Kanye West says he’s running for presidency in 2020

Donald Trump must have inspired a lot of people in the entertainment industry, just like Ronald Regan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, for Kanye West, Kim Kardashian’s husband, has found himself worthy to run for American presidency come 2020.

West made this declaration at the VMA award that took place last night.
Kanye West received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Video Music Awards, and he closed his acceptance speech by announcing he’s running for president in 2020. Yes, really!

The segment started with a bang when West was handed his Moonman by an unexpected contemporary: reigning pop queen / one-time Kanye “victim” Taylor Swift. After a narrated montage containing clips from every part of West’s career, Swift came up on stage and talked about her West fandom and his influence on her career. She wrapped her speech by quoting West’s infamous 2009 VMA interruption — you know, the one where he rushed the stage and grabbed the mic from Swift to defend Beyoncé’s work — to proclaim that he’s had “one of the greatest careers of all time.”

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West then spoke at length about being changed by fatherhood, defending artistry, the hypocrisy of media, the ridiculousness of award shows, and smoking a little something before getting up on stage “to take the edge off.”
West also acknowledged the backlash he has felt throughout his outspoken career: “The contradiction is, I do fight for artists, but in that fight I somehow was disrespectful to artists. I didn’t know how to say the right thing, the perfect thing,” adding, “Sometimes I feel like I died for the artists’ opinion, for the artist to be able to have an opinion after they were successful.”

He made the bold declaration at the end of an epic acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award.

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