Nicki Minaj surprises conservatives with praise for Trump, Vance at Arizona event

ThatRobGuy · Dec 24, 2025

Nicki Minaj surprises conservatives with praise for Trump, Vance at Arizona event

Rapper Nicki Minaj has made a surprise appearance at a gathering of conservatives in Arizona. Speaking on stage at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest convention, the artist praised President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, calling them “role models” for young men.

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Rapper Nicki Minaj on Sunday made a surprise appearance at a gathering of conservatives in Arizona that was memorializing late activist Charlie Kirk

jacks · Dec 24, 2025

A women! A rapper! Saying nice things about Trump! Well at least she is white...oh wait!

askesis · Dec 24, 2025

All kinds of people are taken back. But what's she going to do? If you're not a citizen of this country, and you have pull, you might as well hedge your bets and go with the sure bet.

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Matt5 · Dec 25, 2025

Did she have a dream or something? Why the change?

I wonder what this will do to her fan base?

FenderTL5 · Dec 25, 2025

It makes perfect sense that she'd butter-up the current head of the executive branch, since he's sympathetic to both flattery and sex offenders.
It could lead to a pardon for her husband who is serving time for sex crime(s).

BPPLEE · Dec 25, 2025

FenderTL5 said:
It makes perfect sense that she'd butter-up the current head of the executive branch, since he's sympathetic to both flattery and sex offenders.
It could lead to a pardon for her husband who is serving time for sex crime(s).

He was under house arrest for failing to register as a sex offender back in 2022.
It was one year of home detention

Nicki Minaj's husband Kenneth Petty sentenced to one-year house arrest

Kenneth Petty, who failed to update his sex offender status when the couple moved, was also fined.

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durangodawood · Dec 25, 2025

ThatRobGuy said:
Nicki Minaj surprises conservatives with praise for Trump, Vance at Arizona event

Rapper Nicki Minaj has made a surprise appearance at a gathering of conservatives in Arizona. Speaking on stage at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest convention, the artist praised President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, calling them “role models” for young men.

apnews.com

Rapper Nicki Minaj on Sunday made a surprise appearance at a gathering of conservatives in Arizona that was memorializing late activist Charlie Kirk

Oooh a celebrity! We havent heard enough from them lately.

RileyG · Dec 25, 2025

FenderTL5 said:
It makes perfect sense that she'd butter-up the current head of the executive branch, since he's sympathetic to both flattery and sex offenders.
It could lead to a pardon for her husband who is serving time for sex crime(s).

I swore she was asexual. I’m probably confusing her with someone else.

RileyG · Dec 25, 2025

ThatRobGuy said:
Nicki Minaj surprises conservatives with praise for Trump, Vance at Arizona event

Rapper Nicki Minaj has made a surprise appearance at a gathering of conservatives in Arizona. Speaking on stage at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest convention, the artist praised President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, calling them “role models” for young men.

apnews.com

Rapper Nicki Minaj on Sunday made a surprise appearance at a gathering of conservatives in Arizona that was memorializing late activist Charlie Kirk

Eh? Freedom of speech.

ThatRobGuy · Dec 26, 2025

durangodawood said:
Oooh a celebrity! We havent heard enough from them lately.

I seem to recall a slightly different tone from some folks when it was her "Partner in rap" Cardi B conducting an interview with Biden.

ThatRobGuy · Dec 26, 2025

Matt5 said:
Did she have a dream or something? Why the change?

I wonder what this will do to her fan base?

As far as her fan base for her actual "music" (and not the ones who were merely following on instagram), probably not much.

The people who would be the most offended by this (who were actually in the target demo) are the suburban white college women.

That's perhaps one striking cultural difference I've noticed between White people and Black people with regards to product consumption (whether that product be food, music, movies, etc.)

White people are more prone to do the whole "even though I like the product, I'm going to avoid it because I don't like the politics of the person who made it"

Snoop Dogg, Chris Brown, Rick Ross, Kodak Black, Lil Wayne and Nelly all either voiced support for Trump or even performed at an event for him. As far as I know, none have had any sort of earth shattering erosion in their fan base as a result.

durangodawood · Dec 26, 2025

ThatRobGuy said:
.....Snoop Dogg, Chris Brown, Rick Ross, Kodak Black, Lil Wayne and Nelly all either voiced support for Trump or even performed at an event for him. As far as I know, none have had any sort of earth shattering erosion in their fan base as a result.

And Kanye!

durangodawood · Dec 26, 2025

ThatRobGuy said:
I seem to recall a slightly different tone from some folks when it was her "Partner in rap" Cardi B conducting an interview with Biden.

Yes Im quite sure many people take a different tone than I do.

ThatRobGuy · Dec 26, 2025

durangodawood said:
And Kanye!

As far as I know, there are still people who listen to him.

Music is one of those things where it's not as "easily boycotted" for a lack of a better term (I would lump filmmakers in the same category to an extent as well)

It's not like chain stores and restaurants.

