New Yorker: Here's how Paste BN will cover Kanye's 2020 election

The cover illustrations in the New Yorker magazine have a unique ability to tap into the zeitgeist of the moment while also acknowledging something timeless in American culture.

Next week's cover is no different. In "2020 Vision," the illustrator Barry Blitt puts a new twist on the historic headline. (And yes, that's a Paste BN that Kanye West is holding.)

West, the performer and uber-celebrity, said last Sunday during the MTV music awards that he's running for president in 2020, a show of bravado unmatched by anyone except, perhaps, 2016 candidate Donald Trump.

As if the premise needs explaining, illustrator Barry Blitt says, "When one considers Mr. West, it doesn’t take a whole lot of imagination to be reminded of another scrappy kid who won the Presidency, back in 1948, against all odds. The press wrote him off, too. That’s right—Harry Truman.”