Kanye West for president – bring it on! Bidisha

almost 4 years in The guardian

With the rapper planning to challenge Donald Trump, could we see Kim as chief justice? Oprah for secretary of state? Elon Musk for defence?
I was wondering what more could happen to make 2020 even worse. Alien invasion? Obliterating asteroid? Actual Armageddon? But musician and part-time ranter Kanye West was way ahead of me, as geniuses often are. He’s running for president. Never before has one man’s messiah complex been so very literal: he, like, officially wants to be the most important man in the world.
I am in favour. Stay with me. Kris Jenner would run the Yeezy Administration very competently from a big squashy chair in the Oval Office, with West relegated to a recording studio/sweat lodge at the end of the White House lawn. Kim Kardashian West will finish her law degree, become chief justice and party with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Nancy Pelosi, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Kamala Harris, all of them wearing Skims shapewear. Kourtney, Kylie, Kendall and the other one would take the major posts in the administration and there would be a huge creche staffed by their exes. Continue reading...

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