Nicki Minaj stood on stage at the Treasury Department on Wednesday, draped in white fur, and told a room full of people that she is Donald Trump’s biggest supporter on the planet.
“I am probably the president’s number one fan, and that’s not going to change,” the rapper said at the Trump Accounts Summit in Washington, D.C. “And the hate or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all. It actually motivates me to support him more. And it’s gonna motivate all of us to support him more.”
Trump had called her up to the stage moments earlier, and after her declaration, he offered a response that immediately rippled across social media.
“We did pretty well with your community,” he told her.
He did not elaborate on which community he meant.
Nicki Minaj spotted holding hands with president Trump on Fox News
“I’m his No 1 fan, Everything he does is good ”
— Red Media (@RedMedia_us) January 28, 2026
‘God Is Protecting Him’
Minaj wasn’t done. She pivoted to defending the president against what she characterized as a coordinated campaign to tear him down.
“We’re not going to let them get away with bullying him and the smear campaigns,” she said, her voice firm. “It’s not gonna work, OK? He has a lot of force behind him, and God is protecting him. Amen.”
Trump, for his part, seemed less interested in divine intervention and more taken with Minaj’s manicure.
“I said, ‘I’m gonna let my nails grow, because I love those nails. I’m gonna let those nails grow,’” he told the crowd, grinning. “She’s so good. She’s been MAGA, what can I say?”
Trump Accounts Initiative
The occasion for this unlikely pairing was the rollout of the administration’s Trump Accounts program. The initiative promises a $1,000 federal contribution to every child born in lower-income zip codes between 2025 and 2028. That money gets parked in the stock market until the kid turns 18, at which point they can access it.
Minaj announced she would personally fund Trump accounts for some of her fans, pledging somewhere between $150,000 and $300,000. She offered no details on who would qualify or how the selection would work.
Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary also made an appearance, thanking Trump on behalf of small business owners everywhere. “On behalf of all the entrepreneurs in America, I’d like to thank you, Mr. President, because we create 72% of the jobs,” he said.
Once Minaj and O’Leary exited, Trump reclaimed the microphone with a quip. “A little interlude,” he said. “Much better than getting Scott Bessent up.”
A Shift in Stance
Nicki’s aura & presence during this Presidential Gag Season is incredibly established, respected, beautiful, radiating, & ethereal. There’s no force on earth that can bring her down & I love tf outta that for her. Keeping doing your thing Queen, you’ll never lose my support🙏🏾❤️ pic.twitter.com/FlLnVUDT20
— 🔱𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖊 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖏🔱 (@PrimeMinaj) January 28, 2026
For those tracking Minaj’s political evolution, Wednesday’s appearance was simply the latest stop on a journey that has accelerated rapidly in recent months.
In November, she joined U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz at the United Nations to address what she described as Christian persecution in Nigeria. In December, she turned up at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix, where she showered praise on both Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
“I have the utmost respect and admiration for our president,” she told the AmericaFest crowd. “He’s given so many people hope that there’s a chance to beat the bad guys and to win.”
She called Vance “an assassin” and said both men possess “a very uncanny ability to be someone that you relate to.”
It wasn’t always this way.
In 2020, Minaj told attendees at the Pollstar Live Conference that she would not be joining the Trump train. “I’m not gonna jump on the Trump bandwagon,” she said, pointing to the administration’s family separation policy at the southern border.
Around the same time, she posted on Instagram about her own experience as an immigrant. “I came to this country as an illegal immigrant,” she wrote. “I can’t imagine the horror of being in a strange place and having my parents stripped away from me at the age of 5. This is so scary to me. Please stop this.”
On Wednesday, standing next to the man she once criticized, Minaj had a different message.
She’s his number one fan now. And the hate only makes her love him more.
