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Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, better known as Diamond & Silk to the masses. made waves early on during President Donald Trump’s campaign and his eventual path to the White House. After enjoying fanfare as the former business mogul’s biggest boot shiners, Fox News cut ties with the duo after they continued to push a bizarre narrative that the coronavirus death toll was a ploy to paint Trump in a bad light.
The Daily Beast exclusively reported on Monday (April 27) that Diamond & Silk were given the pink slip from Fox and losing their show on the streaming service Fox Nation after promoting zany conspiracy theories surrounding the novel coronavirus spread despite neither woman working in public health or medicine.
“After what they’ve said and tweeted you won’t be seeing them on Fox Nation or Fox News anytime soon,” sources said to the outlet.
Diamond & Silk rose to fame after Hardaway, a lifelong Democrat, began making videos online decrying her former political ties and standing up tall for Trump. Richardson joined in on the act and the pair became celebrities on the heels of Trump’s approving of their content and giving the pair VIP treatment at rallies.
Since April 7, their weekly videos on Fox Nation haven’t aired and they’ve largely been absent from public appearances for reasons not yet known. It could be assumed that Fox News cut the ties back then but officials from the network have not made a statement regarding the split.
On Twitter, the reaction to Diamond & Silk getting the boot from Fox Nation and Fox News has been met with the expected slander. Some on Twitter also noted that the trio of Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity, all of whom have crossed some lines, are still employees of Fox. Sound about…white.
And in case anyone is wondering, they’re still tap-dancing and shuffling their feet for Trump as seen in this Twitter exchange below. We’ve captured reactions from the social media network below.
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Serious question for @FoxNews:
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) April 28, 2020
why were Trish Regan and Diamond and Silk fired, but you allow Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham to go online and lie every night? Literally last night Ingraham was promoting hydroxychloroquine. This could be deadly.
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56,000 dead, and he tweeted about Diamond & Silk. https://t.co/T4xjcoA0ev
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 28, 2020
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LIKE I SAID YESTERDAY! I love my sister’s Diamond and Silk!
— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) April 28, 2020
If You mess them You messing with me! We Trump supporters are a family
pic.twitter.com/IXpwdjMPTq
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56,000 are dead and Trump is tweeting about Diamond & Silk. That’s bad. What’s worse is that on February 28th, when he should have been ramping up testing, meeting with scientists, spearheading PPE production, he hosted them at the White House to do this: pic.twitter.com/KmNNdfFOzH
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) April 28, 2020
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Diamond and Silk were very mad about my "besmirch statements" and demanded correction or REMOVAL from everywhere.
— To Be Openly Black is a Revolutionary Act (@RealKHiveQueenB) April 28, 2020
Then told me I wasn't allowed to post this dumb ass shit they sent to me.😂 pic.twitter.com/KBO68AfVMQ
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Of course you do...Diamond & Silk are boneheaded, stereotypical caricatures of how you and many of your followers prefer to see black people.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) April 28, 2020
Just like YOU are a boneheaded caricature of how stupid people imagine a smart, rich man is.
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good morning only to the tattered remains of diamond & silk's torn-up fox news contract
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) April 28, 2020
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looks like diamond and silk (explosive diarrhea and gout) got canned for spreading falsehoods. do you know how fucking crooked you have to be to get fired from fox for spreading lies?
— Robert Reed (@RCReed40) April 28, 2020
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lol. Useful idiots no longer sufficiently useful, set out on the curb to keep Stacey Dash company.https://t.co/wzeCzdK4T9
— Iron Spike (@Iron_Spike) April 28, 2020
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This might be the dumbest thing you two have ever said. Not only do I hate both of you, love never entered the picture.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) April 28, 2020
12.
Diamond and Silk
— Tammy Grison (@GrisonTammy) April 28, 2020
As two of our Women of Color, they always make a fool of themselves for Trump pic.twitter.com/6EHMKftrJS
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Fox News Fires Diamond And Silk But Keeps Hannity, Ingraham, Pirro And Carlson
— mikey bromell (@docbro13) April 28, 2020
Tokens are always the last to learn, the first to go.
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It is good to know the President of the United States of America still loves Diamond and Silk and doesn't give a shit about 60,000 other Americans who died because of his Negligence Manslaughter. https://t.co/FYydtrzgdO
— Paul van der Meer (@Paul_VanDerMeer) April 28, 2020
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I see Diamond and Silk trending and the first thing that comes to my mind is the almond milk. the brand names.
— Damita M. Menezes (@damitamenezes) April 28, 2020
I was disappointed when I checked to see what it really was about. pic.twitter.com/p7Qa2UiROt