Obama Gives Kanye West a few Advice About Getting Into Politics

President Barack Obama gave Kanye West a few political advice at a fundraiser in San Francisco on Saturday morning, poking light fun at the hip-hop artist’s announcement that he is considering running for president in 2020. “That’s what’s known as “off message” in politics, you can’t something like that”. “You may have heard that Kanye is thinking about running [for] speaker of the house. You gotta be cool with that”, Obama said. “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”.

West, in a rambling speech at MTV’s Video Music Awards in August, announced plans to run for President in 2012. He has been supportive of Obama and also performed at MTV & ServiceNation’s “Live From The Youth Inaugural Ball” in January 2009 in celebration of Obama being sworn in.

Obama was preceded on stage Saturday by Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who introduced the National Basketball Association championship-winning Golden State Warriors.

Obama added to great applause at the Warfield theater.

“Why are so many Republican politicians down on America? Why are they so grumpy?”

Both Obama and West hail from Chicago’s south side. West’s wife, Kim Kardashian West, is one of the stars of E! reality show Keeping Up With the Kardashians. “I mean, calling people “jackass”?…”

Then, in March at Oxford University, West claimed the president occasionally dials him up to chew the fat: “Obama calls the home phone, by the way”. In 2013, meanwhile, West told a Philadelphia radio station that he was no longer going to mention Obama in conversation. Yet West soon doubled down on his claim to TMZ: “I love Obama”.

Josh Richman covers politics.