Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee chimed in on rapper Kanye West’s announcement on July 4 that he will run for president, saying “he is a free country” and “he certainly can run.”
“I think he will be surprised to discover all the incredible limitations in his entertainment career the moment he becomes an official candidate for president,” Huckabee told “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Sunday.
“All the vast financial reports he will be required to make and all the disclosures, some of which will not be pleasant to someone in the entertainment industry, and all the limitations on the money he can earn and how he can spend it.”
“I think it will be a rude awakening,” he continued.
“Now we must deliver on America’s promise by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future,” West tweeted Saturday. “I am running for President of the United States! # 2020VISION.”
Huckabee on Sunday said he has “great respect” for West.
“He seems like a fascinating character, but he should come talk to me and maybe 16 other of us who were onstage with Donald Trump in 2016 and he should ask me how that goes before it really jumps to the deep end of the story.” pool, “said Huckabee.
“I could have some advice for him and I promise it would be good advice.”
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This is not the first time West has said he will run for president. He stated in 2019, during his appearance at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York City, that he planned to perform in 2024.
When asked what West would advise and what his vision should be for 2020, Huckabee said he believes “we must regain the spirit of this country, that pioneering spirit that led people to take incredible risks with themselves, their families, their fortune and its future and build the largest country on Earth. ”
He added that it is important “to do it with a growing sense of equality and a growing sense of opportunity.”
“We were never a perfect nation,” continued Huckabee. “Our founders even said that we will work to achieve a more perfect union, but they never assumed that we were one or that we would become one … but they always strived to make it better and we are better.”
Huckabee went on to say, “I have been to many places on Earth, around 70 countries around the world, I have not yet been to one that I thought was better than this.”
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It was unclear if West has a campaign staff as of this moment.
Fox News’ Nick Givas and Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