If the heads of Walmart do something someone doesn't like, there's always Target (and vice versa)
If McDonalds does something politically unsavory in someone's view, there's always 5 other fast food options

As where Musicians & Filmmakers are a little more "one of a kind"

Saying "I'm going to buy my Cascade dishwasher tabs at this other grocery store instead, even if it costs $0.79 more, because I don't like with the CEO of this other store said",
vs
"I'm really in the mood to listen to that one song by So & So, but they said/did something I didn't like, so I'm going to listen to this other artist from the same genre instead"... doesn't really work the same way.

durangodawood · Dec 26, 2025

ThatRobGuy said:
As far as I know, there are still people who listen to him.

Music is one of those things where it's not as "easily boycotted" for a lack of a better term (I would lump filmmakers in the same category to an extent as well)

It's not like chain stores and restaurants.

If the heads of Walmart do something someone doesn't like, there's always Target (and vice versa)
If McDonalds does something politically unsavory in someone's view, there's always 5 other fast food options

As where Musicians & Filmmakers are a little more "one of a kind"

Saying "I'm going to buy my Cascade dishwasher tabs at this other grocery store instead, even if it costs $0.79 more, because I don't like with the CEO of this other store said",
vs
"I'm really in the mood to listen to that one song by So & So, but they said/did something I didn't like, so I'm going to listen to this other artist from the same genre instead"... doesn't really work the same way.

Tbh when I hear certain Ted Nugent songs I turn them up. Of course. They rock! (Others tho are harder to stomach - not because of politics, but just a certain shade of fundamental creepness underlying them.)

And my ex GF really hates Trump but still cant cut Kanye totally loose.

Regardless...... Im not sure how all this is important. Are these celebs trying to reverse the growing Trump skepticism out there? Is it working?

ThatRobGuy · Dec 26, 2025

durangodawood said:
Tbh when I hear certain Ted Nugent songs I turn them up. Of course. They rock!

And my ex GF really hates Trump but still cant cut Kanye totally loose.

Regardless...... Im not sure how all this is important. Are these celebs trying to reverse the growing Trump skepticism out there?

I think in the case of some of these musicians (in particular, the ones that have gone from left to right)

Nobody wanted to be the "first" to take that leap. Because nobody knew what the risks were

They probably still have memories of what happened to the Dixie Chicks when they went against the political grain of the genre they were in and paid a heavy monetary price for it. because while people on the left appreciated their messaging, the people on the left they were appealing to with it weren't going to magically start liking country music overnight and buy their albums

But right from the get go, it's probably always been in Nicki Minaj's financial interests to be a republican, she's a mega millionaire who's probably paying a ton in both income and property taxes

She lives in LA now, which means she's not getting a great return on investment from all of those taxes, she wouldn't be the first well-to-do person in that area who's perhaps become a little disenfranchised with the way things are being run out there. Like anyone else, she probably doesn't want to walk down the streets and see tents and human dung on the sidewalk, and doesn't want lawlessness when she travels into the city

And like I touched on earlier, with regards to some of the social issues, despite typically voting for the same party, there are differences between the Black & Hispanic community vs. Progressive White communities. (especially among the women from those cohorts, particularly in how they view men/masculinity)

RileyG · Dec 26, 2025

ThatRobGuy said:
I seem to recall a slightly different tone from some folks when it was her "Partner in rap" Cardi B conducting an interview with Biden.

I can never keep track of them. Celebrities change their opinions all the time, eh?

DaisyDay · Saturday at 6:01 AM

RileyG said:
I can never keep track of them. Celebrities change their opinions all the time, eh?

It's a bit difficult to even pretend to care.

durangodawood · Saturday at 10:14 AM

ThatRobGuy said:
They probably still have memories of what happened to the Dixie Chicks when they went against the political grain of the genre they were in and paid a heavy monetary price for it. because while people on the left appreciated their messaging, the people on the left they were appealing to with it weren't going to magically start liking country music overnight and buy their albums

It kind of sad how right Dixie Chicks were in hindsight. I mean the anti Iraq war lefties were always with them. And now the MAGAs in their delayed hindsight are skeptical of huge new faked up wars too.... at least until Trump tells them otherwise.

ThatRobGuy said:
But right from the get go, it's probably always been in Nicki Minaj's financial interests to be a republican, she's a mega millionaire who's probably paying a ton in both income and property taxes

Could well be that shes taken up 1% er causes.

ThatRobGuy said:
She lives in LA now, which means she's not getting a great return on investment from all of those taxes, she wouldn't be the first well-to-do person in that area who's perhaps become a little disenfranchised with the way things are being run out there. Like anyone else, she probably doesn't want to walk down the streets and see tents and human dung on the sidewalk, and doesn't want lawlessness when she travels into the city

The biggest change there had nothing to do with elections, but was instead the supreme court letting cities and counties out of their straightjacket where they couldnt enforce anti street camping laws and so on.

RileyG · Saturday at 2:15 PM

DaisyDay said:
It's a bit difficult to even pretend to care.

Yeah, they’re people like anyone else. Doesn’t change my life in the slightest what their views are.

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