Nicki Minaj backs Trump even after Democrats took both chambers of Congress, and she is not softening her stance. The rapper, who spent months as one of MAGA’s most visible celebrity supporters, returned to X with a defiant message after a midterm election that amounted to a nationwide rejection of the president and his party.
After a short silence once the results came in, Minaj posted a 15-point list the following day. Her points ranged from the blunt assertion that Trump remains president to a suggestion that people should now wake up. The tone was combative, but it did not include any retreat from the political company she has kept this year.
A Record of Endorsements That Mostly Lost
Minaj put her name behind several Republican candidates during the midterms, and most of them were defeated. In Michigan, Republican Mike Rogers lost his Senate bid to Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. In the same state, Republican gubernatorial candidate John James lost to Democrat Jocelyn Benson. In New York, Republican Bruce Blakeman failed to unseat incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul.
One prominent exception was Byron Donalds, a staunch Trump supporter who won Florida’s governor’s race. Minaj also congratulated Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna for winning Florida’s 13th Congressional District, though the Associated Press had not yet called that race when the post went up.
The mismatch between her endorsements and the outcomes did not produce any public second-guessing. Instead, Minaj used the post to amplify familiar themes and to promote Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot, which she described as a phenomenal product that had significantly improved her life. She also needled the platform’s users by noting that Musk remains a trillionaire while they continue posting on his app.
Campaign Trail and Legal Trouble
Minaj’s midterm activity followed a period of open alignment with Trump. In October, she flew on Air Force One with him to a rally and conducted a mock interview with the president. She praised him as a businessman and a great guy and claimed he had won three elections, though he has won two.
On Election Day, while Minaj appeared outside a polling station in New Hampshire, her former lawyers returned to court with renewed claims that she had not paid a legal bill stemming from a copyright lawsuit. The amount is expected to exceed $300,000.
The sequence captures the position Minaj now occupies: a celebrity endorser whose political bets largely failed, facing fresh legal pressure, and still publicly committed to the bandwagon she joined earlier in the year.
