Nick Cannon and model Amber Rose recently bonded over their lives in the public eye and their mutual support for the MAGA agenda. In a chat on Cannon’s Big Drive podcast on Friday (March 27), the pair went for a spin in a beach cruiser as Cannon asked Rose about her support for President Donald Trump — Rose spoke at the 2024 Republican National Convention — and Cannon noted that he used to have former President Barack Obama’s BlackBerry number, but is now firmly on Team Trump.
Asking Rose if there might be a position for her in Trump’s administration, Cannon noted that the OnlyFans model “100%” has the president’s ear. After Rose, once best known for hosting her empowering Slut Walk protests, expressed her opinion that “left-wing liberal” feminism “took us back,” she shared her opinion that “it’s not illegal to be racist” and that she is a “former liberal, former Democrat.” Cannon backed her up and added that people “change their views and opinions” sometimes.
Earlier in the chat, he appeared to confirm that his views have also changed, after he asked Rose if she switched parties because “the bag has got so intense” and her earnings so heavy that she became part of the “elite.” Rose said no, opining, “Democrats don’t care about Black people and they don’t care about people of color,” as Cannon laughed at what Rose dubbed the “misconception” about the GOP.
“I agree with you 100%,” said multi-hyphenate Cannon, who is a recording artist, radio DJ who and host of The Masked Singer. “People don’t know that the Democrats is the party of the KKK. People don’t know that the Republicans are the party that freed the slaves.” According to Politifact, the racist Ku Klux Klan group attracted many ex-Confederate soldiers after the Civil War, as well as Southerners who opposed Reconstruction, most of whom were Democrats, but the claim that the Democratic Party started the Civil War to preserve slavery and founded the KKK is false. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists and in 1863 Republican President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all the slaves living in Confederate states.
Cannon noted that both he and Rose have “some conservative views,” but that she is just more outspoken than him.
Cannon also said that he actually doesn’t support either major party and that his political North Star is the late historian and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois, whose famous quote about the American political system he paraphrased, “there’s no such thing as two parties. It’s just one evil party with two different names.”
Rose said she voted for Trump because he was “the better option,” describing how she agrees with a lot of the former reality TV star’s policies in his second administration, with Cannon enthusiastically adding, “motherf–ker cleanin’ house! He’s doing what he said he was gonna do!… I f–k with Trump!”
It’s not the first time Cannon has taken a controversial stance. Back in 2020, he was fired by ViacomCBS for statements on his Cannon’s Class podcast that were deemed racist and antisemitic during a conversation with former Public Enemy “Minister of Information” Professor Griff. In the interview, Griff doubled down on his past condemnation of Jewish people and Cannon repeated hateful tropes about alleged Jewish control of the media and banking, comments he later apologized for.
Watch Cannon and Rose discuss their support for MAGA below.
