Elijah Daniel (of Elijah & Christine YouTube fame) "was looking for the easiest political office to hold," he told Cosmopolitan.com via email. "I just honestly couldn't think of a better title to hold than mayor of Hell." So! He went ahead and did just that. On August 30, after calling different small towns across the country, he ended up holding the position of mayor of Hell, Michigan. About an hour later, he was kicked out of office ... for a heterosexual ban. :)

In a now-viral tweetstorm, he explained: "I love straights, but my #1 priority is the safety of my town. Until the heterosexual threat has been reviewed we cannot allow them to enter."

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As of today, August 30th, 2017 I am the legal mayor of Hell, Michigan. This is real. I am the mayor of Hell. pic.twitter.com/J7fuaLnFKV — elijah daniel (@elijahdaniel) August 30, 2017

Thirty minutes after the declaration, he was impeached and his access to Hell was revoked. Still, Daniel regrets nothing. "The whole thing was a Hell of a good time," he explained. "I wasn't paid to say that but I do hope they use it as a slogan."

Daniel said, for the most part, "people understood that obviously I can't ban a sexuality from a town and that it was satire based off Trump's travel ban and his ban of transgenders in the army."

Read the entire saga on his Twitter here. Until then, all future mayors of Hell, Daniel has a message for you: "The job can be tough, but they have to just stick to it and together we will Make Hell Great Again.

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