Why Lil Wayne’s Alliance With Trump Makes Perfect Sense

When the Trump administration announced its collaboration with Ice Cube on a so-called “Platinum Plan” for Black America two weeks ago, the automatic sarcastic response on Twitter was, “Who will be the next rapper to support Trump?” (Although, the rapper claims somewhat dubiously that he doesn’t endorse the president.) Like every meme on the internet that eventually becomes a part of our increasingly strange reality, a domino effect of men in hip-hop publicly courting the Republican incumbent transpired over a short amount of time.

A week after the Ice Cube announcement, 50 Cent casually took to Instagram to tell his 26.2 million followers to vote for Trump due to Biden’s proposed tax rates (he recently rescinded his endorsement). Lil Pump did the same, expressing his fiscal concerns with a lot more profanities and a Photoshopped image of him shaking Trump’s hand. And most recently, on Thursday night, Lil Wayne tweeted out an uncharacteristically formal statement about his meeting with the president.

“Just had a great meeting with @realdonaldtrump @potus,” he tweeted. “Besides what he’s done so far with criminal reform, the platinum plan is going to give the community real ownership. He listened to what we had to say today and assured he will and can get it done.”

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