Nicki Minaj is relishing within the rewards for her latest assist for the MAGA motion.
The Grammy-nominated rapper, who declared herself to be President Trump’s “No. 1 fan” on Wednesday, later took to social media to indicate off her Trump “Gold Card,” a brand new program that gives a fast-track for rich immigrants to realize authorized U.S. residency and ultimately a pathway to citizenship.
For most people, the Gold Card prices $1 million, plus a $15,000 screening charge. However Minaj, a local of Trinidad and Tobago, stated her card got here “free of charge.”
She boasted about her newest bling in a put up on X, sharing a photograph of the shiny card emblazoned with Trump’s face.
“Finalizing that citizenship paperwork as we speak as per my wonderful, gracious, charming president … I wouldn’t have done it without you,” she wrote in a follow-up put up, referring to herself as “CitizenNIKA.”
Nicki Minaj posted a photograph of her Trump gold card on X. (Nicki Minaj/X)
Minaj, whose authorized identify is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, got here to the U.S. along with her mother and father as a baby and was raised in Queens, New York.
Throughout a TikTok streaming session in 2024, the 43-year-old revealed that she nonetheless was “not a citizen of America.”
“Isn’t that crazy?” she requested earlier than explaining her origin. “I was born on a beautiful island called Trinidad and Tobago, but I’ve been in the States for many years. You would think that with the millions of dollars that I’ve paid in taxes to this country that I would have been given an honorary citizenship many, many, many thousands of years ago.”
Years earlier than she started cozying as much as Trump, Minaj criticized the U.S. authorities’s family-separation insurance policies when sharing her personal story of unlawful immigration.
However inside the previous few months, amid controversy surrounding the polarizing presence of ICE brokers in American cities, the previous chart-topper has embraced right-wing political leanings — and has misplaced a slew of followers within the course of.
Nicki Minaj and President Donald Trump stand on stage collectively throughout an occasion for “Trump Accounts” at Carnegie Mellon Auditorium, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Picture/Jose Luis Magana)
She was seen holding arms with Trump on Wednesday throughout a summit in Washington, D.C. to advertise his new child financial savings account program.
“I will say that I am probably the president’s No. 1 fan, and that’s not going to change,” she stated after Trump invited her to talk onstage. “The hate — or what people have to say — it does not affect me at all. It actually motivates me to support him more.”
