Kirk thanked the Trinidadian musician for her courage as the pair praised one another and discussed the US\u2019 \u201cpersecution\u201d of Christians.<\/p>\n
The Phoenix event was dedicated to Kirk\u2019s late husband Charlie Kirk, who was shot dead at a Utah Valley University speaking appearance on September 10.<\/p>\n
Kirk and Minaj also discussed the erosion of traditional gender roles, expressing anti-trans sentiments as the Starships singer complained that boys aren\u2019t allowed to be masculine, according to the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is nothing wrong with being a boy. How about that? How powerful is that? Boys will be boys and there is nothing wrong with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minaj\u2019s husband Kenneth Petty became a registered sex offender in 1995 following his conviction for attempted sexual assault.<\/p>\n
She spoke at the New York United Nations in November, joining US ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz to speak about the persecution of Christians in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
She had previously been critical of the world leader, claiming she would not jump on the Trump \u201cbandwagon\u201d in 2020.<\/p>\n
However, more recently, Minaj has openly supported right-leaning policies, responding to criticism of her alignment with the current administration in a series of posts.<\/p>\n
\u201cImagine hearing that Christians are being MURDERED & making it about you being gay,\u201d she wrote on X.<\/p>\n
In a follow-up reply, she said \u201cimagine hearing that Christians are being persecuted & not being able to have empathy for THEM b\/c you are blinded by your own personal obsession with Trump\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirk thanked the Trinidadian musician for her courage as the pair praised one another and discussed the US\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28358,95,27605,16425,1975,19765,91612,1359,2178,156,83897,8231,121143,18153,1362,86384,111,139,86383,69,423,35115,88,61,2179,25809,3337],"class_list":["post-195767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alongside","tag-and","tag-appearance","tag-appears","tag-at","tag-conservative","tag-dashing","tag-described","tag-donald","tag-entertainment","tag-erika","tag-event","tag-handsome","tag-kirk","tag-made","tag-minaj","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nicki","tag-nz","tag-point","tag-praise","tag-surprise","tag-to","tag-trump","tag-turning","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}