In a video on Twitter, Kanye West (45) announces that he wants to run for the 2024 presidential election in the United States. The video was posted to PatriotTakes’ Twitter account. “So you run?” the cameraman asks him. “Yes,” West replies with a laugh. The video became public after the rapper’s account was restored by Twitter boss Elon Musk (51). “Test, I’m testing if my Twitter account is unlocked again,” he wrote to his nearly 32 million followers.
A déjà vu for his fans: Kanye West had already run for president in 2020 – and then failed miserably. 60,000 of the 168 million Americans eligible to vote at the time voted for him.
Far-right provocateur hired for campaign
In the video, the rapper made a second announcement. For his candidacy, he hired the far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos (38). “This is Milo working on the campaign,” tweeted West, who calls himself Ye. Yiannopoulos was also banned from Twitter, but unlike Ye, he is still nowhere to be seen, the NY Post reports.
The British journalist, entrepreneur and blogger Yiannopoulos is best known as a former editor of the American portal Breitbart and as a supporter of the election campaign of Donald Trump (76). He has largely disappeared from the public eye since 2017 after posting comments that appear to advocate pedophilia. He would say sex between 13-year-olds and older men can be “life-affirming.” In the summer, Yiannopoulos announced that he would do an unpaid internship with right-wing MP Marjorie Taylor Greene (48). Greene mainly represents far-right views and conspiracy theories. (Hi)