Presidential candidates taking their positions in the race for the White House. Bernie Sanders? Single-payer healthcare system. Donald Trump offers ignorant banter and divisive rants. So it only makes sense that presidential candidate Kanye West has already declared the issue he holds close to his heart: the importance of sweatshirts. Yes: sweatshirts.
“I think sweatshirts are the way of the future,” he said in an interview with Vanity Fair about his showing at New York Fashion Week Spring 2016. “And we worked so hard on our development of our actual sweatshirts. Sweatshirts are f—ing important. That might sound like the funniest quote ever. How can you say all this stuff about running for president and then say sweatshirts are important? But they are. Just mark my words. Mark my words like Mark Twain.”
So about that presidential run… was West serious? “Oh, definitely,” he said, adding that the response has been very positive. “As soon as I said that, it was like, ‘Wait a second, we would really be into that, because actually if you think about it, he’s extremely thoughtful. Every time he’s ever gotten in trouble, he was really jumping in front of a bullet for someone else. He’s probably the most honest celebrity that we have.’ I didn’t approach that because I thought it would be fun. It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, let’s go rent some jet skis in Hawaii.’ No, the exact opposite. I sit in clubs and I’m like, ‘Wow, I’ve got five years before I go and run for office and I’ve got a lot of research to do, I’ve got a lot of growing up to do.’”
West has also thought about his general platform, which involves him remaining a fashion designer. “It’s very important that I continue to design, to be in practice of trying to make the best decisions possible. I hate politics. I’m not a politician at all. I care about the truth and I just care about human beings. I just want everyone to win, that’s all I can say.”
