“After hearing the gunshots, many people yelled ‘Get down!’ which caused Nicki Minaj to start twerking. Can you believe it? She’s the only one that really understood what that meant.”
— Trump on the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. pic.twitter.com/8uFC05tQGH
— Pop Base (@PopBase) July 25, 2026
Referencing the gunman that stormed the previous dinner in April, Donald Trump made a joke about Nicki Minaj at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at the Waldorf Hotel in Washington, D.C. yesterday:
“After hearing the gunshots, many people yelled, ‘Get down!’ which caused Nicki Minaj to start twerking … Can you believe it? She’s the only one that really understood what that meant.”
Sources: 1, 2
