Again in 2020, she mentioned she was not going to assist Trump however now, 5 years later, she’s singing the praises
The rapper is now effusive in her reward for Trump and calls him ‘good-looking’ and ‘dashing’. Photograph: file
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The rapper was effusive in her reward for Trump throughout an interview this weekend by Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative determine Charlie Kirk, at Turning Level USA’s AmericaFest conference held in Phoenix, Arizona. She known as him “good-looking” and “dashing” and in addition shared her admiration for Vice President JD Vance.
“I like each of them,” Minaj mentioned. “Each of them have a really uncanny capacity to be somebody that you simply relate to.”
She was rewarded by reward from Vance, who mentioned on X that Minaj “mentioned one thing at Amfest that was actually profound.” She has been reveling within the consideration, reposting a declare that she has gained greater than 100,000 followers amid her newfound MAGA assist.
Again in 2020, Nicki Minaj mentioned she was “not gonna soar on the Trump bandwagon” after years calling out his anti-immigration politics. 5 years later, she’s singing the president’s praises as a full-throated MAGA supporter. What provides?
The rapper was effusive in her reward for Trump throughout an interview this weekend by Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative determine Charlie Kirk, at Turning Level USA’s AmericaFest conference held in Phoenix, Arizona. She known as him “good-looking” and “dashing” and in addition shared her admiration for Vice President JD Vance.
“I like each of them,” Minaj mentioned. “Each of them have a really uncanny capacity to be somebody that you simply relate to.”
She was rewarded by reward from Vance, who mentioned on X that Minaj “mentioned one thing at Amfest that was actually profound.” She has been reveling within the consideration, reposting a declare that she has gained greater than 100,000 followers amid her newfound MAGA assist.
The world regarded very totally different 15 years in the past, when Minaj used Trump, then a non-public citizen and actuality TV star, for example of misogyny towards ladies within the leisure trade.
Throughout a scene for the MTV documentary “My Time Now,” which traced Minaj’s roots from her native Trinidad and Tobago to famous person rapper, she provided up her ideas on how assertive ladies are considered as “b**ches” versus males who’re considered highly effective for a similar conduct.
“Donald Trump can say ‘You are fired.’ Let Martha Stewart run her firm the identical method and be the identical method!'” she mentioned, invoking Trump’s catch phrase from the hit NBC actuality present “The Apprentice.” “However Donald Trump, he will get to hang around with younger [expletive] and have 50 totally different wives and simply be cool.”
Minaj had blended emotions when Billboard requested her in 2015 how she felt about Trump’s surging presidential marketing campaign.
“There are factors he has made that will not have been so horrible if his strategy wasn’t so infantile,” she mentioned on the time. “However by way of leisure — I feel he is hilarious. I want they may simply movie him operating for president. That is the final word actuality present.”
She took a decidedly extra crucial view the next yr, in a freestyle remix launched in November 2016, the identical month Trump was elected to his first time period as president.
“Island lady, Donald Trump need me go dwelling,” she rapped on “Black Barbies,” a freestyle remix of Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles.”
Minaj, who was born Onika Tanya Maraj in Trinidad and Tobago in December 1982, has been open about coming to the USA as an undocumented youngster. In an emotional social media put up in 2018, she known as out the separation of households on the border throughout Trump’s first administration.
“I got here to this nation as an unlawful immigrant. I can not think about the horror of being in an odd place & having my mother and father stripped away from me on the age of 5,” she reportedly wrote within the caption of a photograph exhibiting younger youngsters separated from their mother and father on the border being detained. (Minaj deactivated her foremost Instagram account in October 2025.)
“That is so scary to me. Please cease this,” she wrote. “Are you able to attempt to think about the fear & panic these children really feel proper now? Not understanding if their mother and father are lifeless or alive, if they’re going to ever see them once more.”
She echoed these emotions on the Pollstar Dwell 2020 Convention, the place she declared that she was “not gonna soar on the Trump bandwagon.”
“I get that lots of people don’t love him for apparent causes. However what caught with me was the kids being taken away from their mother and father once they got here into this nation,” Minaj mentioned. “That basically bothered me as a result of I used to be a type of immigrant youngsters coming to America to flee poverty. And I could not think about a little bit youngster going via all of that, making an attempt to get to a different nation as a result of they did not have cash of their nation, or whether or not you are fleeing from conflict.”
Issues appeared to shift for Minaj throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Anti-vaxxers flocked to her social media when in September 2021 she posted a narrative claiming that an unnamed good friend of her cousin had suffered “swollen” testicles and “turned impotent” after getting a COVID-19 shot, which consultants tried to refute.
By this yr, she was reposting movies from the White Home on TikTok, together with one which used her “Va Va Voom” track as a soundtrack and touted Trump’s anti-trans and anti-immigration insurance policies.
