Nicki Minaj and Donald Trump held hands this week.
One Reuters close-up pic was jarring. Nicky’s press-on nails, the size of switchblades, are tucked under the president’s thumb. Even Melania doesn’t do that. Between Nicki’s peach-and-blue talons and Donald’s badly bruised paw, plastered with Maybelline, it was like seeing Clawdeen Wolf cradle palms with Elmer Fudd after a wabbit hunting mishap.
Minaj was once the “Queen of Rap.”
She wants a new sobriquet in 2026: “Queen of MAGA.”
Garbed in a white fur coat that made her look like a grinning polar bear, Minaj was in Washington to promote “Trump Accounts.” The new trust fund from the U.S. Treasury gives $1,000 to every baby born between Jan. 1, 2025 and Dec. 31, 2028.
No word if the infants must vow eternal devotion to Agent Orange.
I will award Trump points for this initiative. Giving babies a financial head start is never a bad idea. But what Minaj said at the press conference alienated her fans:
“I will say that I am probably the president’s No. 1 fan … The hate, or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all … We’re not going to let them get away with bullying him and the smear campaigns … He has a lot of force behind him and God is protecting him.”
But, Nicki, who is protecting you?
We can only wince when a celebrity makes a dramatic turn and face-plants into a cultural cactus. Minaj, who once championed the downtrodden and the marginalized, is now keen to go for mani-pedis with Karoline Leavitt? Does she really get a jolt of inspiration from Stephen Miller’s racism or JD Vance’s cockamamie jeremiads on replacement theory?
There’s a difference between contrarian shock value and identity whiplash.
In 2018, according to ABC News, Minaj wrote this on Instagram to convey her disgust with the family separation policy during Trump 1.0: “I came to this country as an illegal immigrant. I can’t imagine the horror of being in a strange place & having my parents stripped away from me at the age of 5. This is so scary to me. Please stop this.”
Nicki? This just happened to a five-year-old in Minnesota this month.
What were you doing? Bedazzling a red hat for a date with the MyPillow Guy?
No wonder her fans are reeling. I haven’t seen this many unfollows since Ye went Nazi. A petition on Change.org — “Deport Nicki Minaj Back to Trinidad” — has surpassed 70,000 signatures. For fans, Nicki joining the MAGA cult is more shocking than if she had taken a sudden vow of celibacy to join the Monastery of Santa Susanna.
Watching her hold hands with Trump felt like shock therapy without the therapy.
Minaj once championed fairness and empowerment. So this new persona isn’t just a pivot — it’s a blindfolded backflip off the Grand Canyon.
And for what? So she can fast-track her own residency status?
As she posted on X this week: “Finalizing that citizenship paperwork as we speak as per MY wonderful, gracious, charming President. Gold Trump card free of charge.”
That last admission is particularly galling.
ICE is now hunting undocumented seamstresses, short-order cooks, gardeners, roofers and day labourers as if they were valuable Pokemon cards. Regardless of how long they’ve lived in America, paid taxes and contributed to communities without ever committing a crime, those hunted souls are getting cuffed and booted out of America’s back door.
At the same time, the grifter-in-chief hatched a new immigration scheme. From the website: “For a $15,000 DHS processing fee* and, after background approval, a contribution of $1 million, receive U.S. residency in record time with the Trump Gold Card.”
I’m guessing the “background approval” is achieved after the $1 million is transferred into a Qatari bank account? At least it’s not as expensive as the $1 billion to join Trump’s “Board of Peace,” which came to life this month with a rogue’s gallery of strongmen who value human rights the way Sydney Sweeney values flannel.
Trump even invited Vladimir Putin, a war criminal, to join his bizarro UN. That’s like making Jeffrey Dahmer head chef at your new bistro.
Board of Peace? More like the Legion of Doom.
Does Minaj not see all of this? Why betray your fans and take a blowtorch to your brand for a chance to hang out at Turning Point USA conferences and mingle with white nationalists who probably signed that deportation petition? Does she really want to sit through “Melania” or have sleepover parties with Pam Bondi when the end result is she loses her fans, batters her reputation and puts every value she once stood for on eBay?
It’s one thing to evolve politically. It’s quite another to flip-flop out of the political waters in an arc like a dolphin at SeaWorld and then violently splash your fans who promptly demand a refund.
That’s not independent thinking — it’s self-serving hypocrisy.
Nicki Minaj held hands with Donald Trump this week and slapped her followers.
