New Yorker’s Latest Cover Depicts Kanye As The Next Truman

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Since Kanye West announced at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards that he was running for president in 2020, speculation has erupted as to whether America could be seeing a Kanye-Donald Trump showdown the next presidential election cycle.

New York cover artist Barry Blitt took that thought experiment one step farther, imagining the West’s campaign culminating in a come-from-behind victory, a la President Harry Truman’s win in 1948.

“Kanye West’s announcement of his intention to seek the Presidency reminds us that it’s not too early to start thinking about the 2020 campaign. (2016’s already old hat by now, anyway),” Blitt said of the cover, titled “2020 Vision.”

“And when one considers Mr. West, it doesn’t take a whole lot of imagination to be reminded of another scrappy kid who won the Presidency, back in 1948, against all odds. The press wrote him off, too. That’s right—Harry Truman.”

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  1. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    An asshole celeb vs. an asshole celeb. Yes, it’s an American dream election in the making.

  2. Guess they are also implying that Trump will win in 2016…god I hope not!

    Pretty funny pic though.

  3. It will be the first Presidential campaign race to be the subject of a new reality TV show: America’s Next Top Politician. Hosted by–of course–Fox.

  4. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    What’s scary is that I can imagine something like that being real. A random talent competition to chose the President of the United States.

  5. From your lips to some studio executive’s ears!

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