Kanye West confirms plan to run for US President, withdraws Trump support

Kanye West has withdrawn support for Donald Trump and described himself as “special” while confirming his 2020 White House bid.

Kanye West has confirmed his intention to run for President of the United States this year, comparing himself to “special” former leaders.

In a new interview with Forbes magazine, the rapper withdrew his support for current US President Donald Trump, with whom he has staunchly aligned himself in recent years and previously described as a “hero”.

“It looks like one big mess to me,” West said. “I don‘t like that I caught wind that he hid in the bunker.”

He was referring to reports last month that Trump was moved to an underground bunker during the Black Lives Matter protests at the White House over racial injustice and police brutality.

West has previously thrown his support behind the US President, but now says he’s withdrawing it. Picture: Timothy A. Clary/AFP

Kanye West speaks during his meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Picture: AFP

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West, who says he’s running as an independent under the banner of “The Birthday Party”, told Forbes he had no problem with the fact his campaign for presidency could take votes away from Joe Biden, insisting the Democratic nominee was “not special”.

“I‘m not denying it, I just told you,” West said. “To say that the Black vote is Democratic is a form of racism and white supremacy.

“I‘m not saying Trump’s in my way, he may be a part of my way. And Joe Biden? Like come on man, please.

“You know? Obama’s special. Trump’s special. We say Kanye West is special. America needs special people that lead. Bill Clinton? Special. Joe Biden’s not special.”

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden. Picture: Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP

West made headlines around the world last week after announcing his surprise bid for the White House in a 4th of July tweet.

“We must now realise the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States! #2020VISION,” he wrote.

We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States 🇺🇸! #2020VISION

— ye (@kanyewest) July 5, 2020

Despite his public announcement, West admitted he hadn’t yet developed policies.

“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,” he told the magazine.

The rapper and his reality TV star wife, Kim Kardashian. Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

He also says he contracted coronavirus in February, which left him with “chills, shaking in the bed”, and claimed that he was suspicious of vaccinations in a bizarre tirade.

“It’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralysed… 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.”

West added that Covid-19 was “all about God. We need to stop doing things that make God mad,” and that he was “pro-life because I’m following the word of the Bible”.

“Planned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work,” he told the magazine.

West went on to bizarrely compare the “design group” he’d take to the White House to a fictional kingdom in superhero movie Black Panther.

“A lot of Africans do not like the movie 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 … 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.”

West also admitted he hadn’t put together any kind of tax policy yet, despite his presidential intentions.

“I haven’t done enough research on that yet,” West admitted. “I will research that with the strongest experts that serve God and come back with the best solution. And that will be my answer for anything that I haven’t researched. I have the earplug in and I’m going to use that earplug.”