Why the Hell Is JD Vance Quoting Nicki Minaj Now?
We bet you didn’t have this on your 2025 bingo card: Vice President JD Vance just quoted rapper Nicki Minaj defending white people.
Following Minaj’s appearance at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest this weekend, Vance took to X Monday to boast that he had finally found an actually famous person willing to be publicly associated with MAGA hate-fueled conservative politics.
“Nicki Minaj said something at Amfest that was really profound. I’m paraphrasing, but she said, ‘Just because I want little black girls to think they’re beautiful doesn’t mean I have to put down little girls with blonde hair and blue eyes,'” Vance wrote in a statement. post on Monday. “In recent years, we have all been immersed in zero-sum thinking. That’s because those who think they run the world are pitting us against each other.”
Minaj real comment These were black women who were not reproducing the discrimination they had experienced because of their appearance. “We weren’t represented and weren’t admired for our beauty. If we felt that way as black women, why would we want to do that to other women? Why would we now need to make others downplay their beauty, so we can feel – no, that’s not how it works. I don’t need someone with blonde hair and blue eyes downplaying their beauty because I know my beauty,” she declared.
It’s no surprise that this particular message stuck in Vance’s mind. The Vice President has repeatedly said commentedwithout any irony, about how he no longer wants to feel sorry for being white.
To be clear, in the United States, white households have more than three times wealth black or Hispanic households, and white men have always benefited from a majority control on the country’s politics. It’s the weakest among them – like Vance – who view the empowerment of the systemically disadvantaged as a threat.
Vance readily complains of feeling demeaned by the attitudes of “people who think they run the world,” while racist jokes of his status as the second most powerful man in the country.
Unfortunately for MAGA, Minaj is far from the perfect spokesperson. While speaking on stage at AmericaFest, the rapper gushed about the vice president: referring to Vance like an “assassin”. This wouldn’t have been notable if she was talking at the time to Erika Kirk, whose husband was murdered earlier this year. Yeah.
But other high-profile celebrities didn’t want to play ball. Sabrina CharpentierOlivia Rodrigo, and SZA have all criticized the White House for using its music to disguise its grisly policies to younger audiences.
