Former NBA player who’s campaigning to become GOP congressman says ‘women have become too mouthy’

A former NBA player now running for Senate in Minnesota has a recent history of controversial statements against women and LGBTQ+ people.

Royce White, who played largely overseas but played three games with the Sacramento Kings in 2014, has entered politics in recent years.

White already made headlines this week after reportedly blowing more than $100,000 in campaign dollars on late nights at strip clubs, clothing and mysterious wire transfers.

Despite leading the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd, he has identified more with the far right in recent years, including Alex Jones and Steve Bannon.

In an interview with Bannon, he stated, “Women have become too empowered. As a black man in the room, I will say that.”

He added that women working is a scam for the working class to double tax Americans.

White has a history of referring to women on social media as “whores” and “b****es” and has a record of alleged abuse of his wife, who has filed for a protective order and announced plans to divorce him before coming back with him, and her girlfriend.

He has fathered two children with wife Angelic Aguilar Suggs and two others with different women.

White has also raised conspiracy theories about “the Jewish lobby” and “the Jewish elite,” while calling LGBTQ+ people “Luciferian.”

“The LGBTQ movement is the brainchild of radical feminists and their fucked-up husbands… At least from a political perspective,” White once wrote on X.

“The sad thing is that they are actually attacking people with mental health problems and subjecting women to a sacrificial role… Sadistic to say the least.”

Ironically, White was once a liberal darling for some of his views on mental health, going public during his playing career and struggling with generalized anxiety disorder.

He even said Trump brought “tyranny” against the protests he led in 2020 CNN.

White endorsed Tulsi Gabbard in the 2020 presidential election, but is now a full-throated supporter of Donald Trump.

In an interview with the New York Times, he told opinion writer Michelle Goldberg that he was not interested in questions about his support for people like Alex Jones.

“Why are white liberal women in this country so determined to tell black men in America what we should and should not think?”

He believes he is a revolutionary who could endanger his life because of his views.

“As a writer you may not know it, but I guarantee your higher-ups know exactly how dangerous I am intellectually,” he said. “They know exactly how dangerous I am politically.”

He once even wrote “Alex Jones was right” and “Deep State” in marker on his head during a 2022 BIG3 basketball game.

“Every time a black man comes forward who is philosophically, politically, spiritually, socially and economically competent in this area, they start planning how they are going to kill him,” he added.

White says he’s not all that different from the man who led the BLM marches in 2020, adding that the “nationalist populist movement that has grown around and with Donald Trump and other individuals like Steve Bannon rejects how American business and the business elite and the There has been a permanent political class for decades.’

The 2024 race is White’s second foray into party politics after unsuccessfully trying to win over the Republican congressional candidate in Ilhan Omar’s district in 2022.

After losing his 2022 House primary, White headed to the Gold Rush Cabaret at 5 a.m. — some 2,000 miles away from the House race he was competing in.

According to 2022 FEC filings, he paid the Miami-based all-nude strip club $1,232 into the campaign account. The entries were first flagged by the Daily beast.

White told DailyMail.com he had no memory of the strip club night but believed his team had “used the wrong card” and was in the process of refunding the campaign.

White has often labeled the political system “corrupt,” but thousands of dollars went to limousine services and fancy hotels in Florida, far away from his race in Minnesota.

White had brief stints in Canada’s National Basketball League and Ice Cube’s Big3 basketball league.

White lost the Republican primary to Cicely Davis and faces competition from retired Navy veteran and banker Joe Fraser in the Senate primary.

White’s campaign is a gamble: He has $10,000 on hand, compared to Klobuchar’s $6 million, and DailyMail.com has learned that national Republicans are staying far away from him. But he has the support of the state GOP.

White even thanked Jones and his outlet Infowars for the resounding victory in gaining the support of the Minnesota GOP, in which he won two-thirds of the delegates.

“Many Infowars fans in the Republican Party delegation were at the convention on Saturday,” he said.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has no plans to endorse White and instead favors Fraser.

NRSC Chairman Senator Steve Daines said White “would have difficulty winning a general election.”

Should he win the August 13 primary, he would have to play one-on-one with incumbent and former presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar.

Klobuchar won her last election in 2018 with 60 percent of the vote and has a 54 percent approval rating in the state.