Kanye West Asked Donald Trump To Be His Running Mate For The 2024 US Election

Earlier this week, Kanye West confirmed that he will run for the next US Presidential Election in 2024.

When speaking with the paparazzi, Ye introduced the alt-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos as someone "who is working on the campaign." Of course, from there, he was asked if he was running for the position of President of the United States, to which he replied, "Yes… It's simple…. It's just we're moving toward the future," as reported by Consequence Of Sound.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a former Breitbart senior editor and most recently worked as an intern for Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. Ye and Yiannopoulos haven't yet commented about their professional relationship on social media.

As Consequence also noted, a partnership between Ye and Yiannopoulos is particularly problematic, as the latter is barred from entering New Zealand following his comments in the wake of the 2019 Christchurch mosque massacre, has been banned from Twitter for harassing women, and was fired from Breitbart and lost out on a book deal "after a video circulated in which he appeared to condone pedophilia".

Yesterday, Ye revealed that he asked former US President Donald Trump to be his running mate for the 2024 Presidential Election - a running mate is a person who runs with someone in a US election and is often given the position of Vice President. 

Ye tweeted out a poll, where he asked, "First time at Mar-a-Lago   

"Rain and traffic  

"Can’t believe I kept President Trump waiting  

"And I had on jeans    

"Yikes  

"What you guys think his response was when I asked him to be my running mate in 2024?" and supplied the answers "That's very Ye" and "That's very Nay".

With one hour to go, 58.8% of responders have voted for the former answer, while 41.2% have voted for the latter.

It's been an alarming year for Ye. He is facing a $250 million lawsuit from George Floyd's family because of his comments and has been dropped by Adidas, Balenciaga, and Def Jam Recordings, among others.

A few weeks ago, Ye was locked out of Facebook and Instagram after spouting anti-semitic rhetoric. Elon Musk allowed Ye and Donald Trump to return to Twitter.

As reported by The Los Angeles Times, Ye's anti-semitic comments have had real-life consequences and recently drew a well-known hate group to a Los Angeles freeway; the group "gave Nazi salutes as they stood behind a large banner that read, 'Kanye is right about the Jews.'" 

Earlier this month, Ye was wearing a "White Lives Matter" long-sleeved shirt at his Yeezy Season 9 fashion show, where he later proclaimed himself "the leader". American conservative pundit Candace Owens wore a matching shirt while models wore it on the runway.