Thought Experiment: What if Kanye really runs for the U.S Presidency in 2020

At the August 30th, 2015 VMAs, Kanye, admitting that he’d been smoking some announced his decision to run for the United States Presidency in 2020. There’s no way to summarise his announcement without taking away from the Kanye-charm. So here goes:

“Y’all might be thinking right now, ‘I wonder: Did he smoke something before he came out here?’ The answer is yes, I rolled up a little something. I knocked the edge off. [long pause] I don’t know what’s gonna happen tonight. I don’t know what’s gonna happen tomorrow, bro. But all I can say to my artists, my fellow artists: Just worry how you feel at the time, man. Just worry about how you feel and don’t never—know what I’m saying? I’m confident. I believe in myself. We are millennials, bro. This is a new—this is a new mentality. We’re not gonna control our kids with brands. We’re not gonna teach low self-esteem and hate to our kids. We’re gonna teach our kids that they can be something. We’re gonna teach our kids they can stand up for themselves. We’re gonna teach our kids to believe in themselves. If my grandfather were here right now, he would not let me back down. I don’t know what I’m gonna lose after this. It don’t matter, though, because it ain’t about me. It’s about ideas, bro. New ideas, people with ideas, people who believe in truth.

And yes, as you probably could have guessed by this moment, I have decided in 2020 to run for president.”

This is a man who’s said and done a lot of crazy things and it would have been easy to dismiss this outburst as one of his crazies. The only thing was: the United States of America (and to be real, the world) already had the somewhat crazy billionaire, Donald J. Trump running for the same Oval Office at the time.

Asked about Kanye’s declaration afterwards, Josh Earnest, the White House publicity secretary said in good humour: “we look forward to seeing what slogan he chooses to embroider on his campaign hat.” It was easy to tell no one at the white house took him seriously. Even Kanye didn’t appear to have taken his own words seriously days after when he was asked what he’d do if he became President and he responded along the lines of giving out free Yeezies to everyone. LOL!
LOL? Fast forward November/December 2016, Trump is President-Elect; the world is all #antiestablishment; to be sure, Americans are recounting their votes; Kanye is hospitalised on account of mental exhaustion (which is a real thing, we assure you) and then he’s released. As if all that had happened was not crazy enough, this happened just last week:
Singer Kanye West and President-elect Donald Trump talk at Trump Tower after meetings on December 13, 2016 in New York. / AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY
Singer Kanye West and President-elect Donald Trump talk at Trump Tower after meetings on December 13, 2016 in New York. / AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY

This was Kanye’s first appearance after his hospitalisation. Let that sink.

Now is as good a time as any to take him seriously about his intentions to run for Presidency in 2020. We’d have gone ahead to presume their meeting was about offsetting Kanye’s enormous debts, but the world is mad and from all indications, will still be by 2020. So here are a few things to get ready for as Kanye prepares himself for Presidency in the next four years:

Forget about all political ideologies, parties and affiliations. 

No Democrats, no Republicans. If we are lucky, no PDP nor APC either. Just Yeezies being led by Yeezus.

We didn’t even have to think too hard about this one. Kanye himself already said it: “When I talk about the idea of being president, I‘m not saying I have any political views, I just have a view on humanity, on people, on the truth.

So it’s all back to the trial and error phase because President Kanye is not all about those rules set in stone. He’s just going try to do anything he can with his time “to somehow make a difference while” he’s alive.

And to be honest, after the Democratic Party’s failed attempt at enthroning a cool 68-year-old Aunty Hillary as President, the best bet will be an actually cool President-unpredictable-but relatable Kanye West.

Ever wondered what the ideal education for school kids should be like in this internet meme era? Kanye has the answers.

Your sons/daughters are finally going to be enrolling for Social Media Engineering soon at Yale. Kanye has always been about moving away from the traditional school curricula to what he calls “education post-the internet”. So we can be sure that at every level of education, our kids can start to learn the about digital influencing alongside civics because: focus.has.changed.

Racism

The silent majority spoke up in America this year, ensuring Trump got voted into the oval office. One of their demands – that the world needs to see beyond anti-racist political correctness but whether that message is right or not is yet to be seen as they were passed across in the most racist way possible during the Trump campaign.

With Yeezy 2020, that message will be revisited; at which time Kanye will try to make the world understand the reason why Americans need to on from always talking about racism -especially the ones most affected by it.

To cut the long story short, in order to get with the new times, we’ll return to the 50’s. Because: President West.

Social welfare

On this, the most important thing to President Kanye of course is the aesthetics of things.

So rather than focus on getting people off the streets, we’ll be ensuring that every homeless person that has made the street his home can figure out how to match his mat to his hat or pick the best dumpster that matches his personality traits. Again, because:

 

 

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