{"id":264349,"date":"2026-02-02T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264349\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:06:08","slug":"nicki-minaj-responds-to-trevor-noahs-grammys-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264349\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj Responds to Trevor Noah\u2019s Grammys Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/nicki-minaj\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nicki-minaj_1\" data-tag=\"nicki-minaj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicki Minaj<\/a> has been responding to Grammys host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/trevor-noah\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trevor-noah_1\" data-tag=\"trevor-noah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Noah<\/a> for skewering her support for President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump_1\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> and her absence from the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/music\/music-news\/2026-grammys-winners-list-1236484722\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/music\/music-news\/2026-grammys-winners-list-1236484722\/\"> music awards show<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cAs they do their ritual tonight, God almighty will reveal himself to them. The ritual will backfire on them. God will not be mocked. Blessed is the MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS CHRIST. Every tongue that rises up against me in judgement shall be condemned &amp; put to shame,\u201d the \u201cSuper Freaky Girl\u201d rapper said on her <a rel=\"nofollow\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NICKIMINAJ\/status\/2018182476233846940\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NICKIMINAJ\/status\/2018182476233846940\" target=\"_blank\">X account<\/a> on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThis follows a slew of posts from Minaj on her<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NICKIMINAJ\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NICKIMINAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> Twitter feed <\/a>after Noah made his opening monologue jokes, including a homophobic insult at the host.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMinaj\u2019s praise for the president has drawn criticism following her\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/politics-news\/nicki-minaj-praises-trump-turning-point-usa-americafest-1236456266\/\">appearance at Turning Point USA\u2019s AmericaFest<\/a>\u00a0in December. During his opening monologue from the Crypto.com Arena stage Sunday night, as Noah introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/music\/\" id=\"auto-tag_music_1\" data-tag=\"music\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a> legends in the audience, the Grammys host suddenly interjected with a mocking tone \u201cNicki Minaj is\u00a0not\u00a0here, not here. She is still at the White House with Donald Trump discussing very important issues.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNoah then imagined a conversation between Minaj and the president as he did a Trump impression: \u201cActually, Nicki, I have the biggest ass. I have it. Everybody is saying it, Nicki. I know they say it to you, but it\u2019s me. Look at it baby: WAP, WAP, WAP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDuring her appearance at Turning Point USA\u2019s AmericaFest, Minaj told Erika Kirk, the organization\u2019s CEO and Charlie Kirk\u2019s widow, that she has \u201cthe utmost respect and admiration for our president. I don\u2019t know if he even knows this, but he\u2019s given so many people hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNoah\u2019s sixth and final hosting gig for the Grammys had him taking aim at president Trump as part of a 68th annual awards show that had the country\u2019s political tensions as a recurring theme as winners accepted trophies on stage or talked to the media afterwards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj has been responding to Grammys host Trevor Noah for skewering her support for President Donald Trump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[65,156,26626,46109,157,111,139,29698,69,91665],"class_list":{"0":"post-264349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-grammy-awards","11":"tag-grammys-2026","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nicki-minaj","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-trevor-noah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264349","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=264349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}