WNBA Star Issues ‘Threat’ To President Trump originally appeared on The Spun.
A prominent WNBA star has issued what some are deeming a “warning” and “threat” to President Donald J. Trump and ICE agents in 2025.
WNBA star Natasha Cloud does not shy away from voicing her political opinions. Cloud, 33, plays for the New York Liberty. She recently spoke out in response to Zohran Mamdani winning New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary last month. Cloud was very excited about it.
“Mamdani, my boy!” she told reporters following a New York Liberty practice.
President Trump, meanwhile, recently claimed that the New York mayoral candidate, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was “here illegally,” threatening possible deportation.
In response, Cloud issued a warning to President Trump and his ICE agents.
US President Donald Trump attends a working session during the Group of Seven (G7) Summit at the Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada on June 16, 2025. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) LUDOVIC MARIN/Getty Images
Cloud referred to the President of the United States as “Donny.”
“If Donny wants to come down here, if ICE wants to try and come down here, that’s fine,” she said.
“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.”
Cloud has faced some backlash on social media from some, though she doesn’t seem to mind it.
“Yall, I think I made them mad again🤣,” she wrote on X.
Cloud has made it very clear that she is going to continue to speak her mind.
WNBA Star Issues ‘Threat’ To President Trump first appeared on The Spun on Jul 8, 2025
This story was originally reported by The Spun on Jul 8, 2025, where it first appeared.