![\"Drag](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1c072cd5b6208fcc815928690a59f2d7.jpeg\"\/)
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Drag queens cosplayed as Melania Trump, Erika Kirk and others at an ACLU fundraiser parody event.Wikimedia Commons\/R\u00e9gine Mahaux; Wikimedia Commons\/Gage Skidmore<\/p>\n
A fundraising event that took place in Brooklyn, New York, has drawn significant attention after a group of drag artists cosplayed as several well-known MAGA women, including Melania Trump and Erika Kirk, among others.<\/p>\n
Notably, the drag artists raised $20,000 for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) at the parody event.<\/p>\n
Drag Artists Cosplay as MAGA Personalities<\/p>\n
On April 16, a group of drag artists came together for a fundraiser at the parody event, which was titled Turning Point U.S. Gay.<\/p>\n
According to a video shared by Newsweek on its YouTube<\/a>account, the artists were seen dressed up as MAGA personalities, like Erika Kirk, Melania Trump, Pam Bondi, Bryon Noem and Nicki Minaj, among others.<\/p>\n ACLU, for which the fundraising event was organized, works to defend the rights and liberties of an individual promised by the laws and Constitution of the United States.<\/p>\n The event featured RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni Brita Filter and Plasma, who appeared as Minaj and Bondi respectively, reports the Irish Star.<\/p>\n One performer drew attention by placing balloons under a shirt while portraying Bryon, referencing the latter’s reported cross-dressing scandal that recently took the internet by storm.<\/p>\n The Daily Mail previously reported that Byron had paid $25,000 to adult entertainers to help him with his “bimbofication.”<\/p>\n The reports had also suggested that Byron “confessed his l*st for ‘huge, huge ridiculous b****.'”<\/p>\n This reportedly left his wife and former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem<\/a> “devastated.”<\/p>\n At the parody event, performer Kiki Ball Change cosplayed as Melania, wearing a coat and an oversized hat while lip-syncing a speech.<\/p>\n According to her TikTok, the lip-synced material included, “Hello Santa and Mrs. Claus. How does Santa go down the chimney? How does Santa do it? How does it work? Can Santa see in the dark? Does he wear night vision goggles? That makes everyone\u2026 make everything green? I bet he’d like that.”<\/p>\n Lauren Bacall, another performer known for her Erika Kirk skits, appeared as the chief executive of Turning Point USA, drawing cheers from the crowd before delivering a performance that included a dramatized version of Erika’s speaking style.<\/p>\n ‘This Is Gonna Be on Fox News’<\/p>\n Ball Change shared a preview of her Melania costume on TikTok, drawing responses from viewers. Netizens shared their opinions regarding the event and the performance of the artists.<\/p>\n One user wrote, “The start of a horror movie trailer.”<\/p>\n Another wrote, “I’m feeling haunted and slightly jolly.” A third user commented, \u201cThis is absolute cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPLEASE TELL ME IT TRANSITIONED INTO FORMATION,\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n One individual stated, \u201cOmg it\u2019s so creepy.\u201d Another user, \u201cThis is gonna be on Fox News.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at Morning Honey. <\/a><\/p>\n Get Morning Honey delivered right to your inbox. Sign up now<\/a>.<\/p>\n FOLLOW MORNING HONEY ON WHATSAPP HERE<\/a>: Stay across all the latest in celebrity, entertainment, and pop culture via our WhatsApp channel<\/a>. No comments, no algorithm and nobody can see your private details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drag queens cosplayed as Melania Trump, Erika Kirk and others at an ACLU fundraiser parody event.Wikimedia Commons\/R\u00e9gine Mahaux;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[25931,82380,82379,10584,32391,35876,2036,7391,9,24,35921,63,2038,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-207809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-aclu","tag-brita-filter","tag-bryon-noem","tag-drag-queens","tag-erika-kirk","tag-fundraiser","tag-kristi-noem","tag-melania-trump","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nicki-minaj","tag-nyc","tag-pam-bondi","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}