President Barack Obama and Kanye West attended a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee in San Francisco today (October 10). The emcee was scheduled to perform songs from his forthcoming album, SWISH.
The president took time to give West advice after the emcee announced at the MTV Video Music Awards that he is running for president in the 2020 campaign.
“You’ve got to deal with strange characters who behave as if they are on a reality TV show,” Obama says, according to Variety. “Saying you have a beautiful dark twisted fantasy — that’s what’s known as off-message in politics.”
West released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in 2010.
Obama kept the speech light-hearted, joking about all the people who think West’s election is impossible.
“Do you really think this country is going to elect a Black guy from the south side of Chicago with a funny name to be president of the U.S.?” he says.
West’s run has received comment from 2016 presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Ben Carson.
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This fruitcake aint gon be no damn president. Some of these muthafuckas will fall for anything the media tells em.
Obama for 2 more terms! Obama 2016! Lol
Said no one ever. Obama is a complete failure. Shames me I voted for this loser.
If Kanye is president Jay-Z just might become a bigger drug dealer than El Chappo. Kim K will be the first first hoe (Not lady) and every body will be getting head on flights.
Really starting to look like there will not be a 7th album from Kanye for quite a while, if ever. Say what you want about the guy, 6 albums….6 classics. Has that been done before? In any genre of music?
Nope, 1 classic, 2 good albums, 2 average albums and 1 garbage album.
6 classics? what type of garbage drugs are you intaking you schmuck….gtfo of here with that nonsense.