z")
Kanye is doable. It’s someone like Stipe Miocic taking my head off three days later that worries me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kanye-west-signals-intent-to-run-for-presidency/914362.md?page=4)