Kanye West Pronounces 2024 Presidential Bid Amid Controversy

President Kanye West? Amid the rapper’s ongoing controversies, he’s formally throwing his hat within the ring for the 2024 presidential election.

The “Stronger” rapper, 45, launched his marketing campaign through his newly resurrected Twitter account on Thursday, November 24. (New platform proprietor, Elon Musk, reinstated West’s profile earlier this month after being beforehand barred for sharing antisemitic messages.) West captioned a collection of marketing campaign adverts with the hashtag “Ye24.”

One of many Chicago native’s adverts even talked about his latest antisemitic controversy, sharing footage from his interview with Tucker Carlson and Dave Chappelle’s crucial Saturday Night time Stay monologue.

West — who beforehand ran for POTUS in 2020 in opposition to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump — has lately been the topic of controversy. The Yeezy designer first made headlines final month after he wore a “White Lives Matter” shirt to his Paris Style Week present. Whereas the likes of Gigi Hadid, Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin), Diddy and Vogue’s Gabriella Karefa-Johnson have referred to as out his sartorial decisions, he’s continued to defend his actions.

“I do sure issues from a sense, I simply channel the vitality,” West stated throughout an October 6 episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight. “It simply feels proper. It’s a intestine intuition, a reference to God and simply brilliance.”

The Grammy Award winner continued to double down on his stance, claiming people of Jewish religion have been falsely guilty for the social media assaults in opposition to him. Weeks later, West hurled a number of antisemitic messages on Instagram and Twitter, through which he alleged that he needed to go “dying con 3” on those that apply Judaism.

“I’ll say I’m sorry for the people who I damage with the ‘dying con’ 0,” West finally apologized throughout an October 19 look on Piers Morgan Uncensored. “I really feel like I brought about damage and confusion. And I’m sorry for the households of the people who had nothing to do with the trauma that I had been via, and that I used my platform the place you say damage individuals damage individuals. I used to be damage.”

Whereas West has continued to again his actions, he has misplaced multimillion-dollar model offers. Adidas, Balenciaga, Hole, Vogue and CAA (Artistic Arts Company) have all lower ties with the rapper.

Practically two years earlier, the “Heartless” musician introduced his first foray into politics.

“It was one thing that God put in my coronary heart again in 2015,” West stated of his presidential intentions throughout an look on the “Joe Rogan Expertise” podcast in October 2020. “A number of days earlier than the MTV Awards it hit me within the bathe. Once I first considered it, I simply began laughing to myself and all this pleasure came to visit my physique, via my soul. I felt that vitality. I felt that spirit.”

He added on the time: “If it’s in God’s plan that a part of my path is to be the governor then that’s nice, however my calling is to be the chief of the free world.”

Regardless of West’s excessive hopes to win the overall election, he solely certified to look on the electoral ballots in 12 states. He garnered 60,000 votes and finally conceded the morning after 2020’s election. Regardless of shedding to Biden, 80, West has continued to trace at one other run.

“Whenever you run for ’24, I guess your partner gon’ be with you / Who put this collectively? Me, that’s who,” the document producer rapped on his “Preserve It Burnin” tune, which dropped in April, seemingly hinting that he needs ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s assist.

The 42-year-old Skims mogul — who shares North, 9, Saint, 6, Chicago, 4, and Psalm, 3, with West —  filed for divorce in February 2021. Kardashian was declared legally single in March.