Waka Flocka Flame has made a request of his presidential candidate of choice, Donald Trump, and it has gotten pushback from a number of fans who found it confusing and bizarre.
The Atlanta rapper posted to X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday (January 20) with a request for Trump: that he get rid of Columbus Day.
“Dear Trump abolish Christopher Columbus Day,” Waka wrote. “As a what’s called Blackman in United States this holiday is a spit in our faces… Thanks from Waka Flocka Flame and the People!!!”
You can see the message below.
The request struck observers as unusual for a number of reasons. First, Trump is no longer in office.
“Bruh he not even the damn president!” one person replied, while another said: “Last thing that private citizen, who can’t abolish holidays, is thinking about is Columbus Day. He’s trying to stay out of jail. Focus, dude.”
Second, while the president can declare a day a public holiday by proclamation, an official national holiday can only be created by the legislature.
“Dude, the president can’t declare or ‘abolish’ a federal holiday. Declaration of federal holidays are done by an act of Congress,” one informed user pointed out. “You honestly could’ve Googled this.”
Third, Trump has been particularly vociferous in his defense of Columbus Day. In 2020 he made headlines for his “Proclamation on Columbus Day,” which took shots at “radical activists [who] have sought to undermine Christopher Columbus’s legacy.”
“Rather than learn from our history, this radical ideology and its adherents seek to revise it, deprive it of any splendor, and mark it as inherently sinister,” he wrote. “They seek to squash any dissent from their orthodoxy.
“We must not give in to these tactics or consent to such a bleak view of our history. We must teach future generations about our storied heritage, starting with the protection of monuments to our intrepid heroes like Columbus.”
There has been a decades-long effort, going back to the 1970s, to replace the federal celebration of Columbus with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. In 2021, Joe Biden issued a presidential proclamation about Indigenous Peoples’ Day, which is celebrated on the same day as Columbus Day.
He has continued to do so every year since. However, Columbus Day remains a federal holiday.
All of this led to a barrage of criticism, with people referring to Waka Flocka Flame as a “dummy” and wondering if he’d been hacked.
The Flockaveli rapper initially endorsed Donald Trump last October, tweeting “TRUMP2024.”
He later shared a photo of him standing next to the controversial businessman-turned-politician in front of a presidential seal, and made it his new profile picture.
This came after Flocka publicly criticized Trump in both 2015 and 2017.
Dont like the holiday ? Then dont celebrate it. If you get the day off from work, go volunteer at a homeless shelter that day. If you get holiday pay, donate it. You wont find any white people trying to cancel any holiday, including MLK or Juneteenth.
1. Yes, white people have absolutely tried to cancel MLK day. IN fact, there was a push amongst white supremecist to make it James Earl Ray Day (he was the man that killed MLK). 2. Why do we celebrate Columbus in the first place? He didn’t “discover” shit. He wasn’t even the first explorer to reach the US, that would be Ponce De Leon. Columbus landed in Puerto Rico, not the mainland.
Columbus made four transatlantic voyages. He traveled primarily to the Caribbean, including the Bahamas, Cuba, Santo Domingo, and Jamaica, and in his latter two voyages traveled to the coasts of eastern Central America and northern South America. Colombus is celebrated in USA because it was his voyages that ended up leasing to the British colonists coming to this land, and eventually starting new nations (the 13 colonies). The only idiots trying to cancel MLK Jr day are some fringe losers who nobody at all takes slightly seriously.
Honestly, I’m with Waka on this one. Fuck Columbus. He was a disease infested booty bandit.
Leave USA if you hate Colombus, cause bone of us would be here otherwise. Stop being a colonizer and give land back if that’s what you believe in.
None of us would be here without Columbus “discovering” Puerto Rico the Virgin Islands? Because Pone De Leon was the first to discover the mainland US. Also, to think that in the half century that has passed since then that NOBODY would have ever sailed west far enough to run into the US is absurd.
Leave the US 🤣 that says alot. Thx for exposing yourself bozo 🤡
Nah…. we built this country and the indigenous were already here. We ain’t going nowhere. But Columbus can go to hell and rot. Dude didn’t know where tf he was anyway.
