{"id":15588,"date":"2020-07-09T09:37:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=15588"},"modified":"2020-07-09T09:37:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T13:37:40","slug":"kanye-west-announces-candidacy-for-president-its-gods-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2020\/07\/kanye-west-announces-candidacy-for-president-its-gods-country.html","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Announces Candidacy For President: “It’s God’s Country”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Popular music mogul Kanye West announced this week that God instructed him to run for president in 2020. He called Michelle Tidball, a preacher from Wyoming, as his running mate.<\/p>\n

In West’s post, he called for incumbent Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden to end their race.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the other candidates, I just gracefully suggest y\u2019all bow out \u2014 Trump and Biden, gracefully bow out. It\u2019s God\u2019s country, we are doing everything in service to God, nobody but God no more. I am in service of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, and I put everything I get on the line to serve God,\u201d West said in an interview with Forbes about his current campaign for the White House billed \u201cKanye West YES.\u201d<\/p>\n

West, who supported Trump previously, believes his presidency now \u201clooks like one big mess to me.\u201d West once said that Trump was \u201cthe closest president we\u2019ve had in years to allowing God to still be part of the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

West also slammed Biden, particularly for his controversial statement telling radio host Charlamagne Tha God of the popular \u201cThe Breakfast Club\u201d that is he struggled to vote for him, that meant he “ain’t black”.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of times just like political parties they feel all blacks have to be Democrat. This man, Joe Biden, said if you don\u2019t vote for me, then you are not black. Well, act like we didn\u2019t hear that? We act like we didn\u2019t hear that man say that? That man said that. It\u2019s a rap. We gonna walk, all the people. Jay-Z said it best,\u201d West said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying Trump\u2019s in my way, he may be a part of my way. And Joe Biden? Like come on man, please. You know? Obama\u2019s special. Trump\u2019s special. We say Kanye West is special. America needs special people that lead. Bill Clinton? Special. Joe Biden\u2019s not special,\u201d West said.<\/p>\n

While not going further into the issues, West did say he support prayer in schools, and leadership that embraces science and respect for the environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cReinstate in God\u2019s state, in God\u2019s 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,\u201d West said.<\/p>\n

Thanks to God, he said, his mission is now clear.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod just gave me the clarity and said it\u2019s time. You know I was out there, ended up in the hospital, people were calling me crazy. I’m not crazy. Between all of the influences and the positions that we can be put in as musicians \u2014 you go on tour, you put out all these albums, and you look up and you don\u2019t have any money in your account. It can drive you crazy, through all of that I was looking crazy because it wasn\u2019t the time. Now it\u2019s time. And we\u2019re not going crazy, we\u2019re going Yeezy, it\u2019s a whole \u2018notha level now. N-O-T-H-A,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

West famously first announced his intention to run for president on Twitter on July 4, declaring: \u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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