Kanye West said he’s planning a 2024 presidential run and has tapped far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos in a video posted to Twitter Sunday.
The video, through which West says Yiannopoulos is working on his campaign, comes because the rapper’s Twitter account was restored after he was banned from the app within the wake of vile, anti-Semitic remarks he made last month.
“That is Milo right here, working on the campaign,” West, 45, said within the video posted by “PatriotTakes” Twitter account.
“Is that an announcement?” considered one of the boys asks as they each laugh.
“I suppose it’s,” Yiannopoulos — who most recently worked as an unpaid intern for right-wing firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — replied chuckling. “Thanks, I accept.”
The cameraman then asked West, “So you might be running?”
“Yes,” Ye answered with amusing. “It’s easy ’cause ain’t no one can tell me, you understand, ‘it’s best to say this, you shouldn’t say that,’ you understand? It’s just we’re moving towards the longer term.”
West and Yiannopoulos have a shared experience of creating horrific remarks and quickly being slammed by the general public.
West, who modified his legal name to Ye, tweeted about going “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE” in early October and was subsequently banned from the social media platform.
Earlier Sunday, the musician-turned-designer posted a message to his Twitter profile to see if his account was reinstated since Elon Musk took over the corporate.
“Testing Testing Seeing if my Twitter is unblocked,” West wrote to his nearly 32 million followers.
Musk, who bought the corporate for $44 billion, said last month that West’s account was restored before the acquisition and he was not consulted beforehand.
The billionaire restored former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account a day earlier after polling users. Trump, who also announced a 2024 White House run, was dumped from Twitter within the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
Yiannopoulos, who stays off Twitter, had largely disappeared from the general public eye since 2017 when he made comments allegedly advocating for pedophilia — stating that sex between 13-year-olds and older men could be “life-affirming.”
He made headlines over the summer with the announcement of his humble, unpaid gig working for Taylor Greene.
