{"id":2259182,"date":"2026-01-31T02:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2259182"},"modified":"2026-01-31T02:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:21:11","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-mocks-trumps-new-friendship-with-nicki-minaj-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jimmy-kimmel-mocks-trumps-new-friendship-with-nicki-minaj-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Trump\u2019s New Friendship With Nicki Minaj | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/jimmy-kimmel\/\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> is puzzled by the new friendship between <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/nicki-minaj\/\">Nicki Minaj<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>, especially given the current situation going on with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1242409\/the-view-whoopi-goldberg-sunny-hostin-celebrity-statements-ice\/\">ICE rounding up undocumented immigrants.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the late-night host pointed out on Thursday\u2019s (January 29) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/jimmy-kimmel-live\/\"><em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em><\/a>, Minaj herself is a non-U.S. citizen who came to the country as an undocumented immigrant from Trinidad. \u201cShe is exactly who ICE has been rounding up,\u201d Kimmel said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"piano-in-article\">\n<p>\u201cBut he invites her to the Oval Office,\u201d he continued. \u201cIf you\u2019re Nicki Minaj and you pledge allegiance to Orange Julius, it\u2019s different, I guess. So different, in fact, that Nicki Minaj is now in possession of a Trump gold card.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Kimmel noted, Trump is selling these gold cards for \u201cone million dollars a pop,\u201d which grants the buyer permanent resident status in the U.S.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump Celebrates Melania\u2019s Movie Premiere, Has New BFF Nicki Minaj &amp; Government Shutdown Looms\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jWrEsPjZ8LY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cBut [Minaj] didn\u2019t buy one. She said she got it for free,\u201d he added. \u201c[Trump] gave it to her. She gets a gold card. He gets a famous Black friend. It\u2019s what you call the art of the deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just nuts,\u201d Kimmel went on. \u201cHe can\u2019t just comp someone because she kisses his big white ass. I mean, he really thinks that he owns the country. Is he going to start handing our stuff out now? \u2018Nicki, how do you like a monument? What do you want? Washington? No. Lincoln? Take a Lincoln. What about a nuclear weapon? You could use it on Cardi B.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Thursday\u2019s monologue, Kimmel continued to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1242330\/jimmy-kimmel-melania-trump-documentary-amazon-prime-video\/\">mock Melania Trump\u2019s new self-titled Amazon documentary<\/a>, which had its red carpet premiere on Wednesday night (January 28).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot since <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/the-terminator\/\"><em>The Terminator<\/em><\/a> has there been this much excitement for a movie about a European cyborg,\u201d the comedian quipped before turning his focus to the caliber of celebrity in attendance at the big event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong the luminaries in attendance were Beyonc\u00e9, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lady Gaga\u2026 Oh no, wait, it was Dr. Phil and Waka Flocka Flame,\u201d Kimmel joked. \u201cThe guest list also included disgraced former New York City mayor Eric Adams, Dr. Oz, Todd and Julie Chrisley, RFK\u2026 it was either a movie premiere or Season 35 of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/dancing-with-the-stars\/\"><em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full opening monologue in the video above and let us know your thoughts below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-block\">\n<div class=\"post-block\">\n<p><strong><em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em>, Weeknights, 11:35\/10:35c, ABC<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>More Headlines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.gjsentinel.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Kimmel is puzzled by the new friendship between Nicki Minaj and Donald Trump, especially given the current situation going on with ICE rounding up undocumented immigrants. As the late-night host pointed out on Thursday\u2019s (January 29) Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Minaj herself is a non-U.S. citizen who came to the country as an undocumented immigrant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2086256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[23060,21738,21902,137882,137883],"class_list":["post-2259182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-news","tag-ntvb_media","tag-syndicate","tag-syndicate-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Big-Ticket-gjsentinelcom.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259183,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259182\/revisions\/2259183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2086256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}