Nicki Minaj is standing ten toes down on her allegiance to Trump, despite the “hate” from critics.
The rapper joined Trump on stage Wednesday (Jan 28) at a Treasury Department-hosted summit in Washington, D.C. The
“I am probably the president’s number one fan, and that’s not going to change, And the hate or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all,” she relayed. “It actually motivates me to support him more.”
“We’re not going to let them get away with bullying him and the smear campaigns. It’s not going to work, OK?” she said ahead of remarks by Trump at the event.
The “Anaconda” lyricist added, “he has a lot of force behind him and God is protecting him,” before Kevin O’Leary joined her and Trump at the podium. Trump joked that it was an “interlude” that was more entertaining than calling Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent up to speak.
The “hate” that Minaj, who was born Onika Maraj, may be referencing is the recent wave of online petitions demanding her deportation. Minaj, herself, admitted that she came to the United States illegally from her native Trinidad.
Minaj was not always a Trump fan
Minaj has been a recent public supporter of Trump and the GOP party, despite criticizing his policy in 2016. In a freestyle remix of Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles” entitled “Black Barbies,” Minaj played up her Trinidadian heritage while also admitting her own disagreement with Trump’s deportation policies. “Island girl, Donald Trump want me go home,” she rapped.
Then in 2018, Minaj condemns Trump’s administration separating children from their families. Minaj paired her words with images of children in cages, per People.
“I came to this country as an illegal immigrant at 5 years old,” she wrote. “I can’t imagine the horror of being in a strange place and having my parents stripped away from me at the age of 5. This is so scary to me. Please stop this.”
By 2020, she was confident that she would never be #TeamTrump. At a Pollstar Live 2020 Conference, Minaj was asked about her feelings on the former “Apprentice” star, to which she responded that she was “not gonna jump on Donald Trump bandwagon.
Treasury Department-hosted summit was held to launch “Trump Accounts” for newborn babies. The accounts will be seeded with $1,000 in federal funding for newborns.
At Wednesdays summit, Trump gushed about Minaj, including praising her roughly two-inch glittery nails.
“I am going to let my nails grow, because I love those nails,” he joked. “She’s so good. She’s been MAGA, what can I say? She’s been with us all the way.”