Nick Cannon called Democrats the KKK party, said he f***s with Trump — and still refused to pick a side.
Nick Cannon didn’t show up to play it safe. Not with Democrats. Not with Republicans. Nobody.
On a new episode of his “Big Drive” show — dropped Friday — Cannon sat down with Amber Rose, who recently made headlines for switching to the Republican party. And instead of staying in his lane, Cannon just… went there and basically torched both parties in one sitting.
Look, I’ll be real — most celebrities pick a side and stay there. Nick Cannon didn’t do that.
On ‘Big Drive,’ he called out the Democratic Party’s historical ties to the Ku Klux Klan. And here’s the thing — he’s not just making stuff up. Democrats in the post-Civil War South had serious ties to the Klan and fought against racial equality well into the 1950s. Cannon also pointed out that it was the Republican Party — under Abraham Lincoln — that actually abolished slavery.
Now, worth saying: Democrats didn’t *found* the KKK, despite what you may have heard. And the party flipped politically in the 1960s when the old Southern Democrats — the “Dixiecrats” — walked out. So it’s complicated history. But Cannon’s not wrong about the early chapters.
He also pulled out a quote from W.E.B. Du Bois — the sociologist and Pan-African activist — who said back in 1956 that he didn’t believe in two political parties at all. His take? They’re basically one evil organization just wearing two different masks. Cannon ran with that.
That’s the thing. When a Black entertainer with his platform invokes Du Bois to reject *both* parties on a podcast — people are going to pay attention. Whether they agree or not.
Not gonna lie — the Trump part is where it gets real.
Cannon flat out said he likes Donald Trump. Which is… a shift. Because this is the same Nick Cannon who once called Trump a “bully” — specifically after Trump publicly said Heidi Klum wasn’t a “10.” That wasn’t a quiet comment. That was Cannon on record.
And now? He’s saying he f***s with Trump.
But yeah — before Republicans start celebrating — Cannon made it pretty clear he’s not picking a team. He’s not pledging to either side. He’s doing the one thing that gives political strategists a headache on both sides: thinking for himself.
Now here’s where it gets messy.
Amber Rose already caught major backlash when she went public with her Republican switch. Cannon echoed that same vibe — without fully committing — and that’s going to sit uncomfortably with a lot of his fanbase.
The Democratic Party has long counted on Black voters as a core bloc. Any high-profile Black voice openly questioning that loyalty — even casually — spreads fast. Cannon knows this. He said it anyway.
So does this start a bigger conversation? Or does it just become a clip that gets clipped, stripped of context, and used by everyone to prove their own point?
Probably the second one.
Nick Cannon did something most celebs are too calculated to do — he threw the script out entirely. Calling Democrats the KKK party AND saying he f***s with Trump in the same breath? That’s not a PR move. That’s a man who genuinely doesn’t care about the optics. Respect it or hate it, but you can’t say it’s not his actual opinion. The Du Bois quote was a nice touch too — this isn’t just noise, the man actually did his homework.
Whether his audience sticks around for this version of Nick Cannon though… that’s a whole other question.
