{"id":27684,"date":"2022-11-25T18:45:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T18:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=27684"},"modified":"2022-11-25T19:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T19:03:12","slug":"kanye-west-declares-his-2024-presidential-run-among-ties-to-the-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/11\/25\/kanye-west-declares-his-2024-presidential-run-among-ties-to-the-far-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West declares his 2024 presidential run among ties to the far-right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The disgraced rapper and designer formerly known as Kanye West has said he plans to run for president in 2024, amid a series of antisemitic tirades and new far-right associations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The declaration of his candidacy, which referenced several political figures and aides associated with US white supremacist and anti-democracy movements, would make him the second person to enter the race after Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A day earlier, the sportswear giant Adidas announced it was launching an investigation into allegations he harassed former employees. Rolling Stone magazine reported claims by Adidas employees working on the rapper\u2019s Yeezy shoe line that he used \u201cporn, bullying and mind games\u201d to create a \u201ctoxic environment\u201d at the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That revelation itself followed several fashion brands, including Adidas, Gap and Balenciaga, dropping the 45-year-old star over antisemitic comments he made online, including that he would go \u201cdeath con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That comment, after he wore a controversial \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d T-shirt during Paris fashion week, triggered mass condemnation of the rapper, and he was dropped by banker JPMorgan, his talent agent CAA, lawyers and record company. Ye later said he had lost \u201c$2bn in one day\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twitter and Instagram temporarily locked his accounts. Ye went on Fox News\u2019 Tucker Carlson Tonight and made further inflammatory comments, this time about his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, and the pop star Lizzo. He told former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo that his antisemitic comment was \u201cnot hate speech; this is the truth\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ye\u2019s faltering effort to distance himself from the remarks were further undermined when antisemitic demonstrators referenced Ye in signs raised over the 405 freeway in Los Angeles, California, and in Jacksonville, Florida. One sign reportedly read: \u201cKanye is right about the Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis weekend\u2019s antisemitic protests in LA were disgusting and cannot be normalized or brushed aside. Words matter\u201d, California\u2019s governor, Gavin Newsom, said in a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presidential run is Ye\u2019s second. During his first, in 2020, he qualified for ballot access in just 12 states, unsuccessfully sued for access to five more, gave up on four and missed registration deadlines on a further 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He held one highly emotional rally in South Carolina in which he spoke of his anti-abortion views, funded two television ads and ultimately picked up just 70,000 votes across the entire US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ye\u2019s announcement of a second run for the White House was made with a video of his campaign logo to social media captioned \u201cYe24\u201d. In it, he claimed to have asked Donald Trump to be his running mate, a suggestion that had \u201cmost perturbed\u201d the former president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe thing that Trump was most perturbed about [is] me asking him to be my vice-president,\u201d Kanye said in a video posted on his recently unlocked Twitter account. \u201cI think that was, like, lower on the list of things that caught him off-guard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was the fact that I walked in with intelligence,\u201d Ye added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the \u201cYe24\u201d Twitter post, the rapper said he\u2019d he advised Trump to \u201cgo and get these people that the media tried to cancel\u201d, with flashes of Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, Roger Stone and InfoWars conspiracist Alex Jones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several days ago, Ye was seen in the company of white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago country club and home. In the subsequent video, titled \u201cMar-<\/a>A-Lago Debrief\u201d, Ye said Trump \u201cstarted basically screaming at me at the table, telling me I\u2019m going to lose. Has that ever worked for anyone in history? I\u2019m like, \u2018Wait, hold on Trump, you\u2019re talking to Ye.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuentes is known for virulently antisemitic opinions of his own, as well as extreme racism, misogyny and fascism. He started a white nationalist organization called America First Foundation. The Department of Justice has called him a white supremacist and he has been banned from multiple social media platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the video Ye sang Fuentes\u2019s praises and called him a \u201cloyalist\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ye also recently told the far-right British commentator Milo Yiannopoulos that he was \u201cworking on the campaign\u201d, which Yiannopoulos said he took to be a campaign announcement. On Thursday, Ye indicated that he had enlisted Yiannopoulos as his 2024 campaign manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yiannopoulos has a long history of antisemitism, too, including donating $14.88 to a Jewish journalist, a figure that references the so-called \u201c14 Words\u201d white supremacist manifesto and 88, used by neo-Nazis as shorthand for \u201cHeil Hitler\u201d because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The disgraced rapper and designer formerly known as Kanye West has said he plans to run for president in 2024, amid a series of antisemitic tirades and new far-right associations. The declaration of his candidacy, which referenced several political figures and aides associated with US white supremacist and anti-democracy movements, would make him the second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[6493,4836,8726,11264,12535,8360,5777,5268,8351,2848,10387,3986,7234,11606,10393,9478,9196,1271,7807,5321,8254,7090,7782,10453,2416,6237,8394,10197,8662,6259,5139,6030,10419,2659,398,10560,4445,7123,10634,12791,10832,7661,11973,6332,1253,8361,13257,3805,11377,6200,504,5333,428,11304,523,5349,10838,10041,7465,146,11019,5350,184,6348,8033,12790,6571,2982,8158,7962,3872],"class_list":["post-27684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-abortion","tag-access","tag-adidas","tag-allegations","tag-alphabet","tag-balenciaga","tag-banned","tag-british","tag-caa","tag-california","tag-campaign","tag-corey-lewandowski","tag-death","tag-democracy","tag-department-of-justice","tag-dropped","tag-environment","tag-ex-wife","tag-fashion","tag-florida","tag-fox-news","tag-games","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-guard","tag-h","tag-hitler","tag-instagram","tag-investigation","tag-jewish-people","tag-jews","tag-jones","tag-journalist","tag-justice","tag-kanye-west","tag-kim-kardashian","tag-la","tag-lizzo","tag-los-angeles","tag-lost","tag-manager","tag-manifesto","tag-mar-a-lago","tag-one","tag-online","tag-paris","tag-paris-fashion-week","tag-porn","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-rally","tag-rapper","tag-running-mate","tag-shoe","tag-social-media","tag-south-carolina","tag-speech","tag-sued","tag-truth","tag-tucker-carlson","tag-twitter","tag-united-states-president-donald-john-trump-jr","tag-us","tag-video","tag-weekend","tag-white","tag-white-house","tag-white-lives-matter-2","tag-ye","tag-yeezy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}