27 October 2020

Rapper 50 Cent retracts Donald Trump support after mockery from ex-girlfriend Chelsea Handler

American rapper 50 Cent has renounced his support for Donald Trump after ex-girlfriend Chelsea Handler offered to pay his taxes in exchange for switching allegiance to Joe Biden.

The 45-year-old posted on Instagram last week a screenshot of tax proposals by Joe Biden which would supposedly see some Americans pay up to 62 per cent.

Alongside the image, 50 Cent - real name Curtis James Jackson III - told people to vote for Trump and insisted he did not care that Trump ‘doesn’t like black people’.

This led Jackson’s ex-partner Handler to respond by promising to pay his taxes in the hope it would make him re-evaluate his vote in the election.

The 45-year-old comedian then went on Jimmy Fallon’s talk show and offered to take Jackson for ‘another spin’ in exchange for a vote for Biden.

Handler told her ex-partner she would pay his taxes in exchange for him voting for Biden (NurPhoto/PA Images)

This led to Jackson taking to Instagram once more to say: “F*** Donald Trump, i never liked him.”

Last week, Trump’s son Eric tweeted an image of Jackson and fellow American rapper Ice Cube wearing Trump hats, a picture which was quickly confirmed to have been photoshopped.

Ice Cube then responded to Eric Trump, dismissing the picture as a fake and forcing the president’s son to quickly take down the post.

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