Last week, Ted Cruz announced that, should he get the nomination for President, Carly Fiorina would be his running mate. Donald Trump was expected to respond in kind, but apparently he’s having a hard time getting anyone to agree to take the second slot.
According to the New York Times, both John Kasich and Scott Walker didn’t just turn down the gig, they reacted “viscerally” to the mere thought. Lindsey Graham likened being Trump’s Veep to “buying a ticket on the Titanic.” Gov. Nikki Haley and Rep. Jeff Flake run every time they see a Trump emissary.
But there’s one man up for the job: Kanye West. During the final episode of his sister-in-law’s chat show, Kocktails with Khloe, the Kardashian clan encouraged the rapper to throw his hat in the ring, as he’s been threatening to do. He nodded approvingly, and assured his family that he’d only “do four years.”
Until he announces his campaign, however, West is reportedly supporting Donald Trump. He hasn’t acknowledged it in public (he and his wife Kim Kardashian both gave small amounts to the Clinton campaign last summer, in order for Kim to attend a fundraiser with the candidate and get a selfie), but Kanye is, apparently, ready to unify the country. And Donald Trump, who often mentions his relationship with the rapper, couldn’t be happier. With West on the ticket, Yeezy 2020 is an actual possibility.
Maybe the time is right for the Trump Train to collide with Team Yeezy. The two are remarkably similar, after all. Both have a habit of aspiring to wholly unlikely career scenarios—Trump wants to be President, while West claims he’d give up his music career to be the creative director at luxury brand Hermes—and are prone to bizarre, attention-grabbing displays. Both have a strange way of overstating their achievements, and both have a unique and compelling social media strategy. They’re both sharp dressers. And both seem equally unclear on what, exactly, the Executive Office does, but neither see that as a hurdle to occupying it.
Trump talked about breathing new life into the Republican party. This would be one way to do it. Perhaps not the right way. But a way.
