Nicki Minaj to attend White House Correspondents’ dinner

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Nicki Minaj to attend White House Correspondents’ dinner

Rapper Nicki Minaj'shigh-profile friendship with President Donald Trumphas gotten her a seat at the upcoming White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

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Minaj will attend as a guest of Fox News, which is also throwing its own VIP party before Saturday's official dinner, Fox confirmed to USA TODAY. The cocktail pre-party at the Washington Hilton will be occupied by other high-profile figures alongside Minaj, including Turning Point USA’s Erika Kirk and NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, Fox confirmed.

Minaj has stirred controversy amongst fans with her support of the president, most recently afterspeaking at a Treasury eventin January to endorse"Trump Accounts."She likewise raised eyebrows in December when she sat down with Kirk, a prominentconservative figureand the widow of Charlie Kirk, at a Turning Point USA event, where she praised both Trump andVice President JD Vancefor their "relatability."

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Trump, Nicki Minaj hold hands at DC summit

Nicki Minaj has become one of Hollywood's most outspoken Trump supporters, even calling herself his "No. 1 fan." See the rapper and singer-songwriter hold hands with President Donald Trump on stage during the U.S. Treasury Department's Trump Accounts Summit in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 28, 2026.

Self-described as Trump's "number one fan,"Minaj said in January she has the "utmost respect and admiration for our president." A Trinidadian native, Minaj's citizenship status and her endorsement of theTrump "gold cards"led some disgruntled fans tostart a petition after her Turning Point appearancein an effort to get her deported.

Minaj publicly criticized Trump's immigration policies during his first term,saying in 2018 she had come to the U.S. "illegally"as a child and that she couldn't imagine the "horror of being in a strange place & having my parents stripped away from me at the age of 5."

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She became vocal about her pivot to a more pro-MAGA viewpoint early in Trump's second presidency,telling Katie Miller, host of the "Katie Miller Podcast,"that she felt the president had been subject to "bullying."

"A lot of that bullying, and the smear campaigns and all of the lying, I felt that that had been done to me for so many years," she told Miller. "And I was watching it in real time happen to someone else, and I didn't think he deserved it."

The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, at which Trump will appear, is set to take place on April 25.

Contributing: Jay Stahl, USA TODAY

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