4 months ago
Starships are meant to fly, but Nicki Minaj’s philharmonic profession is now doing a Maga-propelled nosedive. For nan past fewer months, nan rapper and erstwhile cheery icon has been horrifying galore of her fans by cosying up to nan Trump administration.
In November, for example, Minaj shared a station by Donald Trump astir nan curen of Christians successful Nigeria and agreed to collaborate pinch nan management connected consciousness astir nan issue. Then, successful December, nan rapper made a astonishment quality astatine Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest convention, wherever she heaped praise connected nan precocious Charlie Kirk (who erstwhile said Minaj was not a bully domiciled exemplary for “18-year-old Black girls”) and nan vice-president, JD Vance. She besides accidentally called Vance an “assassin” while talking to Erika Kirk, Charlie’s widow, but was quickly forgiven for her connection choice. “I emotion this woman,” Erika Kirk proclaimed aft nan weird gaffe.
Not everyone shares that love. Two online petitions to person Minaj deported now person much than 120,000 signatures. Minaj came to nan US from Trinidad and Tobago arsenic an undocumented kid and has been outspoken astir Trump’s hardline migration policies. She moreover erstwhile rapped astir them: “Island girl, Donald Trump want maine spell home,” she sang successful 2016. Perhaps she is reckoning that now she has sewage a greenish card, and is being broadly pro-Trump, nan president is not going to nonstop her home, nary matter really galore petitions spell viral.
I suppose I could jump connected a precocious equine and talk astir really atrocious it is that immoderate evident progressives are trying to weaponise Trump’s dystopian migration policies against Minaj now that’s she’s gone each Maga. But, honestly, who has nan power for that? There is simply a batch much to beryllium outraged astir than group wanting to deport an annoying popular star.
What has happened to nan rapper’s ain civilized outrage, though, I person to wonder. Minaj erstwhile seemed genuinely upset astir Trump’s family separation policies. Has she really been Maga-fied aliases is thing other going on? One conspiracy mentation doing nan rounds online is that Minaj mightiness want nan president to pardon her husband, Kenneth Petty (a registered activity offender), and relative (a child rapist). We each cognize Trump loves pardoning unspeakable group but he can’t erase state convictions, truthful this mentation seems unlikely.
Or has Minaj figured retired that, if you play your cards right, getting “cancelled” by progressives and joining Team Trump is simply a lucrative profession move? She whitethorn person mislaid immoderate fans, but springiness it a fewer months and she’ll beryllium nan caller caput of nan FBI, president of Venezuela aliases queen of Greenland.
