Nick Cannon Labels Democrats the Party of the KKK, Declares Support for Trump

Nick Cannon decided to get political on his show Big Drive, and yeah, he did not tiptoe. The short version: he says he 'f***s with' Donald Trump, calls Democrats 'the party of the KKK,' and cozies up to a very old critique of the two-party system. His guest, Amber Rose, is now proudly Republican and says she voted for Trump in 2024. And because timelines are messy, this all lands alongside Trump’s February blowup over an AI video of the Obamas and Barack Obama’s response. Let’s unpack.

What Cannon and Rose actually said on Big Drive

On the Friday, March 27 episode, Cannon, 45, and Amber Rose, 42, covered a lot of ground fast:

• Cannon said he 'f***s with' President Donald Trump and claimed Democrats are 'the party of the KKK,' adding that Republicans freed the slaves.
• Rose said she used to be a liberal Democrat but switched to the GOP in recent years and endorsed Trump in the 2024 presidential election. Her reasoning: when it came down to two options, he was 'by far the better option.'
• They agreed they share some conservative views, with Cannon saying he doesn’t subscribe to either party and quoting W.E.B. Du Bois to make his point.
• Rose said she agrees with a lot of what Trump is doing 'as of now.' Cannon chimed in that Trump is 'cleaning house' and doing what he promised.
• Later, Cannon doubled down — 'I f*** with Trump' — and praised what he described as the president changing the name of the 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf America.'

'There’s no such thing as two parties. It’s just one evil party with two different names.'

About that history lesson

Cannon’s 'Democrats are the party of the KKK' line is an old talking point, and it pulls from a real but complicated political timeline. Here’s the quick version, minus the spin:

During the Civil War era, Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party pushed to abolish slavery. Decades later, especially by the 1960s, the political coalitions shifted. Several high-profile segregationist Democrats in the South — the 'Dixiecrats' — crossed over to the Republican Party. Senator Strom Thurmond is the go-to example of that shift.

That context is what Cannon was gesturing at, and he framed it with the Du Bois quote above. For reference: W.E.B. Du Bois was a sociologist and civil rights leader who fought for Black equality from the late 1800s into the 1900s. He died at 95 in 1963 — one year before Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed racial segregation and barred employers from discriminating based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

The episode’s timing vs. February’s blowup

It’s not clear exactly when this Big Drive episode was taped. What we do know: in February, Trump, 79, sparked outrage by posting an AI-generated video that depicted former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes — during Black History Month, no less. When pressed, Trump refused to apologize and told reporters aboard Air Force One that he didn’t make a mistake. The White House later said a staffer 'erroneously' shared the video and deleted the post entirely.

Barack Obama, 64, weighed in during a chat with Brian Tyler Cohen, calling the whole thing a perfect snapshot of the current social media circus and saying plenty of Americans find that behavior deeply troubling — especially the lack of basic decorum and respect for the office.

Where Cannon and Rose landed

Rose is all-in on her party switch and her 2024 Trump vote. Cannon says he’s not pledging allegiance to either team but clearly likes what he sees from Trump right now. The conversation mixed personal politics with some fast-and-loose history shorthand, and then nodded at current events that are... not subtle. However you slice it, this was Cannon putting a very loud stake in the ground.