Ice Cube has been in the hot seat since Donald Trump’s senior campaign advisor Katrina Pierson thanked him on Twitter for his input on Trump’s Platinum Plan earlier this month.
The tweet brought to light the N.W.A legend’s behind-the-scenes work with the administration, angering many of his fans but also garnering support from conservative commentator Tomi Lahren, Candace Owens and Pierson who welcomed Cube to the red side.
On October 17, Cube appeared on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time show in an attempt to clear the air and explained he went to both the Joe Biden and Trump parties with his Contract With Black America initiative (CWBA), but only Trump took him up on the offer. Biden’s campaign allegedly told Cube to wait until after the November 3 election.
But according to Congressman and Biden’s campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond, Cube isn’t telling the truth. Richmond asserted during a recent radio interview with The Joe Madison Show, “Let me be crystal clear. That did not happen.”
Cube appeared to shut that notion down quickly and demanded receipts from Richmond on Tuesday (October 27), writing, “Instead of going back and forth Congressman, please release the Zoom meeting so the world can see what was said by all.”
But Richmond insisted Cube was simply told to flesh out his proposal.
“I like the fact that Ice Cube is getting engaged in policy,” Richmond added. “I think that is a good thing, however, once you embark on getting into it, one, you have to be truthful, but two, you have an obligation, I think, to see it through and to be thorough with it. Our plan is very thorough. I won’t say he has a skeleton plan, but he has an outline of things, he has an outline of things that should be done.
“It’s not as comprehensive as our plan. And so that’s what we told him, and the offer to stay engaged was not, ‘we’ll talk to you after the election.’ It went like this: ‘Here’s my cell number, anything else you want to talk about on this plan or anything you think, you know, we need to talk about further, just pick up the phone and call.”
Ice Cube Shoots Down The Notion He 'Endorsed' Donald Trump
The Platinum Plan is a proposal that includes prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan and Antifa as terrorist organizations, making Juneteenth a federal holiday and efforts to bolster Black economic prosperity, work Cube is evidently extremely passionate about — and understandably so.
As Cube weathered the seemingly endless barrage of criticism, he let people know he’s willing to work with anybody in power to ensure his CWBA is taken seriously, particularly when it comes to the wealth gap in the United States.
“Black progress is a bipartisan issue,” he explained in tweet. “When we created the Contract With Black America we excepted to talk to both sides of the isle. Talking truth to power is part of the process. I will advise anybody on the planet who has the power to help Black Americans close the enormous wealth gap.”
Very interesting.
Democrats are LIARS just like Joe Biden.
Republicans lie way more and their scandals cost more lives and money than any generation can continue to afford. Look what the Reagan,Bush Sr, Bush Jr, and Trump have done to the country already. They’ve completely gutted it. I rather have a democratic president in office who has a conscious that an immoral money hungry idiot who strives to be a dictator.
Fun FACT:
Democrats had MAJORITY in Senate and House under Reagan and George H.W. Bush presidencies so DEMOCRAT WROTE ALL THE LAWS under their presidencies. Certain Democrat with the name Joe Biden was writing all the drug, crime, sentencing, prison laws under Reagan and George H.W. Bush and continued this under Bill Clinton too for the first 2 years culminating in the 1994 crime bill.
Putin is pleased with your pledge to make america a broken place again and idiots like you are blindly doing to the work for him.
You’re really from Russia.
Shouldn’t u b at Trump’s rally freezing 2 death waiting on your king?
joe biden is the white joe budden so fuck him! WLM! Trump2020
Obviously, you’re a bit because that sentence made no damn sense. Why and how can you even compare the two? You really can’t. Why are white lives any different than anyone elses. You’re a troll bot.
U saying only white lives matter? Don’t think so
This is hip hop news
Don’t know what Cube has done for hip hop son?
Kill the son shit u not from ny and im grown…better ? What have u did for hip hop cuz u not hip hop news this shit at the least dealing wit real issues
“It’s not as comprehensive as our plan.”
what does it matter if its AS comprehensive as your plan? and what is your plan? we still don’t know because ya have yet to put it out! you know what trump did?? he put forward the platinum plan and we can all read it for ourselves. say what you want about it, at least we know trump has a plan for black people. what is biden’s???
“And so that’s what we told him, and the offer to stay engaged was not, ‘we’ll talk to you after the election.’ It went like this: ‘Here’s my cell number, anything else you want to talk about on this plan or anything you think, you know, we need to talk about further, just pick up the phone and call.”
cedric ain’t slick, i see how hes trying to word things. while hes not admitting to telling cube they’ll talk after the election, what cedric said here this is just a around about way of telling cube you’ll talk to him later to brush him off. why can’t you people talk to him further with his plan as is?? and mind you, biden and trump people both contacted cube, and you don’t see cedric denying that part.
nah, cedric is trying to save face here to defend why cube was able to talk to trump adminstration and was able to get them to pull a couple of things from CWBA and put it into the platinum plan, but biden and democrats did not do the same.
like cube said, release the zoom so we can see what was really said word for word
I remember when Cypress Hill aired out Cube for stealing their song/lyrics. Good actor tho
you all going to put make up on your bodies and have interracial relationships so shut the fuck up.
you will all wear makeup all over your bodies and enter interracial marriages and have interracial children so everyone shut the fuck up.