“If state leaders refuse to act responsibly to prevent lawlessness, this Department of Justice will remain mobilized to prosecute federal crimes and ensure that the rule of law prevails.”
Nicki Minaj has come under intense criticism for taking on a role in the Trump administration to raise awareness to an ‘injustice’ close to her heart.
The 42-year-old Trinidadian ‘Queen of Rap’ has announced she will be using her platform to speak out against claims of Christian persecution in Nigeria.
The ‘Super Bass’ hitmaker is scheduled to take to the stage and join forces with US ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, in New York today (Tuesday, November 18), as allegedly arranged by Alex Bruesewitz, an advisor to President Donald Trump.
The move also comes as the POTUS claimed Nigeria is ‘allowing the killing of Christians’ in the secular country, which is closely split between Muslims (53 percent) and Christians (45 percent).
Under intense pressure from conservative Christian groups urging him to consider the west African nation a ‘country of particular concern’ over alleged religious persecution, Trump claimed Islamist extremist groups were behind the targeted persecution of Christians in ‘very large numbers’.He also promised to send US troops ‘guns-a-blazing’, warning: “It will be fast, vicious and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our cherished Christians.”
However, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu insists that people ‘across faiths’ are being killed while analysts say the causes are much more complex, from ethnic rivalries to disputes over land and water.
Tinubu also says Nigeria remains a ‘democracy with constitutional guarantees of religious liberty’.
Announcing Minaj’s involvement in the cause, Waltz wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that the singer ‘is not only arguably the greatest female recording artist, but also a principled individual who refuses to remain silent in the face of injustice’.
“I’m grateful she’s leveraging her massive platform to spotlight the atrocities against Christians in Nigeria, and I look forward to standing with her as we discuss the steps the President and his administration are taking to end the persecution of our Christian brothers and sisters,” he penned.The mom-of-one later confirmed her involvement, writing back to Waltz: “Ambassador, I am so grateful to be entrusted with an opportunity of this magnitude. I do not take it for granted. It means more than you know.”
Referring to her fanbase, known as the ‘Barbz,’ she continued: “The Barbz and I will never stand down in the face of injustice. We’ve been given our influence by God. There must be a bigger purpose.”
Her collaboration with the White House comes after the hitmaker publicly supported Trump’s Truth Social post about the matter just days earlier.
“Reading this made me feel a deep sense of gratitude. We live in a country where we can freely worship God … Thank you to the president and his team for taking this seriously. God bless every persecuted Christian,” she wrote on X.
Yet some fans aren’t exactly rejoicing at her involvement in politics, dubbing the move as ‘PR cosplay’ and accusing her of cosying up to the Republican.
“‘I will never stand in the face of injustice’ while siding with Trump is crazy,” echoed another. “Pack it up. Take your hypocrisy elsewhere.”
A third added: “The ‘Barbz vs injustice’ act is getting tired, power doesn’t equal purpose, and fan armies aren’t a moral compass.”
A fourth weighed in: “The ‘Christian genocide’ narrative is the ultimate political utility.
“It simultaneously fuels the celebrity clout economy for Nicki Minaj and serves as the Evangelical loyalty test and Trump allegiance signal for Republican senators. Nigeria and the victims? Irrelevant!”
Nicki Minaj has been facing a significant backlash on social media in recent weeks and may now have deleted her whole Instagram account.
Minaj was recently a surprise guest at the Turning Point USA event, in Phoenix, Arizona on December 21 and shared the stage with Erika Kirk.
Minaj faced a swift backlash after she appeared to misspeak while arguing that there were many conservative role models for young men to look up to.
Minaj included JD Vance in role models for men, going on to use the term ‘assassin’ in a positive light.
In most settings this would be perfectly fine, however it comes as an awkward moment as Erika Kirk’s husband Charlie Kirk was assassinated while answering questions at a Turning Point event back in September.
Minaj said: “Dear young men, you have amazing role models, like our handsome dashing president. And you have amazing role models like the assassin, JD Vance, our vice president – and when I say that…”
She then held her hand to her mouth in silence, realizing the blunder, however Erika Kirk offered her words of support and said sometimes you just have to laugh in these moments.
Kirk said: “I love this woman, she is an amazing woman. She has a soul and a heart for the Lord, and words are words, but I know her heart and it doesn’t even matter – and you say what you want to say because I know your heart – and I do not judge that.”
Twitter users called the gaffe ‘an absolutely massive f**kup’ and ‘absurdity at its finest’.
Others criticized Minaj for her endorsement of Trump and Vance, with one user writing: “Nicki Minaj calling Trump and JD Vance ‘down to earth’ and ‘one of us’ tells me everything I need to know about how far celebrity wealth can detach someone from reality.”
Following on from this, the star now may have deleted her account entirely, though there isn’t anything to definitively link the move with her comments to Kirk.Some fans have pointed out that Minaj would regularly deactivate her account, with her taking it down in October.
But it appears she may have reactivated it ahead of the event only to go a step further and delete it.
However some have argued regardless of deleting her page, the rapper will be perfectly fine.
One fan wrote: “Yesterday, She had more streams than cardi and Megan combined. I think she’ll be ok losing some lefty fans.”
With another simply writing: “She don’t care! She rich …”
Multiple petitions have arisen calling for Nicki Minaj to be deported from the US following a furious backlash from her fans.
Nicki Minaj has been one of the most popular music artists over the last decade; however, many of her former fans have taken to social media to dismiss the star.
The 43-year-old rapper has recently shown public support for conservative figures, including Donald Trump, much to the ire of her fanbase.
But anger seemed to boil over when the rapper attended a Turning Point USA event as a surprise guest back in December, sharing the stage with conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk.
The frustrations with the artist may have reached a new level as Minaj now has to contend with two petitions calling for her deportation.
One Change.org petition has so far been signed by more than 46,000 people, while another has more than 87,000 signatures, both calling for her deportation to Trinidad and Tobago, where she was born.
This comes after Minaj had previously admitted that she came into the country illegally at the age of five.In a 2018 post criticizing Trump over his immigration stance, she wrote on Instagram: “I came to this country as an illegal immigrant.
“I can’t imagine the horror of being in a strange place & having my parents stripped away from me at the age of five.”
In 2024 during a TikTok live, she said she never officially became a US citizen.
Minaj explained: “You would think that with the millions of dollars that I’ve paid in taxes to this country that I would have been given an honorary citizenship many, many, many thousands of years ago.”
So, the big question is, do any of these petitions have any weight behind them?Well, no, not really.
Despite Minaj’s comments that she came into the country illegally as a child and is not a US citizen, she does hold a green card.
These are issued to non-US citizens and allow them to live and work in the country, giving them permanent residency in the US.
Therefore, despite people’s frustrations with her recent support of conservative figures, she cannot be deported.
The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) charity has previously commented on the legality of deporting an individual for voicing an opinion.
The charity has said: “Criticizing U.S. foreign policy, or voicing any other opinion, is protected by the First Amendment – no matter your immigration status.”
So it is unlikely that the petitions will lead to any actual action.
