Rapper Nicki Minaj defends Trump amidst the wave of police brutality within the US: “I’m probably his number one fan” | Culture | EUROtoday

The singer Nicki Minaj, of Trinidadian origin, reaffirmed this Wednesday the help she has been giving to the president of the United States, Donald Trump. “I’m probably the president’s number one fan and that’s not going to change. And hate or what people say doesn’t affect me at all. In fact, it motivates me to support him more and it will motivate all of us to support him more,” he stated at an occasion in Washington by which the Government introduced a brand new federal funding account program for kids born within the United States. “You know, smear campaigns are not going to work,” the rapper continued, “he has a lot of strength and God protects him.” His statements come within the midst of the wave of violence that Trump’s immigration insurance policies have left within the nation, with ICE brokers finishing up random arrests and scenes of police brutality which have already left two folks murdered. “[Trump] He is a different human being. He is a different president. He is a different leader,” she continued fawning over a smiling president who seemed behind her.

Minaj arrived from Trinidad and Tobago to the United States as an irregular immigrant on the age of 5 and assures that she is simply finishing the procedures to acquire her residency. In 2024 he complained about this in a TikTok video: “You would think that with the millions of dollars I have paid in taxes, they would have given me citizenship a long time ago.” After his participation this Wednesday, which shortly went viral on networks, he revealed a picture with one of many new visas Gold Card of Trump, that golden and lavish doc that serves as an accelerated immigration route to acquire residency—and later citizenship—in alternate for a million {dollars} (about 800,000 euros). “Residency? Residency? I am finalizing the citizenship paperwork right now, as arranged by MY wonderful, kind and charming president,” he wrote later, additionally making certain that it had not value him any cash to acquire it.

His help for the extremist insurance policies of the American president is somewhat latest. In 2018, throughout the magnate’s first time period, who had carried out a coverage that separated 1000’s of migrant youngsters from their households, the Trinidadian revealed on her social networks: “This scares me very much. Can you imagine the terror and panic these children feel right now?” In 2015, throughout the election marketing campaign, he additionally confirmed his help for Trump’s contender, Hillary Clinton.

A number of months in the past, the rapper modified her place and has began to fervently and actively help Trump’s insurance policies on her social networks. From the legislation Save, a Congressional initiative that seeks to forestall undocumented immigrants from voting, to the president’s assault on Nigeria and his claims that there are “brutal murders” of “innocent Christians” in that nation. Last December he appeared abruptly at a convention by Turning Point USA, the group based by Charlie Kirk—the ultraconservative activist murdered in September of final yr—the place he criticized the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, one in all Trump’s most important opponents, and defined his frustration with Democratic politics. In that very same look, the vp praised JD Vance, saying that he was “a great role model” and calling him “the murderer,” in a joking tone.