Kanye West returned to Twitter on Friday night to post a photo of a hat with the numbers 2024 on it – sparking rumors of a possible presidential campaign.
The tweet was posted just a day after the rapper sat down for an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson where he explained his reasoning behind his ‘White Lives Matter’ fashion controversy and hinted at a second offer for the White House.
Kanye attempted a presidential run in 2020 but called it quits less than two weeks after the announcement.
Since then, the rapper – who regularly flirts with conservatism – has announced his plan for the 2024 presidential election more than once.
West has posted sporadically since his last main post in 2020, but deletes them almost immediately. His Twitter account has often made headlines for his rants about his ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her former boyfriend Pete Davidson.
But the tweet posted on Friday stuck around for at least a few hours.
Just a day earlier, West appeared on the Tucker Carlson show wearing a lanyard with an ultrasound image of a fetus.
He told Carlson he wore the lanyard to express he was “pro-life.”
‘50% of black death in America is abortion, so I really don’t care about people’s answers. I perform in front of an audience of one person, and that’s God.
“I care that there are more black babies aborted than born in New York City,” he said.
West may have relied on a 2013 report compiled by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to support his claim that more black babies are aborted than born in New York City.
West may have relied on a 2013 report compiled by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to support his claim that more black babies are aborted than born in New York City.
There were about 5,000 more abortions than black baby births in 2013 according to the city’s official report.
The interview came after West sparked controversy earlier this week by hosting a Paris Fashion Week event where he wore the drawstring and also posed with conservative commentator Candace Owens, while wearing t “White Lives Matter” t-shirts.
His appearance on Carlson’s show is the latest in a series of politically charged acts in which he expressed solidarity with former President Donald Trump.
The Texas Tribune reported this year that approximately 40% of women who have abortions in the United States are black, while black women make up less than 15% of the nation’s female population.
The 2013 report on Pregnancy Outcomes revealed that in 2013, black women terminated approximately 29,007 pregnancies, representing nearly 42% of all abortions in the city. That same year, black women in the city gave birth to 24,108 babies.
Carlson’s interview aired at 8 p.m. EDT on Fox News and came just days after West, 45, was condemned by fans and the fashion industry for the Paris show, leading to Adidas to put its partnership with West “under review”.
At the very start of Carlson’s interview with West at his Los Angeles studio, he addresses the particular lanyard by asking, “What’s that?”
“It’s a photograph of a baby’s ultrasound,” West said. “It just represents life. I am pro-life,” he said.
Kanye told Carlson that his political attitudes developed when Trump was in office. West suggested that during this period he gave in to social pressure not to voice his support for the ex-president.
