Chelsea Handler offers to pay ex-boyfriend 50 Cent’s taxes if he drops Trump support
The comedian says she can contribute to the hip-hop icon's bill if he changes his political affiliations
Chelsea Handler used to consider 50 Cent her “favorite ex-boyfriend” but after the rapper spoke up this week about his possible support of Donald Trump, she’s now willing to pay him to change his tune.
Earlier this week, 50 Cent — born Curtis Jackson — took to Instagram to urge fans to “vote for Trump” because he believed former Vice President Joe Biden’s tax plan to be too much of a liability to his pockets.
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“WHAT THE F—! (VOTE ForTRUMP) IM OUT,” he wrote in the caption which accompanied an image from a news broadcast stating that high-earning New Yorkers might be taxed at a rate of 62%. “F— NEW YORK The KNICKS never win anyway. I don’t care Trump doesn’t like black people 62% are you out of ya f—ing mind.”
The next day, he doubled down on his disdain of the proposal, writing on Twitter, “Yeah, i don’t want to be 20cent. 62% is a very, very,bad idea. i don’t like it !”
“You used to be my favorite ex-boyfriend,” Handler wrote in response to the tweet.
“Oh my God this is effecting [sic.] my love life now,” 50 responded. “@chelseahandler I love ya Gator, don’t let Trump and Joe Biden come between us girl.”
In response, the 45-year-old comedian offered to pay the rapper’s taxes should he reconsider his support for the president. “Hey f–ker! I will pay your taxes in exchange for you coming to your senses,” she wrote on Wednesday. “Happily! Black lives matter. That’s you, f–ker! Remember?”
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According to Billboard, 50 Cent once revealed during an appearance on The Late Late Show that he’d turned down a half-million-dollar offer to appear at Trump’s 2016 inauguration, saying “all money’s not good money.”
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