--- title: Donald Trump Looks Forward to Running Against Kanye in 2020 description: Trump doesn't "quite get" comparisons between the two. canonical: https://time.com/4020450/kanye-west-donald-trump-2020/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-02T19:12:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:13.003Z og:title: Donald Trump Hopes to Run Against Kanye in 2020 og:description: But the GOP candidate doesn't "get" comparisons between the himself and Kanye og:url: https://time.com/4020450/kanye-west-donald-trump-2020/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa5dc816c8352d64/6988620935ba6f9418c0efd3/kanye-west1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Kanye West og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Hopes to Run Against Kanye in 2020 twitter:description: But the GOP candidate doesn't "get" comparisons between the himself and Kanye twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa5dc816c8352d64/6988620935ba6f9418c0efd3/kanye-west1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Hopes to Run Against Kanye West in 2020 > Sponsored content. 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Matt Sayles—Invision/AP by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Sep 2, 2015 7:12 PM UTC Every since Kanye West [announced](http://time.com/4016623/vmas-2015-kanye-west-speech-president-2020/) Sunday that he plans to run for president in 2020, the hip-hop artist and current Republican candidate Donald Trump [have been compared](http://time.com/4018623/white-house-kanye-2020/) for their similar braggadocio and outsider status. Now, Trump himself has weighed in on the possibility of a Kanye campaign. [In an interview](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/videos/donald-trump-on-why-he-hopes-kanye-runs-for-president-20150902) with _Rolling Stone_, Trump said he doesn’t “quite get” comparisons between himself and the Grammy award winner, but admitted to being a big fan of West. “He’s actually a different kind of person than people think. He’s a nice guy,” said Trump. “I hope to run against him someday.” The real estate magnate even suggested he may have been an inspiration for Kanye’s White House ambitions. “That’s very interesting,” Trump said of Kanye’s campaign pre-announcement. “I wonder who gave him that idea?” If Kanye does run against Trump in the next election, he may have his work cut out for him. The GOP frontrunner [leads West in a hypothetical matchup](https://medium.com/@EchelonInsights/we-just-polled-kanye-west-in-a-presidential-matchup-against-donald-trump-here-s-what-we-found-167c97302233), according to a survey conducted by a Washington based research group. (Keep in mind that the survey has as much validity as the [Ready for Kanye super PAC](http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-31/next-stop-for-kanye-west-fec-paperwork-) someone created. It was done using Google Consumer Surveys, so it’s not screening well for registered or likely voters.) 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