By “we” built this country, you mean Europeans, right? Agricultural slaves built up rich plantation owners. They didn’t build the things we see with our eyes today. Slaves didn’t build the infrastructure, they enriched greedy farmers. Yes, there were black workers too. But it was mainly Europeans who constructed the infrastructure we see. And when you say “built”, we’re talking physichal.
Of course “we ain’t goin nowhere”. Africa is a shithole. God bless the white man for creating such a nice society for us to sponge off of! I thank the all might white lord every day for directing the white men to save us from the horrible place known as Africa! They saved us all!!! This is why, none of us would EVER go back to our homeland!
i’m with FETTY on this one
#Trump2024MAGA🇺🇸
Everyone knows Columbus was not the “first” to discover America. He is just known for celebrating what would become known as Thanksgiving with the Indians (he honestly thought he landed in India) And we celebrate Columbus day cuz he is that damn famous even if he wasnt the first. The first people to land in America were the Vikings somewhere in or around Canada. Maybe we could have a Viking day and celebrate our Nordic ancestry. Im sure woke America would love that, lol
Must be painful to be as stupid as you. We should put you in a senior home where they like to help people with dementia.
Very curious to know what hip hop artists you tend to lean towards given your hard right political views.
Man, I have very conservative views and enjoy leftist artists too. I’m a conservative because I don’t trust the government, want it to be smaller, want to pay less to the government from my hard work, don’t buy into the LGBT Mafia, love guns and freedom of speech, all things the left currently are against. Left wants to outlaw lots of different types of gun. Left loves censorship. Left loves taxes. Left loves LGBT. Left loves big government.
@Fax you’re reasons for being conservative don’t make sense. The right claims they want small government, but who are the ones trying to be inside the doctors office with a woman? Who are the ones trying to ban books in libraries? Who are the ones that are trying to ban collegiate level courses? Saying you want to pay less in taxes…. the republican tax plan has 99% of the cuts go to the wealthiest people in this country. So you may get a $20 per month break while some billionaire is saying hundreds of millions in taxes….. only for us to further go into debt, thus your taxes will need to be raised again to help combat the debt. The last two POTUS presidents left a crashed economy on their way out, and the tax cuts have a lot to do with that. Republicans have our military budget larger than the next 20 biggest militaries in the world, 19 of which are our allies, and a giant portion of that money is overpriced crap to satisfy the military industrial complex. Guns will never be banned in this country… there are too many of them there is virtually no chance of getting rid of any Amendments let alone the 2nd most popular one in the country. So you’re buying into the scare tactics of “they’re coming for our guns”. There should be exceptions to this… you shouldn’t be able to get a high powered riffle that is essentially a machine gun… what purpose does that serve? Can’t use it for hunting. It’s not a great tool to use for home protection. So it’s purpose is either “it’s fun” or “mass killing machine”. You don’t need to love LGBT people, but you should be pro equal rights for any human. Not too long ago in this country you didn’t have the same rights because of the color of your skin, so basing someone’s freedoms on who they are in a relationship with is pretty fucked up as well. You seem wildly informed about politics and are just repeating shit you hear on Fox News. Ask yourself… what big legislative efforts have the Republicans accomplished in the past 10 years?
What a dummy. He’s asking the guy, who’s no longer president…but had a bust of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office while he was….to get rid of Columbus Day. I mean, what should anyone expect from a guy who named himself after a muppet’s catchphrase? Anyone Black man who supports Dump should call themselves an N-word. Because a Black man would never support that dude.
Agreed. You ain’t black unless you bow to democrats. Lyndon B Johnson said kt right: “I’ll have these ni$$ers voting Democrat the next 100 years”. He was a very smart man, and luckily, we still have power, thanks to you. We appreciate it, but no, we don’t see you as an equal. We see you as a means to obtain power.
We also must stop Christmas, Halloween, and Easter! Only a self hating black person would celebrate such evil holidays. You’re an uncle Tom house n!$$@ if you celebrate any if the three. We also need to end race mixing. I know white women are very good looking, and out black queens are very gross and ratchet, but hold your nose and put a bag over they heads and we can keep it going. I’m guilty of going for white women, since they look so much better and don’t smell like poop.