{"id":2418199,"date":"2026-05-15T15:16:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2418199"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:16:55","slug":"nicki-minaj-says-trump-support-makes-her-a-catalyst-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/nicki-minaj-says-trump-support-makes-her-a-catalyst-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj says Trump support makes her a &#8216;catalyst&#8217; for change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<hr class=\"colorbar section-entertainment\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"display-5 subhead spacer-small\">The outspoken rapper has become a prominent ally of President Trump in recent months.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/02\/03\/USAT\/88493662007-2258679012.jpg?crop=4650,2616,x0,y0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>Nicki Minaj explains support for President Trump in new interview<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive clip from &#8220;The Katie Miller Podcast,&#8221; obtained by Fox News, Nicki Minaj opens up about why she supports President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2026\/04\/23\/nicki-minaj-to-attend-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/89753939007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nicki Minaj<\/a> wants to make Hollywood great again \u2013 or at least, a little more honest.<\/p>\n<p>The Grammy-nominated rapper, 43, opened up about her support of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a> in an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/05\/14\/nicki-minaj-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Time magazine<\/a> published Wednesday, May 13.<\/p>\n<p>Minaj has found herself in the political spotlight in recent months due to her vocal allyship with the president. In January, Minaj\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2026\/01\/28\/nicki-minaj-trump-gold-card\/88406161007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attended the Trump Accounts Summit<\/a>, touting herself as &#8220;probably the president&#8217;s No. 1 fan.&#8221; That same month, she attended a screening of first lady <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/melania-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Melania Trump<\/a>&#8216;s documentary, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2026\/04\/10\/melania-trump-amazon-streaming-ratings\/89551724007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Melania,&#8221;<\/a> at the newly renamed\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/01\/22\/democrats-trump-name-kennedy-center-building\/88281261007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump-Kennedy Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many celebrities feel the way I do, but they don&#8217;t say it,&#8221; Minaj told Time. &#8220;Sometimes, you just need one brave person to get the brunt of the impact. I think I am the catalyst for that change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;Hopefully, when they see me and hear me speak and feel my energy, that will make them say, &#8216;You know what: Who am I afraid of? What am I afraid of?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minaj, who paid a visit to Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago residence in South Florida for the interview, praised the president for his charisma: &#8220;It&#8217;s the same way Marilyn Monroe represents a vibe. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/donald-trump\/\" data-autotag=\"26f031d1-9924-4f10-b4e6-019d076113d5\">Donald Trump<\/a> is his own vibe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Super Freaky Girl&#8221; emcee said she&#8217;s been a longtime supporter of Trump but held off on voicing her political beliefs because of possible backlash from her music industry peers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Nicki Minaj speaks out: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2026\/02\/03\/nicki-minaj-trump-support-katie-miller-podcast\/88490057007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Rapper says &#8216;bullying&#8217; of Trump propelled her into politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt that way already about him, just that I didn&#8217;t dare act like that publicly,&#8221; Minaj said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been ingrained in everyone&#8217;s brain in the music business that we are supposed to be a Democratic family. I just knew they would not like me supporting Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minaj also cited her disappointment with Trump&#8217;s predecessor, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2026\/05\/14\/barack-obama-stephen-colbert-late-show-interview\/90045594007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">former President Barack Obama<\/a>, and his friendship with Minaj&#8217;s hip-hop rival, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2026\/03\/24\/jay-z-gq-lawsuit-diddy-kendrick-lamar-drake-blue-ivy\/89300089007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jay-Z<\/a>, as a motivator for her Trump support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Jay-Z ended up costing Obama a lot, whether he knows it or not,&#8221; Minaj said. &#8220;Lots of rappers don&#8217;t like Jay-Z and were afraid to say it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Nicki Minaj and Donald Trump: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2026\/01\/28\/nicki-minaj-trump-gold-card\/88406161007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Rapper snags Trump gold card after saying she is his &#8216;No. 1 fan&#8217;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In her personal life, Minaj said the support she received from the Republican Party after a series of alleged swatting incidents at her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2026\/04\/02\/nicki-minaj-home-trespassing-arrest\/89433694007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Los Angeles home<\/a> helped change her perspective on her political advocacy. Florida congresswoman <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/04\/30\/cia-mkultra-program-court-hearing\/89871256007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anna Paulina Luna<\/a> reportedly reached out to Minaj and connected her with federal law-enforcement officials and a private security firm she uses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d never seen anyone in politics treat me that way,&#8221; Minaj said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what made me say that I don&#8217;t care to keep this a secret anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/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.usatoday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outspoken rapper has become a prominent ally of President Trump in recent months. Nicki Minaj explains support for President Trump in new interview In an exclusive clip from &#8220;The Katie Miller Podcast,&#8221; obtained by Fox News, Nicki Minaj opens up about why she supports President Donald Trump. Nicki Minaj wants to make Hollywood great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2418200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[39915,22220,420115,22466,305469,21751,239390,305457,22389,6297,21741,305468,305473,21944,22240,239389,21739,298114,22008,420485,314148,369780,31122,437205,427204,74947,21738,437204,335498,30600,346675,239343,239420,66251,22048,35643,377285,381457,27158,239345,24638,239344,100640,239391],"class_list":["post-2418199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-barack","tag-barack-obama","tag-branch","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","tag-donald","tag-donald-trump","tag-eamotion","tag-entertainment","tag-executive","tag-executive-branch","tag-hip-hop","tag-life","tag-life-now","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-magazine","tag-marilyn","tag-marilyn-monroe","tag-melania","tag-melania-trump","tag-minaj","tag-monroe","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-nicki","tag-nicki-minaj","tag-now","tag-obama","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-point","tag-politics","tag-the","tag-time","tag-time-magazine","tag-to","tag-to-the-point","tag-trump","tag-u0026","tag-urban","tag-urban-u0026-hip-hop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Nicki-Minaj-says-Trump-support-makes-her-a-catalyst-for-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418199","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=2418199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418201,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418199\/revisions\/2418201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2418200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2418199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2418199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}