Nicki Minaj and Donald Trump’s rising political connection was again within the highlight on Wednesday, Feb. 18, when the president publicly praised the rapper throughout a speech on the White House.
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While addressing attendees at a Black History Month celebration in Washington, D.C., Trump showered the rapper with compliments, applauding each her appears to be like and her political prowess.
“How about Nicki Minaj? Do we love Nicki Minaj? I really like Nicki Minaj. She was right here a pair weeks in the past. She’s so stunning, her pores and skin is so stunning,” Trump gushed. “I mentioned, ‘Nicki, you’re so stunning.’ Her nails are like that lengthy, I mentioned, ‘Nicki are they actual?’ She didn’t wish to get into that. But she was so stunning and so nice and she or he will get it, extra importantly.”
Earlier within the week, Minaj marked Presidents’ Day on Monday by sharing an AI-created picture on social media that confirmed her cruising in a convertible with Trump whereas counting money. The Queens native additionally appeared on the Trump-supported World Liberty Forum on Wednesday, the place she served as a keynote speaker for a panel titled “Owning the Culture: The Business of Music in a Creator-Led Economy.”
Minaj first met Trump in January on the Trump Accounts Summit in Washington, D.C. During the occasion, she stood beside him and overtly declared herself his greatest supporter.
“I’m in all probability the president’s No. 1 fan,” Minaj mentioned. “And that’s not going to alter. What individuals should say, it doesn’t have an effect on me in any respect. It truly motivates me to assist him extra. And it’s going to encourage all of us to assist him extra.”
She added: “We’re not going to allow them to get away with bullying him. And you recognize, the smear campaigns. It’s not going to work. He has loads of pressure behind him and God is defending him.”
In current months, Minaj has made her backing of Trump and his administration her total persona. She bolstered that stance throughout a February interview with right-wing podcaster Katie Miller, explaining that the criticism directed at Trump pushed her to talk up extra forcefully on his behalf.
“Religious freedom is one thing that’s essential to me, but when I’m being sincere, President Trump,” she mentioned. “When I noticed how he was being handled, time and again and over, I simply couldn’t deal with it.”
