Nick Cannon calls Democrats the Ku Klux Klan and says he supports Trump’s second-term agenda.
Nick Cannon just made his political stance clear on his internet talk show, and neither major party is satisfied.
On a recent episode of “Big Drive,” the entertainer dished on the Democratic Party’s historical baggage while praising Donald Trump’s second term while sitting across from model and political commentator Amber Rose.
The conversation moved quickly, with Cannon laying out his unfiltered thoughts on America’s two-party system and where he stands politically.
Ross claims Democrats “don’t care about people of color” when he proposes switching to Republican politics
Cannon offers his own historical perspective.
“People don’t know that the Democratic Party is the party of the Ku Klux Klan,” he said, adding that the Republicans were the ones who actually liberated enslaved people under Abraham Lincoln.
He went a step further, citing Du Bois’s famous criticism of American politics, calling the two parties just “one evil party with two different names.”
While he now clearly feels Trump’s energy, it’s this skepticism on both sides that keeps him from fully committing to either camp.
Cannon’s enthusiasm for a second Trump term is palpable.
“M############ is cleaning house,” he said, describing Trump as someone who “is doing what he said he was going to do.”
He even joked about the “Gulf of America” and Trump’s alleged “$5 million bottle service fee to enter the country,” suggesting he’s paying attention to the headlines and finding humor in the chaos.
Cannon’s comments sparked discussion about his political evolution, especially given his past criticism of Trump.
Historically, Cannon has a point about the Democratic Party’s relationship with the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction, although the overall picture is more complicated.
Southern Democrats of the post-Civil War era were definitely associated with white supremacist groups, and they continued to oppose racial equality until the 1950s.
The Republican Party was indeed founded by anti-slavery activists, and Lincoln did sign the Emancipation Proclamation in 1861, freeing slaves in non-Union states.
The Thirteenth Amendment was passed by the House of Representatives in 1865, abolishing slavery nationwide and subsequently ratified by the states.
But here’s the thing: The Democratic Party: In a dramatic realignment in the 1960s, Southern Democrats known as the “Dixiecrats” abandoned their positions and switched to the Republican Party.
What’s interesting about Cannon’s perspective is that he doesn’t try to identify either party as its own.
He positioned himself as a free thinker who saw through the political arena, which is exactly what Du Bois said in 1956.
Whether that stance will continue or shift again remains to be seen, but for now he has made it clear that he respects what Trump has done while maintaining serious doubts about the entire system.
