It’s been a big week for Kanye West. First he announced he was running for president, then he congratulated his wife on reaching ‘billionaire’ status, and then reports surfaced claiming he received millions in COVID-19 loans from the US government. But Kanye isn’t done breaking the internet, just take his recent interview with Forbes. Hear all about the above:
On Becoming President
During the interview, Kanye said he was going to “speak with Jared Kushner, the White House, with Biden,” to make sure his bid for presidency became a reality. However, The Guardian reports that West has missed the deadline when it comes to appearing on the ballot in many states.
West also said he will use the framework of Black Panther’s Wakanda if he became President. “Let’s get back to Wakanda…Just the amount of innovation that can happen, the amount of innovation in medicine—like big pharma—we are going to work, innovate, together.”
Speaking to Forbes, Kanye also said that if he were to become President, it would be “God’s appointment” and said Donald Trump is the “closest president we’ve had in years to allow God to still be part of the conversation.”
On Donald Trump
West also spoke about wearing a Make America Great Again cap to meet Trump in the Oval Office. “One of the main reasons I wore the red hat [was] as a protest to the segregation of votes in the black community,” he said. “Other than the fact that I like Trump hotels and the saxophones in the lobby.”
On COVID-19 And A Vaccine
Perhaps the most shocking part of Kanye’s interview with Forbes was when he said of a COVID-19 vaccine, “it’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralysed…So when they say the way we’re going to fix COVID is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious. That’s the mark of the beast.”
“They want to put chips inside of us, they want to put chips inside of us, they want to do all kinds of things to make it where we can’t cross the gates of heaven,” Kanye said, adding that COVID-19 is “all about God.”
“We need to stop doing things that make God mad.”
Ye even revealed he may have contracted the virus earlier this year, and said he was “looking at videos telling me what I’m supposed to do to get over it.”
On Police Brutality, Abortion And Education
Speaking to Forbes, Kanye said he wanted to end police brutality, adding “the police are people, too.” He also said he’s against the death penalty and that he’s “pro-life because I’m following the world of the Bible.”
Later, he said he wanted to reinstate “the fear and love of God in all schools and organisations” and talked of 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.”
Lastly, Ye said his other priorities are to “clean up the chemicals. In our deodorant, in our toothpaste, there are chemicals that affect our ability to be of service to God.”
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