{"id":264008,"date":"2026-09-19T21:49:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/nicki-minaj-addresses-criticism-over-supporting-donald-trump-says-i-just-love-him\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T21:49:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:49:57","slug":"nicki-minaj-addresses-criticism-over-supporting-donald-trump-says-i-just-love-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/nicki-minaj-addresses-criticism-over-supporting-donald-trump-says-i-just-love-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj Addresses Criticism Over Supporting Donald Trump, Says &#8216;I Just Love Him&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2286934\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/nicki-minaj\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Nicki Minaj<\/strong><\/a> stands by her decision to support President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday (September 18), the 43-year-old \u201cSuper Freaky Girl\u201d rapper appeared on FOX News Channel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FoxNews\/status\/2101102291332080074\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Ingraham Angle<\/em> <\/a>where she chatted about working with the <strong>Trump<\/strong> administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am honored to be able to have an opportunity to work with this administration and to work with President Trump,\u201d <strong>Nicki<\/strong> said. \u201cHe has inspired many people, not just me. And he\u2019s \u2014 he\u2019s fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s not just smart, and, you know, he\u2019s not just the president,\u201d  she continued. \u201cBut he\u2019s also someone that I can relate to, someone that, you know, every time I see him, or every time I see him speaking to other people, he\u2019s just himself. He\u2019s very \u2014 he\u2019s very grounded. It\u2019s easy to connect with him. It\u2019s easy to feel like he heard you, he understands you. And I just \u2014 I just love him. And I\u2019m not going to ever make excuses for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"iframe-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I just love him.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NICKIMINAJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@NICKIMINAJ<\/a> gets candid about her relationship with President Donald Trump, saying she is &#8220;honored&#8221; to work with his administration and explaining why she feels a personal connection with the president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s not just smart. And he&#8217;s not just the president.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BswXo3F2SV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BswXo3F2SV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FoxNews\/status\/2101102291332080074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">September 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Host <strong>Laura Ingraham<\/strong> then asked <strong>Nicki<\/strong> if she had anything to \u201csay to the critics of you for working with the sitting U.S. President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAbsolutely nothing,\u201d she quickly responded. \u201cI don\u2019t know why I should.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rapper\u2019s new comments come after it was announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/09\/01\/nicki-minaj-lands-new-role-with-trump-administration-will-judge-1-million-business-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she will be judging a new reality competition series<\/a> that the <strong>Trump<\/strong> administration is working on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nicki Minaj <\/strong>previously revealed when she began quietly supporting <strong>Donald Trump <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/14\/nicki-minaj-reveals-when-she-started-quietly-supporting-trump-why-she-initially-stayed-silent-what-made-her-speak-out-publicly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and explained what ultimately prompted her to speak out publicly.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/nicki-minaj\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicki Minaj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/politics\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/09\/19\/nicki-minaj-addresses-criticism-over-supporting-donald-trump-says-i-just-love-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Getty Nicki Minaj stands by her decision to support President Donald Trump. On Friday (September 18), the 43-year-old \u201cSuper Freaky Girl\u201d rapper appeared on FOX News Channel\u2019s The Ingraham Angle where she chatted about working with the Trump administration. \u201cI am honored to be able to have an opportunity to work with this administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}