Though he doesn’t “quite get” comparisons of him to Kanye West, Donald Trump says, “I hope to run against him some day.”
The GOP presidential candidate tells Rolling Stone that he watched Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards when the “Yeezus” rapper announced his political ambitions.
“I have decided in 2020 to run for president,” West told the crowd at the end of a 12-minute acceptance speech for the music channel’s Video Vanguard Award.
{mosads}“I was actually watching. I saw him do it. And I said, ‘That’s very interesting. I wonder who gave him that idea,’” Trump says in a video interview published Wednesday.
“Somehow there are comparisons made so often, which is interesting — comparisons with Kanye and myself. I don’t quite get it,” Trump said.
Praising the outspoken 38-year-old entertainer, who attended a fundraiser with wife Kim Kardashian for Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton last month, Trump said, “He’s said very good things about me, extremely positive things.”
The real estate mogul, 69, added, “He’s actually a different kind of person than people think. He’s a nice guy.”
But Trump says he realizes any future White House bid by West might have cost him a vote.
“Trump, you had my vote,” VMAs host Miley Cyrus said onstage shortly after West’s remarks. “But now, Kanye West for president!” the singer enthusiastically exclaimed.
“Miley Cyrus said, ‘Oh, I was going to vote for Trump, but now I’m voting for you,’” Trump tells Rolling Stone with a grin. “So it sounded like she was all made up for me, and he took her away.”