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Nicki Minaj’s governmental epoch conscionable got different remix — and this 1 is trending hard to the right. The rapper, erstwhile champion known for chart-toppers and pop-culture chaos, present seems afloat committed to her MAGAfication arc, implicit with anti-trans talking points, Trump-era applause, and a astonishment drive-by connected California Governor Gavin Newsom. What started arsenic a societal media swipe rapidly spiraled into a one-sided feud, with Minaj live-tweeting insults, casting Newsom arsenic a failed enactment hero, and doubling down connected rhetoric that neatly echoes the Trump administration’s culture-war playbook. On December 12, the vocalist utilized her X relationship to criticise California Governor’s pro-trans statements, calling his run strategy “one-sided” and accusing him of exploiting trans children for governmental gain. Her posts followed Newsom’s December 11 quality connected The Ezra Klein Show, wherever helium said, “I privation to spot trans kids… There’s nary politician that’s done much pro-trans authorities than I have.”Minaj’s opening salvo read: “Imagine being the feline moving connected wanting to spot trans kids. Haha. Not adjacent a trans ADULT would tally connected that. Normal adults aftermath up & deliberation they privation to spot HEALTHY, SAFE, HAPPY kids. Not Gav. The Gav Nots. GavOUT.
Send successful the adjacent guy, I’m bored.”
She went on: “Gavin is the cute lad who got everything handed to him b/c of however cute & sexy & blistery & smoking helium was. […] He thinks he’s Tom Cruise lone quality is, his adjacent ngo IS impossible. He should get different starring role.”In a 3rd station she added, “Oh Gavvy pooh, it lone gets worse from present for you, buddy,” and advised Newsom to “Get connected the nearest pitchy skis & fto that beauteous hairsbreadth stroke successful the wind.
It volition marque you happier than this contention that you volition not win.”
Minaj’s critique of Newsom came a time aft she praised Vice President J D Vance connected December 11, penning “The Vance > The Gav Nots” successful effect to Vance’s station “Nicki > Cardi.” She besides reposted an AI-generated video of herself and Vance dancing to her verse from the opus “Bang Bang.”
This is not the archetypal clip Minaj aligned with the Trump administration’s anti-trans agenda.
Last period she reposted an authoritative White House TikTok acceptable to her opus “Va Va Voom,” which touted among its achievements “No men successful women’s sports.”Newsom’s enactment for trans rights has besides drawn disapproval from the right. After the X relationship of America PAC quoted his Klein Show clip, Newsom’s property bureau replied to the relationship of Elon Musk with “Correct. We’re atrocious your girl hates you, Elon.” Musk’s trans girl Vivian Wilson has publically condemned him, and Musk himself aboriginal wrote that she “has a tragic intelligence unwellness caused by the evil woke caput microorganism you propulsion connected susceptible children” and that helium hopes she “recovers.”
