Backstage at the Mellon Auditorium, Trump’s media team captured a TikTok exchange calibrated for virality: Trump crowned Minaj the “Queen of Rap,” and she returned the compliment, calling him her favorite President. “I am probably the President’s No. 1 fan,” she told the audience, “and that’s not going to change.”
Since then, Minaj has only become a bigger booster. She has advocated for legislation, known as the SAFE Act, to impose national requirements that Americans show ID to vote. In multiple posts and interviews, Minaj has encouraged her followers online to push their Representatives in Congress to vote for it. Law-enforcement authorities have found no evidence of widespread voter fraud, but Minaj, like Trump, argues that elections have been rigged by sinister forces. “People are voting that aren’t supposed to vote,” she says, without offering specifics. In our conversation, she speaks with instinctive confidence in Trump’s false assertions about the 2020 election. “Obviously, I do not know, but I know that if he comes out and says it, that he’s done his due diligence, and I know that he’s not just making it up,” she says.
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