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Donald Trump Declares ‘I Love Nicki Minaj’ at White House Black History Month Reception: ‘She Gets It’

Minaj posted an AI-generated photo of herself with Trump to celebrate Presidents' Day on X.

Donald Trump Declares ‘I Love Nicki Minaj’ at White House Black History Month Reception: ‘She Gets It’

Nicki Minaj joins U.S. President Donald Trump on stage as he delivers remarks during the Treasury Department's Trump Accounts Summit at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium.

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The political love affair between Nicki Minaj and Donald Trump continued on Wednesday (Feb. 18), as Donald Trump gushed about Minaj during his speech at the White House.

Trump gave the Young Money rapper her flowers, calling Minaj “beautiful” and highlighting her political prowess while speaking at the Black History Month event in Washington, D.C.


“How about Nicki Minaj? Do we love Nicki Minaj? I love Nicki Minaj. She was here a couple weeks ago. She’s so beautiful,” Trump raved. “I said, ‘Nicki, you’re so beautiful.’ Her nails are like that long, I said, ‘Nicki are they real?’ She didn’t want to get into that. But she was so beautiful and so great and she gets it, more importantly.”

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Minaj celebrated Presidents’ Day on Monday (Feb. 16) by posting an AI-generated photo to social media of her riding around in a convertible with President Trump while counting money.

The Queens icon also attended the Trump-backed World Liberty Forum event on Wednesday (Feb. 18), which saw Minaj tapped as a keynote speaker for the “Owning the Culture: The Business of Music in a Creator-Led Economy” panel.

Minaj met the president for the first time at the Trump Accounts Summit in Washington, D.C. in January, where she stood alongside Donald Trump and labeled herself the “president’s No. 1 fan.”

“I am probably the president’s No. 1 fan,” Minaj said. “And that’s not going to change. What people have to say, it does not affect me at all. It actually motivates me to support him more. And it’s going to motivate all of us to support him more.”

She continued: “We’re not going to let them get away with bullying him. And you know, the smear campaigns. It’s not going to work. He has a lot of force behind him and God is protecting him.”

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Minaj hasn’t been shy about her support for the Trump administration in recent months. She joined podcaster Katie Miller for an interview earlier in February, where she explained the backlash that Trump faced inspired her to be more outspoken in his corner.

“Religious freedom is something that’s very important to me, but if I’m being honest, President Trump,” she said. “When I saw how he was being treated, over and over and over, I just couldn’t handle it.”

Watch the full clip of Donald Trump speaking about Nicki below.

This article was first published by Billboard U.S.

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