Kanye West Announces 2024 Presidential Campaign, Asks Trump To Be His V.P.

Kanye West revealed that he asked former President Donald Trump to be his vice presidential running mate in the 2024 election, and spent the next day releasing bizarre campaign videos.

The rapper initially tweeted Tuesday that he visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate for the first time. He asked his followers with a poll “what you guys think his response was when I asked him to be my running mate in 2024?” He gave the punny option: “That’s very Ye” or “That’s very Nay.” Over half his fans voted the affirmative.

On Thursday, West posted the first of several videos with the hashtag #YE24. The video, which answered the question he posed to his followers, shows the performer talking to a colleague at the Yeezy Headquarters in Los Angeles.

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“I think the thing that Trump was most perturbed about [was] me asking him to be my vice president,” he said. “I think that was like, lower on the list of things that caught him off guard. It was the fact that I walked in with intelligence.” 

He goes on to say that Trump insulted West’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, although the specifics are censored. 

“I was thinking like, that’s the mother of my children,” he said. 

West continued to diss the former president, making it clear that they will not be running mates going forward. 

The following videos included montages of news clips talking about the celebrity’s latest scandals. One starts off with the date November 16 and text that reads, “Adidas has just frozen all of Ye’s bank accounts and sued him for $275 million in advertising fees.”

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Another plays a clip of Fox News’s Tucker Carlson discussing the “White Lives Matter” shirt that marked the start of his recent controversial downfall.

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1595968445366951937?s=20&t=7ygx4L03Xl4EQCUoQ_EDGw

West was reinstated on Twitter just days before the tweet storm of promotional videos, after his account was suspended for antisemitic tweets that violated the company’s policy.