Nicki Minaj got here out as a full-blown MAGA supporter throughout her shock look at a Sunday occasion held by Turning Level USA, a nonprofit co-founded by the late conservative provocateur Charlie Kirk. Within the wake of her look, a video of Kirk criticizing the rapper has resurfaced on social media.
Recorded throughout an April 2024 campus debate, the clip exhibits Kirk labeling Minaj as a nasty position mannequin for younger Black ladies. Nonetheless, his full remark suggests Kirk might have confused Nicki along with her fiercest rival, Cardi B, as he referenced the latter’s smash hit “WAP” with Megan Thee Stallion.
“Black tradition is being held captive by influences, songs, and position fashions,” he stated. “Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, I don’t suppose that’s an excellent position mannequin for 18-year-old Black women. I don’t suppose that songs which might be speaking about glorifying moist feminine genitalia — I don’t know which one wrote that track.”
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To additional complicate issues, conservative pundit Candace Owens shared screenshots in October of a purported 2018 textual content trade with Kirk. Within the messages, he praised Minaj’s breakout verse on Kanye West’s “Monster.”
“When Nicky drops I lose my thoughts,” Kirk wrote, notably mispelling the rapper’s title.
Kirk additionally tweeted in support of Minaj in September 2021 after she claimed her Twitter account was suspended for spreading COVID-19 misinformation.
“Democrats’ remedy of Nicki Minaj ought to be all of the proof you want that they don’t care about black folks, particularly these they will’t management,” he wrote. “They simply use them each 4 years for his or her votes. However individuals are waking up.”
In brief, Kirk’s stance on Minaj on the time of his assassination in September 2025 stays unclear.
Regardless, Minaj was warmly obtained throughout her Q&A session together with his widow, Erika Kirk, at Turning Level USA’s AmericaFest. Vice President JD Vance, whom Nicki playfully praised as a political “murderer,” wrote an effusive tweet in assist of the rapper following the occasion.
Right here’s what Charlie Kirk thought of you, @NICKIMINAJ.
“I don’t suppose that’s an excellent position mannequin for 18-year-old black women.” pic.twitter.com/QuvMTHcbAE
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) December 23, 2025
