WNBA champ's defiant message after suggesting US puts focus on 'profit and money over people'

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Natasha Cloud, the WNBA champion guard who currently plays for the Connecticut Sun, fired off a defiant message on social media following her suggestion that the U.S. has focused on profit over people many times.

Cloud made the remarks in an interview with The Associated Press and defended programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Amid criticism over her words, Cloud didn’t appear to waver.

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Phoenix Mercury's Natasha Cloud, #0, dribbles during the first half of a WNBA basketball game against the Indiana Fever in Indianapolis on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

"Thing is I’m not soft, & words don’t hurt me lol are we 5? it still remains people over profit," she wrote on X. "If yall truly about being unbiased… Google search any overseas media coverage of what’s happening in America.

"Then come back to me and tell me the whole world crazy."

Cloud said last week it was important for athletes to speak out now more than ever as Trump ended government DEI programs, and corporations followed suit.

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Phoenix Mercury guard Natasha Cloud, #0, against the Indiana Fever at Footprint Center in Phoenix on June 30, 2024. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)

"The systems of power are working as they always were intended to work," Cloud said. "And it’s time to break down a system that has only been about White men."

Cloud then said she believed the county had put its focus on "money over people."

"I understand the business aspect and I understand the human aspect," Cloud