Crockett Questions Minaj’s Support for Trump

U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett criticized rapper Nicki Minaj’s support for President Donald Trump in a New York interview on November 3, questioning how Minaj’s political alignment fit with her immigrant background and past comments about immigration. Crockett also said Minaj was using her public platform to promote division and serve her own interests; those were the congresswoman’s assessments, not established findings about Minaj’s motives. Crockett made the remarks during an interview with TMZ. She questioned Minaj’s support for the Trump-aligned MAGA movement, pointing to the rapper’s experience as an immigrant and her earlier criticism of the first Trump administration’s family-separation policy. Minaj was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the United States as a child. In a 2018 social-media post, she described herself as an undocumented immigrant when she arrived. Minaj has publicly supported Trump and Republican candidates. At a Michigan campaign rally on October 25, she praised Trump and encouraged attendees to support Republican candidates Mike Rogers and John James. On X, she also wrote that she was “finalizing that citizenship paperwork as we speak” in...