Teddy Riley has responded to a whirlwind of online criticism after showing support for disgraced former President Donald Trump.
On Friday (June 10), the pioneering New Jack Swing icon appeared to pledge his allegiance to Trump on Instagram, in response to the former president’s latest plea of innocence relating to his recent federal indictment.
“I AM AN INNOCENT MAN. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS TOTALLY CORRUPT,” wrote Trump alongside a video. “THIS ELECTION INTERFERENCE & A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Responding to the post, Teddy Riley hit the comments section with a series of strong arm emojis. Immediately, fans chimed in with their discord. “Seriously Teddy? You are on here agreeing with this dude? [face palm emoji],” one user wrote.
According to The Shade Room, Riley’s reason for showing love to Trump is because he owes the controversial politician and businessman a solid for releasing his older brother Lou Hobbs — who was serving a double life sentence — from prison.
The Harlem native went on to claim that the 46th President of the United States has taught him “how to be a free man of this country.” Further, the “No Diggity” crooner claimed “[Trump] can do something amazing for us, because he did it for Africa while he was in office,” while maintaining that everyone has their own beliefs, and this is solely what he believes.
Riley isn’t the first Black celebrity to throw their support behind Trump. In January 2021, Kodak Black became a free man following a last-minute presidential pardon from Donald Trump. The 23-year-old Florida native was in the middle of a 46-month sentence after being convicted of a federal weapons charge in 2019.
“I Want To Thank The President @RealDonaldTrump For His Commitment To Justice Reform And Shortening My Sentence,” he wrote. “I Also Want To Thank Everyone For Their Support And Love. It Means More Than You Will Ever Know. I Want To Continue Giving Back, Learning And Growing. @DanScavino,” Kodak tweeted at the time.
Meanwhile, Lil Wayne who pleaded guilty to a federal weapons charge in December 2020 and was facing up to 10 years in prison, was also granted a “get out of jail free card” shortly before the former POTUS left the Oval Office.
Though, this may have come as no surprise as days prior to the presidential election, Lil Wayne joined fellow rappers, like 50 Cent and Lil Pump, in expressing his support for Trump while posing for a photo with the then Republican candidate.
“Just had a great meeting with @realdonaldtrump @potus. 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,” he tweeted alongside a photo of himself with Trump; capping it off with a hang loose emoji.
Or maybe Dems policies just suck ass, ya think ? Trmp also pardoned Kodak and Weezy.
“Justice Department investigating potential presidential pardon bribery scheme, court records reveal” 🤡
Hip hop loves trump they are correlated. It’s the media and politicians that don’t
Until they found out he hates black folk (unless they’re rich).
Only retards think of Trump as a racist. The guys history throughout his life shows the opposite. And so did his policies. Idc what anyone says, Trump was a great president, and should be president again. EVERYONE was better off. Ethnicity didn’t matter, we all had record low interest rates, good wage growth, low inflation, some criminal justice reform, putting Americans interests over illegal aliens or other nations, and ending decade long wars while starting zero new wars. Good policies. Other Republicans such. All the popular democrats suck, though RFK Jr is a good dude, which is why he’s blackballed by the media.
@😱. #ShutYoDumbAssUp
Jay – Trump and his father were sued by the DOJ in 1973 for housing discrimination because they openly refused to rent to POC. He’s a racist and anyone familiar with him and his companies knows this.
Yeah, and in 2007 Obama was openly against gay marriage, and Biden in the 90s said “I don’t want my kid growing up in a racial jungle” (supporting racial segregation). You’re talking about something 50 years ago. Times change, people change. Talk about relevant, modern things. Policy.
@Davina … 1973 ? 🤡
You’re eating up the bullshit the media feeds you. Why don’t you show or as for proof that he hates black people
You’re eating up the bullshit Trump feeds you. Why don’t you show or as for proof that he won the 2020 election
New Jack Swing State of Mind
Remember Trump and Rudy were (allegedly by multiple sources) selling pardons for 2 mill that they would split, THAT is how everyone in this story was pardoned
Allegedly… so, who exactly made this claim? Is there a SINGLE shred of evidence? And if all it took was $2 mil to get pardoned, I think we would’ve seen thousands of pardons, not hundreds. You’re buying into the “anonymous sources say” BS. It means absolutely nothing without evidence.
U support who you want. Don’t just follow just to be popular. People seem so easily led now it’s scary. Do your own research to find things out. The mainstream media is full of it.