Kanye West Details 2020 Presidential Platform

Billionaire rapper and business mogul Kanye West vaguely outlined a preliminary campaign platform in an interview with Forbes Wednesday, after revealing in a July 4th tweet that he would be running for president.

Announcing his presidential candidacy, West tweeted, “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.”

As for his platform, West is clear on some issues and still developing his positions on others.

With regard to developing policies, the musician rejected the idea of having policies as potentially restrictive.

“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.

He went on to discuss the superhero movie “Black Panther” and its fictional kingdom of Wakanda. West said he would frame his vision for his administration off the box office blockbuster.

“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,” he said.

“This is not going to be some Nipsey Hussle being murdered, they’re doing a documentary, we have so many soldiers that die for our freedom, our freedom of information, that there is a cure for AIDS out there, there is going to be a mix of big pharma and holistic,” the sneaker mogul continued.

Asked about foreign policy, West said, “I haven’t developed it yet. I’m focused on protecting America, first, with our great military. Let’s focus on ourselves first.”

The presidential hopeful also said he still has work to do on his tax policy.

“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.”

West said he was pro-life “because I’m following the word of the Bible,” and against capital punishment.

“Thou shalt not kill. I’m against the death penalty,” he said.

West also said he supports reinstating prayer in schools, saying, “Reinstate in God’s state, in God’s country, the fear and love of God in all schools and organizations and you chill the fear and love of everything else. So that was a plan by the Devil to have our kids committing suicide at an all-time high by removing God to have murders in Chicago at an all-time high, because the human beings working for the Devil removed God and prayer from the schools. That means more drugs, more murders, more suicide.”

In a stark contrast to both President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, West embraced China amid heightened tensions between the US and the Communist country.

“When I become president, let me make some promises, the NBA will open all the way back up from Nigeria to Nanchang and the world will see the greatest athletes play. The world will experience the change in their element. The money is gonna come back.

“I love China. I love China. It’s not China’s fault that disease. It’s not the Chinese people’s fault. They’re God’s people also. I love China. It changed my life. It changed my perspective, it gave me such a wide perspective. My mom as an English professor taught English in China when I was in 5th grade,” the rapper told the outlet.

Asked about racial tensions in the wake of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man killed by a white Minneapolis police officer, West said he was committed to ending police brutality, but decried calling all police officers bad.

“One of my to-do lists is to end police brutality. The police are people too. To end laws that don’t make sense. Like, in the George Floyd case, there was a Black guy that went to jail and it was his first day on the force. So if it’s your first day on the force and it’s your training day, and this OG accredited cop with 18 violations already starts filing out, are you going to jump in front of that person and lose your job that same day? Especially in this climate when 40,000 people lost their jobs? This man was put in a position where — and also he probably didn’t realize that the cop was going to take it that far, he probably was so scared, in shock, paralyzed, like so many Black people. I’m one of the few Black people that would speak openly like this.”

West went on to describe a reimagining of how Americans interact with their societal institutions.

“The schools, the infrastructure was made for us to not truly be all we can be but to be just good enough to work for the corporations that designed the school systems. We’re tearing that up, what we’ll do is we’re not going to tear up the Constitution, what we will do is amend,” he told Forbes.

SOURCE