Minaj said: \u201cI felt that same, you know, a lot of the bullying in this man\u2019s campaign, and all of the lying.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt that that had been done to me for so many years, and I was watching it in real time happen to someone else, and I didn\u2019t think he deserved it. And it made me think, I can\u2019t do this anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minaj \u2013 who was born in the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago before arriving in the US as a child \u2013 said she has long had a sense she was being pulled into something away from music as she started paying closer attention to Trump during the 2024 presidential election campaign.<\/p>\n
In a clip posted to X, the Starships rapper cryptically said: \u201cDuring the last [presidential] campaign… I saw something, and I texted someone I knew right away, and I said, \u2018This is a mistake.\u2019 And I also said, \u2018All of this is making me want to get into politics.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then there was something that happened a few months ago that, if I wasn\u2019t going to do it before… I don\u2019t want to talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cI will say, sometimes people can push you so much, that they push you all the way into your next calling.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what happened with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nicki joined Trump on stage in Washington DC last week, where she described herself as the President\u2019s biggest fan.<\/p>\n
The star said: \u201cI will say that I am probably the President\u2019s number one fan, and that\u2019s not going to change.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the hate or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all. It actually motivates me to support him more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minaj said: \u201cI felt that same, you know, a lot of the bullying in this man\u2019s campaign, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[32319,17517,4057,3620,430,37637,2178,156,185,86384,111,139,86383,69,1118,2572,312,1886,25447,2179,3040,1337],"class_list":["post-265097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-backs","tag-because","tag-behind","tag-bullying","tag-celebrities","tag-directed","tag-donald","tag-entertainment","tag-is","tag-minaj","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nicki","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-president","tag-says","tag-support","tag-thrown","tag-trump","tag-us","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265097","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=265097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}