Nicki Minaj Holds Donald Trump’s Hand and Declares Herself ‘the President’s No. 1 Fan’: ‘God Is Protecting Him’

Hip-hop superstar Nicki Minaj doubled down on her controversial support for President Donald J. Trump with a short speech at a “Trump Accounts Summit” session on Wednesday, telling the assembled audience that Trump is being “bullied” and “smeared” and declaring herself “probably the president’s No. 1 fan.”

“Well, I don’t know what to say,” Minaj began, after clasping hands with the president at the Washington, D.C. event, “but I will say that I am probably the president’s no. 1 fan. And that’s not going to change.

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“And the hate with what people have to say, it does not affect me, at all,” she continued. “It actually motivates me to support him more. And it’s gonna motivate all of us to support him more. We’re not going to let them get away with bullying him. The smear campaigns, it’s not going to work. He has a lot of force behind him, and God is protecting him. Amen?”

With that, she whispered a question to someone off-stage of whether she should go, and made her exit.

Trump said to her, “We did pretty well with your community,” apparently speaking of his Black supporters.

He also joked about her wealth, saying about how $16 billion in contributions to “Trump Accounts” was a figure that would make even as rich a rapper as Minaj sit up and take notice.

Later, the White House tweeted out a portrait photo of MInaj and Trump together, with the president smiling broadly and offering his thumbs-up gesture. The caption suggested that Minaj’s devoted fan base and his are aligning: “BARBZ x MAGA,” it read, with an American flag emblem.

Minaj has announced that she will contribute between $150,000 and $300,000 to fund her fans’ Trump Accounts, although how those contributions would be diverted specifically to fans has not been explained.

Trump Accounts is the name given to Section 530A individual retirement accounts, as part of recently passed tax and spending legislation in which the federal government has pledged to deposit $1,000 into investment accounts for all chidlren born between 2025 and 2028, if parents sign their children up in the course of filing their income taxes. 

Said Trump in his remarks, “Decades from now I believe Trump Accounts will be remembered as one of the most transformative policy innovations of all time.”

Minaj had advertised her appearance at Wednesday’s event in advance, tweeting four days ago that Trump Accounts represented “the true meaning of paying it forward. Early financial literacy & financial support for our children will give them a major head start in life.”

Minaj has made no secret recently of her love for the president, to the dismay of many of her “Barbz,” who have been sharply divided over the rapper’s pronounced turn toward the right.

In December, the rapper made a surprise appearance at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference, sitting down with Erika Kirk for an interview in which she effusively praised the current administration and called Trump “handsome and dashing.” At that gathering, she also called MAGA partisans “the cool kids”; suggested that white women have been the victims of reverse discrimination as the beauty of Black women has been elevated; and made an awkward reference to the vice president as “the assassin JD Vance” (a misspeak for which Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow, excused her).

Minaj’s primary cause, of late, has been her antipathy for the adult support of trans youth, which has been the foremost bone of contention in her repeatedly attacking California governor Gavin Newsome, whom she calls “Newscum.”

In her conversation with Kirk, Minaj took on the cloak of evangelical Christianity, something she has not often been associated with in her frank-talking past as a rapper. “I truly feel that there are people out there who felt good about chastising Christians right here in our country. And it’s kind of really, really sick,” she said. “We can’t let people like that be in power, you guys. That’s the truth. I can sugarcoat it and laugh and tee-hee, but the truth is, I am here today to tell you guys that we absolutely cannot let people who have a problem with us worshipping God… we cannot have them in power.”

Minaj indicated that, even beyond her beliefs about trans youths, she feels boys are discouraged from being masculine. “Boys, be boys,” she said. “It’s OK. Be boys. There’s nothing wrong with being a boy… How powerful is that? How profound is that? Boys will be boys and there’s nothing wrong with that.” “Amen,” Kirk responded, repeatedly, as Minaj laughed and stretched her arms out in a pose of triumph.