Overview
- In a Big Drive episode released Friday, Nick Cannon told guest Amber Rose that Democrats are the “party of the KKK” and said he “f***s with” President Trump, calling him “cleaning house.”
- Cannon said he does not back either party and cited W. E. B. Du Bois’s line that the two-party system is “one evil party with two different names.”
- Fact-checkers and historians pushed back, noting the KKK was formed by Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee, and that applying its 1860s ties to today’s parties is misleading.
- Coverage spanned outlets across the spectrum, with right-leaning sites amplifying his praise for Trump and others emphasizing historical context and corrections, as social media lit up with criticism.
- Reporters added context on party realignment, explaining how many Southern Democrats opposed civil rights before mid‑20th‑century shifts that left modern party coalitions very different from their 1860s roots.