Nicki Minaj posted on social media this weekend about how nonchalant she is. The 43-year-old rapper wrote, “By now, they’ve learned that hate does not move me. I wasn’t made with that gene. Love does, [though]. Sometimes.
Recently, Justin Bieber (Minaj’s former friend and collaborator) performed at Coachella without playing their hit track “Beauty and a Beat,” and as a result, fans lost it on the internet. Also, the rapper has been the target of harsh criticism for publicly backing Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, which she now wants to distance herself from, but has failed to do.
One person commented, “If hate didn’t move you, this tweet wouldn’t exist.” An AI-generated GIF of Minaj being thrown into a trash can came next. “Trying so hard to look unbothered,” wrote a third, “Main character energy with no audience.”
Longtime fans have taken issue with Minaj’s MAGA turnaround. She had publicly denounced Trump’s immigration policies back in 2018, writing on Facebook that she “came to this country as an illegal immigrant” from Trinidad and Tobago. “I can’t imagine (…) being in a strange place and having my parents stripped away from me at the age of five,” she wrote then. “This is so scary.”
Yet, in January 2026, Minaj was holding hands with Trump on stage at a “Trump Accounts” meeting at the US Treasury Department. This government program establishes $1,000 trust funds for young people who qualify, according to the BBC. “I am probably the president’s number one fan, and that’s not going to change,” she said to those in attendance.
“The hate or what people have to say — it does not affect me at all. It actually motivates me to support him more.”
Apart from that, Minaj flashed what she called a “Trump Gold Card,” which is the administration’s $1 million pay-to-play residency program with a $15,000 processing fee. She posted a picture of a Chucky doll flipping off the camera next to her claim that hers came “free of charge.” Later, a White House official explained that it was just a souvenir. Despite spending decades in the US and paying millions in taxes, the musician reportedly is “finalising that citizenship paperwork as we speak.”
Trump’s gold card scheme, by contrast, has been severely criticized for coexisting with his administration’s crackdowns on immigrants. Minaj once strongly opposed these very standards. In the meantime, artists like Ice-T and Bruce Springsteen have been speaking out against ICE operations that have killed many U.S. citizens and have also released protest music.
Thus, Minaj stands out for supporting a president whose immigration record she used to describe as “scary.”