WNBA star who threatened Trump and ICE agents gets fined for her outfit
Natasha Cloud, a star point guard on the New York Liberty, has been dealing with hip discomfort and didn't play in a contest against the Las Vegas Aces last Wednesday.
Cloud sat on the bench instead, dressed in a sweater vest, cargo pants, a black baseball cap, and Doc Martins.
While that outfit on the outside seems inoffensive, the WNBA didn't seem to take too kindly to one element in particular: the cap.
According to Cloud, the league reached out to her after the game and issued a fine warning that she shouldn't wear a hat again.
Cloud let her frustration out online: 'I don't understand why I receive a fine warning for wearing a hat on the bench for a game I was unable to play in? I just feel like I wanna be left alone lolllzzz'.
While the NBA has a rule prohibiting players from wearing hats with brims on the sidelines, the WNBA doesn't appear to have a similar rule. However, the NBA owns the women's league.
But Cloud doesn't believe that she violated the league's dress code and doesn't think the threat was needed.
Cloud was recently criticized for supporting Zohran Mamdani and seemingly threatening violence against ICE agents and Donald Trump by telling them: 'New Yorkers really don't f*** around.'
Cloud threw her support behind Mamdani before his victory in New York City 's Democratic primary last month.
When asked by a reporter about Mamdani's win over Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates, and Trump's recent comments about arresting and deporting him, Cloud launched into a rant.
She called Trump 'Donny' and suggested there could be severe consequences if ICE agents were to descend on New York.
'Mamdani, my boy!' Cloud said initially.
She then continued: 'If Donny wants to come down here, if ICE wants to try and come down here, that's fine.
'But [they're] going to learn the hard way… New Yorkers really don't f*** around. They don't play about one another. The don't play about this city.
'I just think that it's reckless of our president, reckless of this administration but it's also exciting for us, the people, because that's when you know we're getting to them.
'That's when you know we're creating change that they don't want. That's when you know we're dismantling a system. For all of us in New York I'm just gonna ask that we continue to be on the right path to history, that we protect one another, that we protect Mamdani and what he wants to do.
'Because ultimately he wants to protect us down the line. He is a Muslim, he is a socialist, he is a Democrat so he's going to get the worst PR of all PRs. They're going to tell you to be scared of him, all this Islamophobia s***, that a socialist is a scary thing for our country moving forwards.
'Socialism is that everyone has equity, everyone has the same s***, everyone can live the same dignified life of one another and he's going to do it through taxing the rich instead of taxing the poor to give more to the rich.'
In a separate interview, Cloud added that Mamdani's victory 'restored my hope in humanity a little bit.'
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