American stars follow the trend of "electing a president"

Source: Global Times

Dong Ming, special correspondent of this newspaper

Following the announcement of Kanye West's candidacy for the presidency of the United States on Independence Day, many stars have "followed the trend". According to the New York Daily News reported on the 5th, Mike Shinda, the lead singer of the rock band "Lincoln Park", tweeted "I also want to run for president" the day after West announced his candidacy. However, he later clarified that this was just a joke to create a new song.

Hillary Dave, a well-known singer who participated in "New Growing Pains", sent a large tweet about the new crown epidemic and American society on social media, and she denounced Americans for poor control of the epidemic, making the whole country worse and worse, not only not thinking about others, but also making the epidemic a tool for political parties to attack each other. At the end of this paragraph, Duff added a sentence of "I want to run for president", which is a summary of his position, and also echoes West's high-profile "candidacy" the previous day.

CNN said that last weekend, many celebrities also took pleasure in imitating and ridiculing West. Barry Hilton, a famous woman who has always been unwilling to be lonely, sent a very short tweet on the 5th - "Barryth wants to be president", accompanied by the American flag and the queen cartoon icon, more like a joke that looks hilarious and not too big. Black comedy star Tiffany Hadish joked on Twitter: "Welcome Dave Chapelle (another comedian) to my campaign." Talk show star Bob Sargett said in an interaction with fans on Twitter: "Do I want to run for president too? [Although] I don't know anything."

A series of celebrities have come out to stir up trouble, which makes the serious political event of the US presidential election become "entertaining", if West's previous statements combined with his consistent political stance, there is still a certain possibility of running for election, then The follow-up of Shinda, Duff and Hilton is more like creating an online carnival. Just as a flood of jokes and PS pictures about West and Kardashian popped up on social media these two days, American netizens and public figures are now happy to use this spoof to participate in the election, which is also a consequence of Trump's years of enthusiasm for "Twitter governance".