Waka Flocka Flame Latest Rapper Supporting Trump For President

Waka Flocka performs onstage at The Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre on September 1, 2023, in Detroit, Michigan. | Supply: Aaron J. Thornton / Getty

While the reality is proverbially presupposed to set you free, the other has seemingly occurred for the most recent rapper to specific help for Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy.

Waka Flocka Flame on Monday afternoon turned the latest member of the hip-hop group to publicly endorse Trump in what’s seemingly a continued development from the 2020 election.

With none rationalization, Waka Flocka Flame took to the social media app previously often called Twitter to let his feeling be identified with a short put up that merely mentioned “TRUMP2024.”

The put up was appreciated greater than 40,000 instances.

Trump’s marketing campaign shortly embraced the endorsement and posted a graphic to social media displaying the candidate and the rapper standing subsequent to one another with a message proudly studying: “ENDORSED BY WAKA FLOCKA FLAME.”

Whereas different rappers have additionally made no secret of their obvious affection for Trump, Waka Flocka Flame’s social media put up stood in stark distinction to at least one from 2015 when Trump was first working for president. In that occasion, as one social media person reminded, Waka Flocka Flame tweeted fairly the totally different sentiment: “F*ck Donald J. Trump.”

It was not instantly clear why Waka Flocka Flame had the political change of coronary heart, however his acknowledged help for Trump’s 2024 run got here one week after fellow rapper Sexyy Purple mentioned throughout an interview that she was additionally firmly behind the four-times criminally indicted former president.

In that occasion, Sexyy Purple defined the motivation behind her endorsement of Trump.

After saying Trump had help “within the ‘hood,” Sexyy Purple mentioned he was revered partly due to the “free cash” from pandemic stimulus checks and presidential jail sentence commutations and pardons.

“We’d like him again, ‘trigger them checks? Oooh, yeah, them stimulus checks,” Sexyy Purple mentioned. “Trump, we miss you.”

Sexyy Purple and Waka Flocka Flame are merely the most recent rappers to supply variety phrases for Trump. The rapper previously often called Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Ice Dice however, a rising variety of rappers have responded to Trump’s legal indictments with a “wave of endorsements,” because the New York Put up put it.

Rapper Kodak Black, whose jail sentence was commuted by Trump in 2020, not too long ago was proven in a video claiming America wants Trump “in workplace endlessly.”

In April, rapper Swae Lee of the award-winning hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd praised Trump for pardoning rappers and mentioned the previous president is “tapped in” for releasing rapper Kodak Black and pardoning Lil Wayne.

He mentioned he’d “positively go along with Trump over Biden for positive” within the 2024 election if the 2 sq. off once more.

The acknowledged help for Trump comes a couple of month after the previous president claimed with out proof that polling confirmed his help amongst Black folks has quadrupled and even quintupled since his mugshot was made public following a collection of arrests this 12 months.

Nevertheless, knowledge launched weeks later by the Pew Analysis Heart confirmed that Trump’s help amongst Black folks had risen considerably because the 2020 election and stood at round 20%.