Rapper Nicki Minaj declared herself US President Donald Trump’s “biggest fan” on Wednesday before showing off her Gold Card Visa.
of super bass The singer made the comments on stage with President Trump at the Treasury Summit, where the US president was promoting his new “Trump Account.” After introducing Minaj as “the greatest and most successful female rapper of all time,” Trump said he would donate “hundreds of thousands of dollars” of his own money to these accounts.
It all happened after a continuous support campaign. Musician playing cards.
“I’m probably the president’s biggest fan, and that’s not going to change. And the hate and what people say, it doesn’t affect me at all,” Minaj said on Wednesday. “It actually makes me want to support him more.”. ”
Minaj followed up these comments with, Post to Xshe showed off her Trump Gold Card Visa. The program, introduced late last year, aims to give a path to permanent residence and citizenship to highly skilled foreign workers who can pay a $1 million U.S. fee.
Minaj was born in Trinidad and Tobago, but arrived in the United States the next day. 5 years old as an illegal immigrant Posted in X She said: “Following my wonderful, benevolent and charming President, I am completing my citizenship papers as we speak.” She also said she received the card “free.”
The blessing marks something of a political shift for Minaj. When Trump first ran for president of the United States, Minaj told Billboard“There’s a point.” [Trump] “Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if his approach wasn’t so childish,” he said, though he expressed limited support for Democrat Hillary Clinton.
according to peoplein a since-deleted Instagram post, she criticized President Trump’s 2018 family separation policy, writing, “I can’t imagine the horror of being in a strange place and being separated from your parents at the age of 5. This is so scary to me. Please stop.” She later said at the Pollstar Live 2020 conference that she was “not going to jump on the Trump bandwagon.”
“What struck me was that children were separated from their parents when they came to this country,” she said at the time. “I was one of the children of immigrants who came to America to escape poverty.”. ”
But then Minaj’s opinion of Trump changed. When he was president of the United States Questions have arisen about the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemicselected by Minaj I will not be attending the 2021 Met Gala due to vaccination requirements;She said she has not received the coronavirus vaccine; you won’t get one. Then she claimed that on X A cousin’s friend in Trinidad says the coronavirus vaccine caused his testicles to become “swollen,” causing impotence.
both Minister of Health of Trinidad and Tobago and Dr. Anthony Fauci, then director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases He denied the truth of the story.
From 2025, her alignment with President Trump has become clearer. She shared and reposted pro-Trump content on social media and defended his campaign. Transgender athletes in women’s sports and his crackdown on immigration. And later, she spoke on “Deadly Threats” at a United Nations event hosted by the Trump administration. Christians face In Nigeria.
Her appearance came after she responded positively to President Trump’s Truth social post about Nigeria.a. The African Union is denied President Trump’s claims The country is said to be experiencing mass murders, particularly targeting Christians.
Then, in December 2025, Minaj appeared with her widow Erica Kirk. ConsInnovative critic Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point USA event. There, she read past tweets calling Trump a “handsome, dashing president” and criticizing California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s support for transgender children.
Each generated its own cycle of media attention, consideration and, as Minaj said Wednesday, hate and backlash. But certain elements of Minaj’s alignment with President Trump are a big reason why she has come under criticism.
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Early in my career, I served as social editor for Exclaim! The magazine Sydney Brasil reported that the musician had attracted a queer fan base. At one point Minaj described herself as bisexual, at another point she directly said Begged gay fans not to commit suicide In 2019, they canceled their performance in Saudi Arabia due to the following reasons. Human rights complaints To women and LGBTQ+ people.
“She spent a lot of time and a lot of her career catering to the fact that a lot of her audience was LGBTQ,” Brazil said. “Obviously they’re going to feel betrayed in some way because she was idolized in a way and now they’re sweeping it under the rug.”
But Elle Jones, an assistant professor at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, said she is not the only public figure to support the U.S. president. In the hip-hop world, artists Sexy Red, Lil Wayne, Ye, and Snoop Dogg have all supported Trump at various points in their careers.
In addition to musicians, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Colina Machado recently presented the Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump, shortly after leading the operation to seize the country’s president.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Mark Carney was elected in April 2025 based primarily on the following policies: Anti-Trump campaign message. some I have been criticizing him ever since. They accused him of capitulating to Trump without securing benefits for Canada in return.
Jones said it’s important to see a change in Minaj’s own perspective, given that these and similar celebrities outside the entertainment world have issued erratic statements of support.
“Of course we can talk about entertainers, but I would caution against just being entertainers,” Jones said. “Obviously, she has cultural power, but the real power lies with the billionaires, corporate leaders, and politicians who do similar things, often keeping a low profile.”
But Jones said it’s no wonder some are especially upset, given what Minaj’s fans thought of her before the change.
“It’s like the power of a fan base to support you. And she had a very supportive fan base that supported her. You can’t expect that fan base to keep showing up for her when she’s basically telling a lot of her fans that she’s against them.”