President Kanye West Channels Harry Truman, Beats Donald Trump on New Yorker Cover

Kanye West’s announcement at the VMAs that he’s running for president in 2020 was met mostly with the question, "Are you serious, bro?”

But the New Yorker is giving him the benefit of the doubt, instead asking “what if?” The cover of their September 14 issue features the rare image of a smiling West holding a newspaper with the headline: “Trump Defeats Kanye."

The cover not only references Trump’s recent statement that he would “hope to run against Kanye someday," but also a famous photo from 1948.

Cover illustrator Barry Blitt explained: “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.”

The odds against Truman winning were so high that the Chicago Daily Tribune even printed their issue falsely assuming his defeat to Thomas Dewey. Which explains why Kanye is smiling on the New Yorker cover – in this potential future, he beats Trump, and based on the cheering crowds, America loves him.

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