{"id":443424,"date":"2026-01-30T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443424\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:21:07","slug":"white-house-insider-torpedoes-nicki-minajs-1m-gold-card-flex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443424\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Insider Torpedoes Nicki Minaj\u2019s $1M Gold Card Flex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicki Minaj\u2019s Trump flattery has won her not only pals inside the White House, but also a $1 million Trump Gold Card that has reportedly turned out to be worthless. <\/p>\n

The rapper flaunted the gift bestowed upon her by the \u201cwonderful, gracious, charming President\u201d after she spent the majority of the week positioning herself firmly in the center of MAGA world. <\/p>\n

The 43-year-old star, originally from the Caribbean twin-island of Trinidad and Tobago, and raised in Queens, popped up earlier this week at an event supporting the president\u2019s \u2018Trump Accounts\u2019 initiative. She starred in a TikTok with the soon-to-be octogenarian and snapped selfies with most<\/a> of his close allies (Sorry, Ted Cruz.) She also showed up at the premiere of Melania Trump\u2019s eponymous documentary in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. <\/p>\n

\"PresidentDonald Trump shows off a prototype of his “Gold Card” on Air Force One in April. Mandel Ngan\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n

Her reward for all of this star-spangled flattery? A Trump Gold Card, a \u201cvisa based upon an individual\u2019s ability to provide a substantial benefit to the United States,\u201d according to the administration.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cGold Trump card free of charge,\u201d she boasted in a bizarre X post<\/a> alongside a picture of the horror-film murderous doll Chucky flashing the middle finger. Minaj, who has said previously that she came to the country illegally<\/a>, also said she was now \u201cfinalizing\u201d her citizenship paperwork. <\/p>\n

But if she really believed she\u2019d been given a Trump Gold Card, she\u2019s in for a rude awakening.<\/p>\n

The card she got is a dud, a fake, a mere \u201cmemento,\u201d according to an anonymous White House official who spoke to the New York Times<\/a>. It is not a \u201cvisa document,\u201d the official revealed. <\/p>\n

\"WASHINGTON,Trump and his new bestie during the Treasury Department’s Trump Accounts Summit on Wednesday. Win McNamee\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

The flex from Minaj rings hollow, anyway, as she already appears to have legal status. A Homeland Security Department official said the musician had been a legal permanent resident for around 20 years, meaning she was already eligible to petition for citizenship.<\/p>\n

The Gold Card allows wealthy foreigners who have passed a background check to apply for EB-1 or EB-2 visas\u2014usually reserved for those with \u201cextraordinary ability\u201d\u2014once they have paid $1 million on top of a $15,000 processing fee to the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n

However, legal experts have said courts could still decide that using Trump\u2019s Gold Card route<\/a> to citizenship is illegal because Congress has not approved it. If that were to happen, applicants risk not having their $1 million fee returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj\u2019s Trump flattery has won her not only pals inside the White House, but also a $1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,5322,1971],"class_list":["post-443424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-nicki-minaj","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}