Back in 2020, Nicki Minaj said she was “not gonna jump on the Trump bandwagon” after years calling out his anti-immigration politics. Five years later, she’s singing the president’s praises as a full-throated MAGA supporter. What gives?
The rapper was effusive in her praise for Trump during an interview this weekend by Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative figure Charlie Kirk, at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest convention held in Phoenix, Arizona. She called him “handsome” and “dashing” and also shared her admiration for Vice President JD Vance.
“I love both of them,” Minaj said. “Both of them have a very uncanny ability to be someone that you relate to.”
She was rewarded by praise from Vance, who said on X that Minaj “said something at Amfest that was really profound.” She has been reveling in the attention, reposting a claim that she has gained more than 100,000 followers amid her newfound MAGA support.
The world looked very different 15 years ago, when Minaj used Trump, then a private citizen and reality TV star, as an example of misogyny against women in the entertainment industry.
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