美国说唱歌手坎耶·韦斯特表示，他将竞选美国总统。他的妻子金·卡戴珊·韦斯特和企业家埃隆·马斯克都支持他。但尚不清楚韦斯特是否真的会参加竞选。

 

US rapper Kanye West has said he is running for president, potentially pitting him against a man he says he admires, Donald Trump.

 

"We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future," he tweeted. "I am running for president of the United States!"

 

His wife Kim Kardashian West and entrepreneur Elon Musk endorsed him.

 

But it's unclear whether West is really running.

 

He does not appear to have registered his name with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for November's election. The closest name the FEC database shows is a candidate called "Kanye Deez Nutz West", who filed their papers with the Green Party in 2015 and appears to have raised no money.

 

It is also not the first time West has claimed that he is running for the White House.

 

At the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, he said he had decided to run for president in 2020.

 

But last November he pushed the date back, saying he would actually run in the 2024 contest.

 

n his tweet on Saturday, US Independence Day, West, 43, did not say if his supposed run would be affiliated with a particular political party.