Nick Cannon shared some pointed opinions about the Democratic Party during a conversation with Amber Rose on a recent episode of his podcast, at one point describing it as the “party of the KKK”.
The Masked Singer presenter also spoke positively about President Donald Trump’s efforts to “clean house” against critics and adversaries, despite saying he doesn’t “subscribe to either party” — remarks that drew heavy backlash from many listeners.
Cannon, 46, sat down with model and right-wing convert Amber Rose, 42, to talk through what they framed as overlapping “conservative views” on his in-car interview show The Big Drive. The exchange prompted one viewer to say they were “hoping this would end with them driving off a cliff.”
Rose steered the discussion toward party politics by arguing that Democrats under figures like former President Barack Obama don’t “care about Black people,” while Republicans do. Cannon then echoed a talking point about Democrats’ historical links to the early Ku Klux Klan — a claim frequently criticized for ignoring the major political realignment that reshaped both parties over the 20th century.
As commonly taught in U.S. history courses, the parties’ ideological coalitions shifted significantly in the mid-1900s, particularly after the civil-rights era and the so-called Southern Strategy.
Over time, Republican campaigns increasingly appealed to white Southern voters who opposed or felt alienated by civil rights reforms and the rollback of Jim Crow segregation. Meanwhile, Democrats — especially amid and after the New Deal — solidified support in many Northern industrial areas and among labor groups.
The shift accelerated during internal Democratic fractures that began in the 1940s, including the rise of pro-segregation “Dixiecrats,” and culminated with prominent Southern Democrats later aligning with the GOP, including Dixiecrat leader Strom Thurmond.
So, while some post-Confederacy Southern Democrats were involved in the earliest era of the KKK, today’s Democratic Party is typically characterized by its eventual break from the segregationist wing that Dixiecrats represented.
Even so, Cannon suggested on the podcast that many people are unaware that the Republican Party — often labeled “the party of Lincoln” — historically backed abolition, at a time when its core support came largely from Northern states and territories.
“People don’t know that the Republicans are the party that freed the slaves,” Cannon said. “I mean, both of you and I have some conservative views. You’re just a little bit more outspoken than I am.”
He continued: “And honestly, I don’t subscribe to either party. I rock with W. E. B. Du Bois, when he said there’s no such thing as two parties. It’s just one evil party with two different names.”
Rose said she voted for Trump in the most recent election and claimed she speaks with him, adding that she’s “not married to any party” but believes Trump was “definitely by far the better option.”
Cannon, however, sounded even more animated while praising the former president’s approach, saying: “Motherf***er’s cleaning house. He’s doing what he said he was gonna do.”
“We got the Gulf of America now,” Cannon added. “He’s like the club. He’s charging a $5 million bottle service fee to get into the country. I f*** with Trump.”
The two also discussed how they say they shifted from progressive politics toward being pro-Trump. Cannon claimed to have once had Obama’s personal phone number, while Rose argued that feminism “ruined marriage” and said her views on abortion changed after seeing a video online.
The episode sparked a wave of criticism from viewers, including one person who wrote that there is “nothing more dangerous than misinformed people with microphones.”
Another commented: “Being rich cant buy you brains.”