Nicki Minaj, the rap diva turned MAGA enthusiast: News

On Sunday in Phoenix (Arizona), an unexpected headline appeared on the stage of AmericaFest, the annual gathering of ultraconservative youth: Nicki Minaj, the rap superstar publicly met with Donald Trump.

“I have the utmost respect and admiration for our president,” she told Erika Kirk, the widow of ultra-conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.

“This government is full of people who have a heart,” said the rapper, during a discussion with the activist, now head of the youth organization created by her murdered husband, Turning Point USA.

Dressed in a dark dress a far cry from her usually extravagant attire, without her trademark theatrical make-up, she described Donald Trump as “attractive and irresistible”.

Perhaps wanting to pay tribute to his political combativeness, she curiously compared the vice president to a “murderer”, judging him to be a “role model”. After a moment’s hesitation, Erika Kirk defused the situation with a laugh, saying she had “heard everything” since her husband’s murder in September.

JD Vance then complimented Nicki Minaj on X saying “really deep things” about race relations.

– “Hit Rock Bottom” –

“We’ve known that Nicki Minaj was sinking for a while, but now she’s hit rock bottom,” complained a member of a discussion forum dedicated to the TV show RuPaul’s Drag Race on Reddit.

He is accused in other comments of betraying his many fans in the LGBT+ community in order to gain publicity or attract political favors.

The star was a judge in this drag queen competition in 2020 and introduced herself to the public as follows: “I am Nicki Minaj and I declare my allegiance to the cause of drag.”

Here’s the performer of “Starships” and “Anaconda” gathered in the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement, which absolutely rejects drag culture and refuses to recognize the existence of transgender people.

The self-proclaimed “Queen of Rap”, admired for her ability to navigate between registers, from the rawest to the most melodic, as well as her ultra-controlled delivery, Nicki Minaj has record sales to her credit.

JD Vance had already signaled on December 11 that he considered her an ally by writing in the X: “Nicki > Cardi.”

This cryptic message is a reference to his rivalry with another American rap superstar, Cardi B, over her support for the Democratic camp.

– Christians –

In 2018, Nicki Minaj, born in Trinidad and Tobago (Caribbean), condemned on Instagram the brutality of the anti-immigrant policy of the Republican president, then in his first term.

“I arrived in this country as an illegal immigrant at the age of 5,” she revealed in a message that is now unavailable on the platform but was widely reproduced at the time by the press. “Please stop this,” she asked, referring to forced family separations.

In 2021, during the Covid-19 pandemic, she made headlines by publicly questioning the safety of vaccines, which she refused to take.

But it was in November 2025 that Nicki Minaj really, or at least publicly, joined the Trump camp.

On November 18, she made a surprise appearance at the UN to declare that “Christians are being targeted” in Nigeria, an accusation made by Donald Trump but rejected by the country’s authorities, observers and scholars.

Also in November, when the White House used one of her headlines (“Va va voom”) to brag about her TikTok record, Nicki Minaj shared the montage.

Other stars, such as singers Sabrina Carpenter or SZA, have instead denounced the use of their music by the Trump administration.

Nicki Minaj is not the only figure in the American rap scene, abundant and certainly not politically monolithic, to have joined the Trumpist movement.

Rapper Lil Wayne, for example, publicly endorsed the Republican in October 2020, posing for a photo with him shortly before the presidential election.

A few months later, Donald Trump placed the artist, who then faced up to ten years in prison for a firearms possession case, on his latest presidential pardon list.

published on December 22 at 21:12, AFP

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