Kanye West is more qualified to be president than Donald Trump

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Kanye West: Artist, entertainer and now, apparently, prophet and presidential candidate. During Kanye’s acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards last night, he announced that he’s running for president…in 2020, seemingly implying that he knows what the political climate will look like in five years.

Does he have your vote America? @kanyewest accepts the Video Vanguard award http://t.co/pyg3SBh8gq

— MTV (@MTV) August 31, 2015

Of course, it would be positively ridiculous if Kanye were to launch a presidential bid. Then again, it is positively ridiculous that Donald Trump is running for president. And yet, here we are. As Blue Nation Review’s Jessey Berney wrote this morning, in relative terms, Kanye is every bit as qualified to be president as the current Republican poll leader, and the media will have a responsibility to cover him as such:

Kanye West, via Flickr

West is not Trump; he’s neither a racist nor a fool, although he’s sometimes foolish. He is smarter and more talented than Trump. His artistic accomplishments are more impressive than any ugly skyscraper or crumbling casino. So if the media is going to treat Donald J. Trump as a serious candidate for president in 2016, it had better be prepared to do the same for Kanye West in 2020.

The media made Trump, and it dug this hole for itself.

The media cares about which candidate does better on Twitter? Kanye’s got 14.2 million followers, more than every current presidential candidate combined, and his Twitter feed is every bit as entertaining as Donald Trump’s. The media cares about success? Unlike Trump, Kanye built his fortune in a relatively short amount of time with no help from his parents — and he didn’t have to destroy anyone’s life to do it. You think Donald Trump is “authentic”? Kanye’s career is one giant stream of consciousness; he is the antithesis of a filter.

Either both Donald Trump and Kanye West are ridiculous candidates unfit to be treated as serious presidential contenders, or neither of them are.

The media’s made their decision with respect to Trump; they have a few years to decide whether they’ll stay consistent for Kanye.

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