Nick Cannon went on his Big Drive Show on March 27 with Amber Rose and said what everyone heard: "I f--k with Trump." He called Democrats "the party of the KKK," praised Trump for "cleaning house," and agreed with Rose that "Republicans care more about people of color." He also said "I don't subscribe to either party" and invoked W.E.B. Du Bois's 1956 line about there being "one evil party with two different names."

1. He Said What a Lot of People Think (Conservative Media, Amber Rose, MAGA Welcome Wagon)

Another Black celebrity woke up. How many more before people stop pretending this is an anomaly?

Cannon joins a pattern that's getting hard to dismiss. Kanye West endorsed Trump in 2024. Nicki Minaj called herself Trump's "number one fan" at the Trump Accounts Summit in January 2025. Snoop Dogg performed at the pre-inauguration Crypto Ball. Now the host of The Masked Singer and creator of Wild 'N Out is saying the same thing. This isn't one guy having a moment. It's a trend with a trajectory.

The core pitch is that Republicans care more about people of color—and Cannon isn't the only one saying it. Amber Rose, a former self-described liberal Democrat who switched to Republican and endorsed Trump in 2024, made the same argument on the show. Cannon's agreement gives it the reach of his platform: Wild 'N Out, The Masked Singer, LEGO Masters, and a media empire worth an estimated $100 million.

2. This Is Nonsense (KOLUMN Magazine, Historians, Progressive Critics)

Calling Democrats "the party of the KKK" is technically true about 1860 and completely false about 2026. That's the point.

Calling Democrats "the party of the KKK" swaps contrarian certainty for historical rigor. KOLUMN Magazine's analysis, published March 29, acknowledged that Cannon's claim draws from a real fragment—the Democratic Party of the slave South did house defenders of slavery and Jim Crow. But it strips the chronology. The Southern Strategy, the civil rights realignment, the wholesale migration of segregationist Democrats to the Republican Party in the 1960s-70s—all of it vanishes. What's left sounds bold but is historically illiterate.

The "both parties are bad" framing does specific work. Cannon cited W.E.B. Du Bois's 1956 line about one evil party with two names. But Du Bois was a lifelong socialist who eventually joined the Communist Party in 1961—his critique of both parties came from the far left, not from someone praising a Republican president for "cleaning house." Borrowing Du Bois to legitimize a Trump endorsement is the kind of selective quoting that sounds intellectual and collapses under scrutiny.

3. Follow the Money (Skeptics, Lizzo, Black Progressive Media)

When the upside of going MAGA is a Fox News hug and the downside is a TheGrio headline, the math is obvious.

Going MAGA is more profitable than staying neutral—and everybody knows it. Lizzo put it bluntly: "You're about to see an influx of people who see that it is more profitable and more beneficial to join that side." Cannon hosts two shows on Fox—The Masked Singer and LEGO Masters. Fox protected him during his 2020 antisemitism controversy when ViacomCBS fired him. The network that kept him employed is the same one that celebrated his Trump comments. The incentive structure isn't subtle.

This is a man with a pattern of provocative statements. In 2020, Cannon promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories on his podcast, claiming the Jewish community was responsible for "the majority of wickedness that goes on across the globe." ViacomCBS fired him. He apologized, said he spent nine months learning. Now he's calling Democrats the KKK on a different show. When Nicki Minaj appeared at the Trump Accounts Summit, Joy Reid called it using a Black celebrity as a "house pet" to give MAGA "cultural cool." The critique applies here too.

Where This Lands

Cannon said "I f--k with Trump" and also "I don't subscribe to either party." Whether you hear a genuine independent thinker or a Fox host doing the math depends on whether you weight the words or the paycheck. The pattern is real either way—more Black celebrities are publicly aligning with Trump than at any point in recent memory. Whether that reflects a genuine political shift or a market opportunity is the question nobody's answering honestly.

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