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Rapper Ice Cube slams Trump for fake endorsement: ‘Leave my name out ya mouth’

TO the casual observer, Ice Cube wearing a Donald Trump T-shirt is nothing out of the ordinary.

But for those who know the rapper personally, it’s an insult of the highest order.

The picture of Cube, whose real name is O’Shea Jackson, began circulating on social media last week. It prompted the following, very public reaction.

“I will never endorse a mothaf**** like Trump! EVER!!!” Cube wrote on Twitter.

The doctored image seems harmless enough, but it’s not the only one. Other celebrities appear in pictures endorsing the Republican candidate without their knowledge.

They’re part of a wider campaign by Trump supporters to gather ‘faux endorsements’. It appears nobody is safe.

Taylor Swift’s image was used in a similar way last year. Wearing a Team Trump 2016: Make America Great Again! crop top, the image was shared widely by the Trump faithful. But it too was a fake.

In March, a picture of Harrison Ford began circulating. In it, the Indiana Jones star was leaning over a casting chair holding a sign that read “Trump for president 2016”. The real image was part of an Ask Me Anything that Ford took part in on social media site Reddit. It read “Hello Reddit”.

One tweet of the fake Ford picture was shared hundreds of times before anybody realised it was a hoax.

Even sports royalty is not immune. Baseball legend Pete Rose was linked to the Trump campaign when a picture of a baseball signed “Mr Trump, Please make America great again” began doing the rounds.

A doctored image of Taylor Swift shows her in a Team Trump crop top. Picture: Facebook
A doctored image of Taylor Swift shows her in a Team Trump crop top. Picture: FacebookSource:Facebook

Trump’s director of social media, Dan Scavino, shared it on Twitter. Trump himself shared it on his official Facebook page with the words “Just received from Pete Rose. Thank you Pete!”.

His 10 million followers thought it was an endorsement, liking the post more than 281,000 times.

Rose, 71, asked his lawyers to settle the matter. According to NBC News, Rose never sent Trump any memorabilia.

Ice Cube made a point of calling out the presidential nominee on Sunday. Hopefully the message hits home with his supporters.

“Stealing endorsements is not how you become the president of the United States, homie,” he wrote.

“Leave my name out ya mouth.”

Source: News Corp Australia Network:

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