Fox News host Laura Ingraham needed to backtrack after mistakenly mixing up Nicki Minaj together with her longtime rap rival and resident WAPtivist Cardi B on air, a mix-up critics are copiously cackling over.
The hilarious on-air blunder occurred as the 2 mentioned Nicki’s look on the President’s Trump Accounts Summit on Wednesday, the place she declared herself the controversial Republican’s “No 1. Fan,” and reportedly donated between $150,000 and $300,000 to assist his Trump Accounts initiative—particular person retirement accounts designed to encourage early wealth-building, CNBC famous.
Ingraham instructed Bernie Moreno that she and some different conservatives have been “past disgusted” by the rapper’s lyrics and particularly cited “WAP” as one of many songs they discovered appalling, which, except you’ve actually been dwelling underneath a rock with no Wi-Fi, everybody is aware of is the hit tune by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion.
“Nicki Minaj and Donald Trump. Now, conservatives, together with myself, have been past disgusted by a few of her lyrics in her songs over time,” Ingraham mentioned with out a shred of doubt. “‘WAP,’ I gained’t say what that stands for,” she continued.
At that time, Ingraham paused, apparently receiving an emergency fact-check through earpiece, and corrected herself.
“That’s Cardi B. Oh, that’s how dangerous I’m. That’s Cardi B. Thank you, Sam, I stand corrected,” she mentioned, as Moreno laughed on the error.
Later on within the phase, she tried to laugh off the massive mix-up once more, telling viewers, “I can’t consider I insulted Nicki Minaj in evaluating her to Cardi B. That is so dangerous. Guess you’ll be able to inform I’m a rustic music fan.”
The web reacts to Laura Ingraham’s mix-up.
The web, being the web, wasted no time dragging Ingraham for the error. Some referred to as the mix-up completely silly, whereas others discovered it hilarious, particularly contemplating that Cardi B and Nicki Minaj have had a very public feud for years. Mixing them up is mainly the pop-culture model of stepping on a landmine and/or simply considering that all of us look alike.
DJ Judd summed it up completely: “Of all of the attainable reactions to Nicki Minaj becoming a member of the president on the White House right this moment, complicated her with Megan Thee Stallion or Cardi B might be the one that will make her essentially the most offended!”
Just a few social media customers mentioned the second was proof that, regardless of her public assist for Trump and his administration, conservatives nonetheless didn’t take her significantly, and even acknowledge her, for that matter.
Democratic commentator Bakari Sellers additionally chimed in on X, writing bluntly: “We all look alike.”
Why are folks dragging Nicki Minaj?
As beforehand reported, on the Trump Accounts Summit on Wednesday, the “Anaconda” rapper gushed about how a lot she loves Trump earlier than addressing the backlash over her public admiration for the president, making it clear she is unbothered, unmoved, and apparently unmuteable.
“I’ll say that I’m in all probability the president’s No. 1 fan, and that’s not going to vary,” Minaj mentioned. “And the hate or what folks should say, it doesn’t have an effect on me in any respect. It really motivates me to assist him extra.”
She went on to say she wouldn’t enable Trump’s critics to “get away with bullying him and the smear campaigns. It’s not going to work.”
“He has lots of pressure behind him, and God is defending him. Amen,” she added.
Nicki was additionally gifted a shiny new Trump Gold Card granting her U.S. residency, as a result of apparently, these include celeb perks now.
She adopted up with a, let’s say, energetic message after the summit, writing on X:
“Residency? Residency? The cope is coping. Finalizing that citizenship paperwork as we communicate as per MY fantastic, gracious, charming President. Thanks to the petition. I wouldn’t have carried out it with out you.
Oh CitizenNIKA you’re the second. Gold Trump card freed from cost.”
And, if that wasn’t sufficient, Nicki continued flaunting her pro-Trump assist on Jan. 29 when she attended the premiere of Melania on the Trump-Kennedy Center.
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