Kanye West says he will redesign Donald Trump's Air Force One as a hydrogen 'iPlane'

Both Apple and the president have failed to take the rapper up on the idea

Kanye West says he will work with Apple to make a hydrogen-powered "iPlane" to replace Air Force One.

Neither the president or Apple itself appears to want to take the rapper up on his plan. And the plane that West suggested he wants to use actually appears to have been a concept created by a design student years ago.

But West was clear that he hopes to design the official plane nonetheless. The proposal came during one of the most strange moments of an already bizarre meeting between the rapper and the president in the Oval Office of the White House.

Reaching for his phone – and showing the entire world his worryingly simple passcode in the process – Mr Trump showed the president a picture of what he said was a hydrogen-powered plane that should replace Air Force One.

"This right here is the iPlane 1," he said, though Apple has mostly dropped the naming scheme of the iPhone and the iPad. "This is what our president should be flying.

"If he don't look good, we don't look good," he continued. "This is our president. He has to be the freshest, the flyest" and have "the flyest planes."

He also went on to suggest that he would make it with Apple because it is an "American company", apparently in an endorsement of Donald Trump's commitment to bring manufacturing back to the US. But the current Air Force One – really just a designation that is given to any plane flying the president – is made by Boeing, an American company based in Chicago.

Apple declined to comment on the proposed partnership.