How Nicki Minaj Went MAGA

Backstage on the Mellon Auditorium, Trump’s media staff captured a TikTok change calibrated for virality: Trump topped Minaj the “Queen of Rap,” and he or she returned the praise, calling him her favourite President. “I am probably the President’s No. 1 fan,” she informed the viewers, “and that’s not going to change.”

Since then, Minaj has solely turn out to be an even bigger booster. She has advocated for laws, often called the SAFE Act, to impose nationwide necessities that Americans present ID to vote. In a number of posts and interviews, Minaj has inspired her on-line followers to push their Representatives in Congress to vote for it. Law-enforcement authorities have discovered no proof of widespread voter fraud, however Minaj, like Trump, argues that elections have been rigged by sinister forces. “People are voting that aren’t supposed to vote,” she says, with out providing specifics. In our dialog, she speaks with instinctive confidence in Trump’s false assertions in regards to the 2020 election. “Obviously, I do not know, but I know that if he comes out and says it, that he’s done his due diligence, and I know that he’s not just doing it up,” she says.