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Ice Cube is Still Confused About Backlash From Meeting With Donald Trump
Ice Cube is doubling down on his plan on Twitter.
In the last few weeks, Ice Cube has faced critique on social media after he revealed he met with Donald Trump to discuss the president's "Platinum Plan" for Black America. On Thursday morning, he doubled down on his actions, confused as to why he's under fire.
"Let me get this straight," he wrote, "I get the president of the United States to agree to put over half a trillion dollars of capital in the Black Community (without an endorsement) and Niggas are mad at me? Have a nice life."
\u201cLet me get this straight, I get the president of the United States to agree to put over half a trillion dollars of capital in the Black Community (without an endorsement) and Niggas are mad at me?\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02...have a nice life.\u201d— Ice Cube (@Ice Cube) 1604581932
Organizers like Deray McKesson and journalists like Adam Serwer and Ebro Darden replied to Cube's tweet.
\u201cTrump didn\u2019t even say he was putting up $500 billion. He literally just says he\u2019ll try to grow the *already* $500 billion federal contracting space \u2014 and doesn\u2019t even say he\u2019ll commit any of that money to black people.\n\nIce Cube got played.\u201d— deray (@deray) 1604584275
\u201cBut you know he was never actually gonna do that shit, don't you?\u201d— Naima Cochrane (@Naima Cochrane) 1604587771
As expected, the responses to the tweet didn't see it for Cube's stance. "We love you," one user wrote, "but we have absolutely no reason to trust him to live up to his end of the bargain. His meeting with you was a move to sew distrust and disorder within the Black Community. Also, the timing was terrible."
\u201c@icecube We love you but we have absolutely no reason to trust him to live up to his end of the bargain. His meeting with you was a move to sew distrust and disorder within the Black Community. Also, the timing was terrible\u201d— Ice Cube (@Ice Cube) 1604581932
"All money isn't good money," said another user. "We can do it another way. We don't need the white man to bail us out. We just gotta come together as the Black community and figure it out on our own."
\u201c@icecube All money isn't good money. We can do it another way. We don't need the White man to bail us out. We just gotta come together as the entire black community and figure it out on our own\u201d— Ice Cube (@Ice Cube) 1604581932
\u201c\u2018lemme get this straight. i get Lucy to agree to FINALLY stop pulling the football away before i kick it, and yall mad at me??!?!\u2019\u201d— tracy clayton jr the 3rd (@tracy clayton jr the 3rd) 1604586950
In recent weeks, Saturday Night Live poked fun at Cube, depicting him (played by Kenan Thompson) with a signature Trump Make America Great Again cap on. "Trump's got a new Platinum Plan," said Chris Redd--who played Lil Wayne in the skit. "That's right," Thompson replied. "If you got a platinum record, you can plan on him doing a photo op with you!"
"F--- you SNL," Cube replied on Twitter, "trying to reduce me to greed."