Kanye West in 2020: Because Donald Trump isn't a big enough egomaniac

KANYE WEST has always been a blunt talker, but at the MTV Video Music Awards, in its annual desperate cry for relevance, did the blunt get the better of him?

After admitting that he smoked a little before the show, Kanye announced that he would "run" for president in 2020.

Hey, if Donald Trump can do it . . .

With Kanye announcing so early, black Republican activist Eugene Craig has created a political action committee to back his candidacy.

Craig, 24, filed paperwork yesterday to launch "Ready for Kanye."

He told the Washington Post that if there's a Democrat in the White House, he would encourage West to run.

"I think he will bring an interesting dialogue to our party," Craig said.

Dialogue? Craig, we think you mean monologue.

What would be very interesting, Tattle believes, is Kanye at the Iowa State Fair and touring the Bible Belt with his reality-TV/porn-star wife and her trans stepparent.

How will that play with the GOP base?

Kim says she's all about the bass.

There's a "SpongeBob" musical in the works, but the music is no kiddie stuff.

Nickelodeon said yesterday it will produce the world premiere of "The SpongeBob Musical" in Chicago next summer with original songs from John Legend, David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, Dirty Projectors, the Flaming Lips, T.I., Plain White T's, They Might Be Giants, Lady Antebellum, Panic! At the Disco and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry.

It is co-conceived and directed by Tina Landau (who grew up near Tattle in Riverdale) with a book by Kyle Jarrow and music supervision by Tom Kitt. The show will play Chicago's Oriental Theatre starting June 7, with an eye to Broadway.

Producers call it "a rousing tale of a simple sea sponge who faces the unfathomable. It's a celebration of unbridled hope, unexpected heroes and pure theatrical invention."

And if it works for "SpongeBob," how long until "The Scrub Daddy Musical"?

* Lucy Liu ("Elementary") took to Instagram and Twitter on Thursday to reveal that she is a new mom to Rockwell Lloyd Liu, "brought into the world via gestational carrier." He is her first child and a publicist said both "are healthy and happy."

Liu, who also grew up near Tattle in New York, plays Dr. Joan Watson opposite Jonny Lee Miller's Sherlock Holmes in the CBS crime drama. Her other on-screen credits include "Ally McBeal" and the films "Charlie's Angels" and "Kill Bill."

* TVGuide.com reports that Danica McKellar will serve as a judge during the 2016 Miss America Competition, which takes place Sept. 13, 2015.

"The Miss America Organization shares my passion for the advancement of women in the STEM fields and celebrates smart, strong women," McKellar said in a statement. "I am proud to be part of the show and an organization that is such a huge advocate for education."

With "The Wonder Years" star, best-selling author and mathematician possibly asking contestants questions, get ready for an answer like:

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do multiplication because, uh, some . . . people out there in our nation don't have calculators or enough fingers and toes and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education in numbers math like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our numbers education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, where they are especially good with numerical mathemication, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children."

* It's every conservative's dream: President Obama is taking a hike.

People magazine reports that while Obama is on his climate-change tour of the Arctic, he will trek through the Alaskan wilderness with Bear Grylls for an upcoming episode of the adventurer's reality show, "Running Wild."

And another stereotype goes down hard.

Our only advice to the president: If you hear a helicopter and Sarah Palin screaming, "There's a wolf!" run, Obama, run.

- Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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