Kanye West announces 2024 presidential bid

Rapper Kanye West has said helium intends to tally for US president successful 2024, contempt facing respective scandals implicit his caller behaviour.

The star, who has legally changed his sanction to Ye, posted a video of his run logo to societal media, alongside the caption Ye 24.

He besides claimed to person asked Donald Trump to beryllium his moving mate.

West antecedently ran for president successful 2020, but that run flopped, attracting a meagre 70,000 votes.

His latest claims came successful a video posted aft West was spotted astatine Trump's Mar-A-Lago play nine earlier this week, accompanied by Nick Fuentes, a salient achromatic nationalist.

In a video titled Mar-A-Lago Debrief, West claimed: "Trump started fundamentally screaming astatine maine astatine the table, telling maine I'm going to lose. Has that ever worked for anyone successful history?"

The motorboat of West's run comes arsenic the rapper faces a fig of damaging controversies.

He provoked a tempest of disapproval aft attending Paris Fashion Week successful a T-shirt bearing the slogan "White Lives Matter" - a operation adopted by achromatic supremacists, who began utilizing it successful 2015 arsenic a effect to the Black Lives Matter movement.

West past claimed his critics were being paid by a concealed cabal of Jewish people, a communal trope of anti-Semitism.

As helium continued to marque anti-Semitic comments online and successful tv interviews, the 45-year-old was dropped by his endowment agency, portion manner companies including Gap, Adidas and Balenciaga said they would nary longer enactment with him.

The instrumentalist aboriginal commented that helium had mislaid "2 cardinal dollars successful 1 day".

Earlier this week, Rolling Stone mag reported claims that West had utilized "porn, bullying and caput games" to make a "toxic environment" among Adidas employees moving connected his Yeezy marque shoes.

When West ran for president successful 2020, helium announced his run excessively precocious to look connected the ballot successful astatine slightest six states.

He held lone 1 rally, successful which helium broke down successful tears arsenic helium discussed abortion, and funded 2 tv adverts. In the end, helium was lone listed arsenic a campaigner successful 12 states.

For his 2024 bid, the rapper suggested helium had enlisted alt-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos arsenic his run manager.

A erstwhile exertion astatine the close helping work Breitbart, Yiannopoulos was mostly shunned by mainstream conservatives aft a video emerged successful 2017 of him appearing to condone paedophilia. He said the comments were "gallows humour" and stated his "disgust" astatine the intersexual maltreatment of minors.

Most recently, Yiannopolous worked arsenic an intern for Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.