After Trump gig, Nicki Minaj says her U.S. citizenship is close

Nicki Minaj, who said she was brought to the United States from Trinidad and Tobago as an “illegal immigrant” in 2018 when she was 5 years old, showed Trump the gold card on Wednesday following an event that officially launched the president’s IRA-style savings accounts for children. He said on social media that his citizenship papers were nearing completion.

The 43-year-old “Bang Bang” rapper wrote on Wednesday: “Residency? Residency? Coping is coping… As we speak, we are finalizing citizenship papers for MY wonderful, gracious, charming President.” in xIncluded is a photo of the character Chucky flipping his middle finger. “Thanks to the petition. … I couldn’t have done this without you. Oh CitizenNIKA, you’re here now. The Gold Trump card is free.”

That post, which mentions the card that grants United States citizenship to those who pay $1 million, may have referenced multiple petitions arguing that the rapper (real name Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty) should be deported to Trinidad and Tobago, where she was born before growing up in Queens, New York. photo of gold card and one word “Welp…”

“I came to this country as a 5-year-old illegal immigrant,” the rapper wrote Facebook In 2018, she posted a photo from the first Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” era of immigration enforcement as immigrant children were separated from their immigrant parents at the nation’s southern border.

The photo showed children on padded mats with silver Mylar thermal blankets, the walls surrounded by wire fencing. “I can’t imagine the horror of being in a foreign place and having my family taken from me when I was 5 years old. This is so scary to me. Please make this stop. Can you try to imagine the terror and panic these children are feeling right now?”

In a speech in 2020, he said: Rolling stone He said in an interview that he thought Trump was “very funny” on “Celebrity Apprentice” but was disturbed by the photos of children taken from their parents.

“I was one of those immigrant kids who came to America to escape poverty,” Minaj told the press. “And I couldn’t imagine a little kid going through all that, trying to go to another country because they don’t have money in their home country, or you’re running away from war, and then you get taken away from the one person who comforts you. It really raised my eyebrows.”

He said at the time that he would not “jump on the Donald Trump bandwagon.”

But Minaj has since begun supporting the president in his second term, even calling herself his “No. 1 fan.” In statements on Wednesday. “And that’s not going to change,” he said.

“I’m not moved at all by the hate or what people have to say. It actually motivates me to support him more, and it will motivate all of us to support him more,” Minaj said. “We’re not going to let them bully him and smear him. It’s not going to work, okay? He’s got a lot of power behind him and God is protecting him.”

The President introduced him “The greatest and most successful female rapper in history” is an accurate title, judging by record sales and overall presence on the Billboard Hot 100. (Of course, Missy Elliott and Miss Lauryn Hill may want to talk.)

POTUS continued: “I didn’t know Nicki, and I’ve heard over the years that she’s a huge Trump supporter, Trump fan.” “And he got a little angry at times because his community is not necessarily a Trump fan.”

Trump said Minaj, along with people including Dell Computers Chief Executive Officer Michael S. Dell, was among those who took action and donated “hundreds of thousands of dollars” of her money to the new accounts. Besides his generosity, the POTUS was definitely a fan of Minaj’s long, dyed, spiky pink manicure. She giggled as she told the audience: “I’m going to let my nails grow because I love those nails. I’m going to let those nails grow.”

In December, before Christmas, the rapper appeared on stage with conservative activist Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, who was killed at Utah Valley University in September. Minaj took the opportunity to praise Trump and mock California Governor Gavin Newsom at the Phoenix conference of Kirk’s organization, Turning Point USA.

Minaj, a Christian, praised Trump for standing up at the time for christians He is persecuted in Nigeria and elsewhere.

“I have great respect and admiration for our president,” Minaj said. “I don’t know if he knew that, but he gave so many people hope that there was a chance to beat the bad guys, to win, and to do it with your head held high.”

He also declared on stage that “there’s nothing wrong with being a boy.”

“How about this?” he continued. “How powerful is this? How deep is this? Boys will be boys, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Minaj then read aloud some social media posts mocking Newsom, calling him “Newscum” and “Gavie-poo” and criticizing his advocacy on behalf of “trans kids.”

It’s not like the “Starships” rapper is keeping the ball on the side of being tough when he says he’s willing to “cuss out” certain people at certain times in 2023.

“When I hear this word Meaning, I think about the essence of who that person is,” she told Vogue. “I always tell people that the difference between being mean and being a bitch is that the bitch is temporary. The bitch comes and goes. So who are you? I can be the biggest slut when I’m at the height of my philandering, but if the person I’m swearing at needs something from me at the time, I’ll give it to them. “I need to be able to look in the mirror and be at peace with myself.”

Trump is accountable to childrenThe IRA, a new type of IRA available to U.S. citizens under 18 on Dec. 31 of the year the account is opened, is part of the “Big Beautiful Bill” of tax cuts and spending cuts enacted last summer.

For children born during the second Trump administration term, between 2025 and 2028, accounts will receive $1,000 from the U.S. Treasury when a parent submits a form to the IRS to open an account. Additional pre-tax contributions of up to $5,000 per year are allowed but not required, and a parent is in charge of the account until the child turns 18. Withdrawals for education, housing, or employment will be taxed as ordinary income.

Minaj is married to Kenneth Petty, who spent four years in prison after being convicted of attempted rape in New York in 1995, and the couple have a son. The baby nicknamed “Papa Bear” was born in 2020; that was about five years too early to qualify for the $1,000.