Nick Cannon He stated that he is “along” with the President Donald Trump and described the Democrats as “part of the KKK.”
“People don’t know that the Democrats are the KKK party [Ku Klux Klan],” Cannon, 45, said on the Friday, March 27, episode of his show The Great Drive. “People don’t know that the Republicans are the party that freed the slaves.”
During the Civil War, President Abraham LincolnThe Republican Party pushed to end slavery. In the 1960s, several notable segregationists were “Dixiecrats” — including Sen. Strom Thurmond – switched their allegiance from the Democratic Party to the GOP.
The story came up when Cannon was talking to him about politics The Great Drive guest Amber Roseself-described former “liberal” Democrat. Rose switched parties to become a Republican years ago and endorsed Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
“Democrats don’t care about black people,” Rose told Cannon The Big Drivee. “They don’t care about people of color and Republicans do. That’s a misconception.”
“You and I have strong opinions. You speak freely,” Cannon replied. “To be honest, I am not signing up for any team WEB Du Bois when he said this, ‘There is no such thing as two groups. It’s one bad team with two different names.’”
Du Bois was a sociologist and civil rights pioneer who fought for equal rights for Black people in the late 1800s and throughout the 1900s. He died aged 95 in 1963 – just one year shy of the Presidency Lyndon B. Johnsonmember of the Democratic Alliance, signs the Human Rights Act into law. (The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made racial discrimination illegal and prohibited employers from discriminating against job seekers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.)
Rose, 42, said he voted for Trump in 2024 because “we had two options and he was the best.”
Nick Cannon in February 2026.
Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET“Right now, I agree with a lot of what he’s doing,” Rose said, with Cannon agreeing, “[He’s] cleaning the house. He did what he said he would do.”
“I f *** with Trump,” Cannon added later in the interview while praising the president for changing the name “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf America”.
It’s unclear what Cannon and Rose said The Great Drive the episode was recorded. In February, Trump, 79, caused controversy by sharing an AI-generated video of the former president. Barack and the first wife Michelle Obama like monkeys during Black History Month.
Nick Cannon spoke candidly about his attendance at various parties hosted by now-disgraced Sean “Diddy” Combs on “The Breakfast Club” radio show on Friday, October 11 – admitting that he was a “kid” around “16, 17” when he first went to one in New York City. “I live my truth,” my father […]
Amid allegations that he supported the racist video, Trump refused to apologize and told reporters he “didn’t make a mistake” when he spoke about Air Force One. The White House then accused a staffer of “mistakenly” posting the video and removed it entirely.
That same month, Barack, 64, told Brian Tyler Cohen that the scandal was a prime example of the “comedy show going on in social media and television.”
“[Many Americans] find this behavior very troubling … There is no shame in this for people who used to feel like you had to have some kind of behavior and sense of propriety and respect for the office,” Obama said.
