Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Nicki Minaj, Desperate for Sales, Thanks Donald Trump for Post Attacking Nigerians Who Are “Persecuting” Christians

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Rapper Nicki Minaj is desperate.

More than a month ago she started promoting an album that doesn’t come out until March 26th of next year.

Her sales in 2025 are at around 800,000 — mostly from streaming. She’s sold only 20,000 paid downloads or CDs.

That’s not enough for her lifesyle. So now she’s thrown in with Donald Trump. She’s been praising him recently on social media. But now she’s sent him a thank you note for an insane post about persecuted Christians.

She writes:
Reading this made me feel a deep sense of gratitude. We live in a country where we can freely worship God.
No group should ever be persecuted for practicing their religion. We don’t have to share the same beliefs in order for us to respect each other. Numerous countries all around the world are being affected by this horror & it’s dangerous to pretend we don’t notice. Thank you to The President & his team for taking this seriously.
God bless every persecuted Christian.
Let’s remember to lift them up in prayer.

Publicly turning to Trump is a decision she’s made. She’s also been dissing old friends like Jay Z. I guess we’ll see how this plays out next spring when the album drops.

Here’s what Trump wrote:

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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