Kanye West Running for President in 2020

Kanye West announced he was running for president in 2020 during the MTV VMAs on Sunday.

The bold declaration came at the end of an epic acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award.

Taylor Swift honored the star with a gushing introduction that was a nod to their first encounter.

The 38-year-old famously rushed the stage when Taylor Swift accepted an award back in 2009, claiming that his friend Beyonce was a more worthy recipient.

Kanye's announcement that he would run for president comes almost ten years to the day that he attacked President George Bush on national television during a live segment.

On September 2, 2005, Kanye and Mike Meyers appeared at a telethon benefit for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and almost immediately Kanye appeared to go off script.

'I hate the way they portray us in the media,' said Kanye.

'If you see a black family, it says, "They're looting." You see a white family, it says, "They're looking for food." And you know that it's been five days because most of the people are black.'

Meyers took over soon after that, but when he went to take a breath at one point, Kanye said; 'George Bush doesn't care about black people.'

He then walked off stage. 

And while he was acknowledged with the Video Vanguard Award at this year's Video Music Awards, his previous antics at the star-studded ceremony certainly loomed large in everyone's minds.

The prize has previously been won by acts including Michael and Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, U2 and George Michael, with it last being presented to Beyonce in 2014. 

The All Day rapper is familiar with the award, having given it to his friend and long-time collaborator Hype Williams in 2006 for his achievements as a 'film maker'.

Kanye, father to two-year-old daughter North, has been making music videos since 2003 beginning with his first single, Through The Wire.

Since then he has worked on several iconic music videos including 2004's All Falls Down, 2005's Gold Digger featuring Jamie Foxx, 2007 Daft Punk collaboration Stronger, 2011's All Of The Lights featuring Rihanna and the infamous 2013 Bound 2 video starring his wife Kim Kardashian.

Kanye last performed at the event in 2013 when he played single Blood on the Leaves.

Regardless of how much history Kanye has made at the award show, his best known appearance was when he interrupted Taylor at the event six years ago while she accepted the Best Female Video Award to insist Beyonce should have won the accolade.

Rushing the stage, Kanye took the microphone from the blonde singer and infamously said: 'Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time…one of the best videos of all time!'

The rapper was then subsequently booed off the stage by the audience in attendance.

Kanye and the 25-year-old singer have since put their differences aside and were even pictured together at the Grammy Awards back in February.

The Style hitmaker recently revealed to Vanity Fair that it was Kanye's 'Big Brother' Jay-Z who insisted that the two superstars start afresh.

Speaking about the situation in the new issue of Vanity Fair magazine, she said: 'I feel like I wasn't ready to be friends with (Kanye) until I felt like he had some sort of respect for me, and he wasn't ready to be friends with me until he had some sort of respect for me - so it was the same issue, and we both reached the same place at the same time.

'I became friends with Jay Z, and I think it was important, for Jay Z, for Kanye and I to get along ... And then Kanye and I both reached a place where he would say really nice things about my music and what I've accomplished, and I could ask him how his kid's doing.'