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.”
