"Sparklers sizzled, boom-badoom-boom bass thumped, and Nicki Minaj emerged onstage at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest last month to deliver the latest plot twist in an exhausting year for politics and pop culture. The rapper-whose straight black hair reached the hem of her sleek minidress-sat down with Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, who sported medieval-princess blond braids and waves. Then Minaj tore into previous presidential administrations for being un-Christian and uncool."
""We can't let people like that be in power, you guys," she said, flaring her eyes like she does in the video for her song "Stupid Hoe." Minaj arrived in America at age 5 as an undocumented immigrant from Trinidad, and is still not, she said in 2024, an American citizen. Her music uses pornographic profanity to assert herself as a man-eating empress, and her fans-many of them queer-don pink wigs and call themselves "Barbz," after Barbie."
Nicki Minaj appeared onstage at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest amid sparklers and booming bass and sat with Erika Kirk. Minaj criticized previous presidential administrations as un-Christian and uncool and urged the audience against such leaders. Minaj arrived in America at age five as an undocumented immigrant from Trinidad and stated in 2024 that she remains not an American citizen. Her music employs pornographic profanity to project a dominant, man-eating empress persona, and many fans, including queer fans, wear pink wigs and call themselves Barbz. Her presence at a conference tied to Charlie Kirk signaled a crossover between pop culture and right-wing spectacle.
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