In Kanye West's New Forbes Interview, The Delusion Really Jumped Out
By: The Executive Tea Staff
On the Fourth of July, we were all minding our business and making the best out of the long weekend in quarantine — until Kanye West just had to get on Twitter and declare he’s running for President in 2020. Although Ye has missed nearly every deadline he would have to make to run for President and has yet to fill out any paperwork formalizing his run - he’s still determined to run as an Independent, chile.
In a new interview with Forbes, Kanye takes us down a wild ride of delusion, bizarre claims, and paints a picture of a West presidency that would be likened to Wakanda. While the rest of the country may not be taking him seriously, he has 2 supporters so far - his wife culture-vulture Kardashian and his alleged running mate Michelle Tidball, an obscure preacher from Wyoming.
When asked about what his campaign policy would be, Kanye responded:
I don’t know if I would use the word policy for the way I would approach things. I don’t have a policy when I went to Nike and designed Yeezy and went to Louis and designed a Louis Vuitton at the same time. It wasn’t a policy, it was a design. We need to innovate the design to be able to free the mind at this time.
— Kanye West
Checkmark, no campaign policy - got it. Instead of policy, West said he would employ a “Wakanda management model”. I know this sounds like a parody, but it’s not y’all. Here are his words to Forbes:
A lot of Africans do not like the movie [Black Panther] and representation of themselves in…Wakanda. But 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. Just the amount of innovation that can happen, the amount of innovation in medicine—like big pharma—we are going to work, innovate, together. This is not going to be some Nipsey Hussle being murdered, they’re doing a documentary, we have so many soldiers that die for our freedom, our freedom of information, that there is a cure for AIDS out there, there is going to be a mix of big pharma and holistic.
When asked about his previous support for Trump - Kanye said he’s “taking the MAGA hat off this time”, and said he’s been disappointed by his response to the pandemic “It looks like one big mess to me,” he says. “I don’t like that I caught wind that he hid in the bunker.” However, he still seemed to have lots of love for his friend. “Trump is the closest president we’ve had in years to allowing God to still be part of the conversation,” he stated. And why he rocked the MAGA hat in the first place?
One of the main reasons I wore the red hat as a protest to the segregation of votes in the Black community. Also, other than the fact that I like Trump hotels and the saxophones in the lobby.
— Kanye West
Kanye also spoke to the concerns folks have voiced about him potentially splitting the ballot between Trump and Biden — potentially leading to a devastating 2020 loss: “I’m not denying it, I just told you. To say that the Black vote is Democratic is a form of racism and white supremacy.”
Kanye also shared his views on abortion and vaccine, deferring to the Bible as his reason to not support the two.
Kanye on abortion:
“I am pro-life because I’m following the word of the bible.” He also said he believes that Planned Parenthood - an organization that gives women access to affordable reproductive health care - “has been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work”
Kanye on vaccines:
“It’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralyzed… So when they say the way we’re going to fix Covid is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious. That’s the mark of the beast. They want to put chips inside of us, they want to do all kinds of things, to make it where we can’t cross the gates of heaven. I'm sorry when I say they, the humans that have the Devil inside them. And the sad thing is that, the saddest thing is that we all won’t make it to heaven, that there’ll be some of us that do not make it. Next question.”
I don’t know what Kanye has been smoking on lately, but this entire interview was simply nuts and Kanye for President is a major no for me, dawg.
